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/ˌɪntərvˈin/ /ˌɪnərvˈin/ Listen

verb

Intervene v. t. To come between. (R.) "Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates."

Intervene v. i. (past & past part. intervened; pres. part. intervening)

To come between, or to be between, persons or things; followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

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.

To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.

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.

noun

Intervene n. A coming between; intervention; meeting. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intervene" Quotes from Famous Books

... strange threatening sound as she ran, such as one would use in driving ducks out of a garden—"B-r-r-r-r-r—!" and pawing with black-gloved hands. The policemen were closing in from the sides to intervene. The little old lady struck like a projectile upon the resounding chest of the foremost of these, and then Ann Veronica had got past and was ...

— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells

... sire, if he but give her much wealth.... Wealth confounds our stock. Marvel not that the stock of our folk is tarnished, for the good is mingling with the base." A century later eugenics was discussed in some detail by Plato, who suggested that the state intervene to mate the best with the best, and the worst with the worst; the former should be encouraged to have large families, and their children should be reared by the government, while the children of the unfit were to be, as he says, "put away ...

— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

... not the power of self-control perpetually in exercise, and the good mental help of prayer habitually at hand to be relied on, he is in danger, and may fall into sin or even crime, at any hour, unless the Highest Power intervene. But, if the senses are trained to resist the first inclinations to unchastity, by the eye that will not look and the ear that will not listen, then the doors of the mind are kept closed against the enemy, and even ...

— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... and we are both of the opinion that as long as African slavery exists at the South, France and England cannot recognize the Confederacy. They do not demand its instant abolition. But if you put it in course of abatement and final abolishment through a term of years—I do not care how many—we can intervene to some purpose. As matters stand we dare not go before a European congress with ...

— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

... and Powers I invoke to intervene, When the adversary lowers On my path, with purpose keen Of vengeance black and bloody On my soul and my body; I bind these Powers to come Against druid counsel dark, The black craft of Pagandom, And the false heresiarch, The spells of wicked women, And the wizard's ...

— A Celtic Psaltery • Alfred Perceval Graves

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