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verb

Intercede v. t. To be, to come, or to pass, between; to separate. (Obs.)

Intercede v. i. (past & past part. interceded; pres. part. interceding)

To pass between; to intervene. (Obs.) "He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived."

To act between parties with a view to reconcile differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead in behalf of another; to mediate; usually followed by with and for or on behalf of; as, I will intercede with him for you. "I to the lords will intercede, not doubting Their favorable ear."

Synonyms: To mediate; arbitrate. See Interpose.

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"Intercede" Quotes from Famous Books

... account, and to ascertain whether the child merely performed parrot-fashion, the company were especially anxious to hear the forbidden reading. Young Lawrence's dutiful scruples, however, were not overcome until all present had promised to intercede on his behalf and obtain for him his father's forgiveness. As he turned to the interdicted page a slip of paper fell from the book. A gentleman picked it up and read aloud—'Tom, mind you don't touch Satan.' It was some time before the astonished boy could be induced to proceed; yet ...

— Art in England - Notes and Studies • Dutton Cook

... deliberately planned to make him do that kind of thing for me. I pulled him out of the newspaper office and made it possible for him to study law, just that I might put my hand on him when he could be useful. Please understand that I'm not saying this in the hope that you will intercede to bring him back. Nothing can bring him back. I wouldn't let him come back to me if he would starve without ...

— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson

... endures. I will not have my people blinded and stupefied by priests. I will suffer no other king in Prussia. I alone will be king. These proud priests may decide, in silence and humility, to teach their churches and intercede for them; but let them once attempt to play the role of small popes, and to exalt themselves as the only possessors of the key to heaven, then they shall find in me an adversary who will prove to them that the key is false with which ...

— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach

... generous and rejoicing thing an alien and awful quality: the quality of torture. Its presence is life; its touch is death. Therefore, it is always necessary to have an intermediary between ourselves and this dreadful deity; to have a priest to intercede for us with the god of life and death; to send an ambassador to the fire. That priest is the poker. Made of a material more merciless and warlike than the other instruments of domesticity, hammered on the anvil and born itself in the flame, the poker ...

— A Miscellany of Men • G. K. Chesterton

... and absolute triumph of their opponents. Leicester's first use of the familiarity to which the Queen had so publicly restored him was to ask her commands concerning Varney's offence, "although," he said, "the fellow deserves nothing from me but displeasure, yet, might I presume to intercede—" ...

— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

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