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or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state (Theol.), the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body. -- Intermediate ter…

In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.

The act of coming between; intervention; interposition. Burke.

A mediator.

Intermediate. [R.] Cudworth.

Intermediate space. [R.]

To intermeddle; to intermix. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

Between members or limbs; as, intermembral homology, the correspondence of the limbs with each other.

Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.

The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation. T. Warton.

To mention among other things, or casually or incidentally. [Obs.]

Within the mesentery; as, the intermesenteric, or aortic, plexus.

Between the metacarpal bones.

Between the metatarsal bones.

An interlude; an intermede. See Intermede.

To flash or shine between or among. [R.] Blount.

A shining between or among. [R.] Smart.

Reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings. That wild interminable waste of waves. Grainger.

The state of being endless.