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Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.

To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend. Pray to the gods to intermit the plague. Shak.

To make international; to cause to affect the mutual relations of two or more nations; as, to internationalize a principle of law, or a philanthropic enterprise.

Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted.

reaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course. Shak.

Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

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.

e or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot. Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. Milton.

To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another.

The cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks.

ction on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains. Fuller.

that arguments advanced by his adversary in opposition to him are really favorable to his cause.

An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.

e into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.

ate of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement. All things are mixed, and causes blended, by mutual involutions. Glanvill.

To cause to become or appear vulgar. [Obs.] Daniel.

which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. Addison.

To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.

To conform, or cause to conform, to the religion of Islam.

To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle. Shelley.