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To come between, or to be between, persons or things;
-- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe
and Africa. |
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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. |
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To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel. |
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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. |
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To come between. |
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A coming between; intervention; meeting. |
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