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third-person singular simple present intercedes, present participle interceding, simple past and past participle interceded
(intransitive) To plead on someone else's behalf. examples
(intransitive) To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate. quotations examples
I to the Lords will intercede, not doubting / Thir favourable ear,
1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], page 57
To pass between; to intervene. quotations examples
He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived.
1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ