intercede

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INTERCE'DE, verb intransitive [Latin intercedo; inter and cedo; literally, to move or pass between.] 1. To pass between. He supposes that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age in which he lived. 2. To mediate; to interpose; to make intercession; to act between parties with a view to reconcile those who differ or contend; usually followed by with. 3. To please in favor of one.
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