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An intermediate or connecting link.

An intermediate act or decree before final decision. Ayliffe.

Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during the progress of an action.

Intermediate. [R.] Cudworth.

Intermediate space. [R.]

To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the law of that part of the series.

of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series.

To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace. Pope.

One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties. Shak.

An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another. Mitford.

ct of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.

Of or pertaining to interstices; intermediate; within the tissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues of animals or plants.

t the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation. Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power. Sir W. Temple.

One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers. Coleman.

Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.

Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate admission. South.

Growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules.

A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar.

Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension. Sagaci…

octrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.