Intercede

//ɪntə(ɹ)ˈsiːd// verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To plead on someone else's behalf. intransitive

    "Our Lady intercedes"

  2. 2
    act between parties with a view to reconciling differences wordnet
  3. 3
    To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate. intransitive

    "I to the Lords will intercede, not doubting / Thir favourable ear,"

  4. 4
    To pass between; to intervene.

    "He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived."

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act betweenarbitratearbitratebargainchimechip

Example

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"Then I, with stammering accents, intercede, / and, sore perplext, these broken words outthrow / to calm her transport:"

Etymology

First attested in c. 1570. From Middle French intercéder, from Latin intercēdō, from inter- (“between”) + cēdō (“I go”) (English cede), literally “to (act as) go-between”.

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