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Occurring between or among, or common to, different denominations; as, interdenominational fellowship or belief.

Situated between teeth; as, an interdental space, the space between two teeth in a gear wheel.

The space between two dentils. Gwilt.

Mutual dependence. "The interdependence of virtue and knowledge." M. Arnold.

Mutual dependence; as, interdependency of interests. De Quincey.

Mutually dependent.

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. Charged not to touch the interdicted tree. Milton.

The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict. The truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accurst. Shak.

Having the power to prohibit; as, an interdictive sentence. Milton.

Belonging to an interdiction; prohibitory.

Between the fingers or toes; as, interdigital space.

To interweave. [R.]

The state of interdigitating; interdigital space. Owen.

The open space between the inner and outer shells of a dome or cupola of masonry.

An intertie.

Between the epimeral plates of insects and crustaceans.

Coming between the equinoxes. Summer and winter I have called interequinoctial intervals. F. Balfour.

To interest or affect. [Obs.] Hooker.

Interest. [Obs.] Spenser.

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work. To love our native country . . . to be interested in its concerns is natural to all men. Dryden. A goddess who used to interest he…