- (n.) A coming between; intervention; meeting.
- (v.t.) To come between.
- (v.i.) To come between or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- (v.i.) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- (v.i.) To occur, fall or come between, points of time or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
- (v.i.) To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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