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l observation and decision of the judge upon the testimony of his own senses, without the intervention of a jury. Abbott.

The act of interceding; intercession; intervention. [R.] Bp. Reynolds.

The act of coming between; intervention; interference. [Obs.]

The state of being between; a coming or lying between or among; intervention; also, that which lies between. England and Scotland is divided only by the interjacency of the Tweed. Sir M. Hale.

Interposition; intervention. Derham.

In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.

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

Intervention; interposition. [Obs.] Heylin.

The act of interposing; interposition; intervention.

The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to lose the idea of one part. Dryden.

A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Intervention; interposition. [R.]

nything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention. The soul [acts] by the mediation of these passions. South.

s; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.

The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.

Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon.

iduals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.

ingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate. Center of percussion. See under Center. -- Percussion bullet, a bullet containing a substance which is exploded by percussion; an explosive bullet. -- Perc…

Done in person; without the intervention of another. "Personal communication." Fabyan. The immediate and personal speaking of God. White.

designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.