1. The act of intervening; interposition.
Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane.
Holder. 2. Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs
of another; mediation.
Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power.
Sir W. Temple. 3. (Civil Law) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a
party to a suit pending between other parties.
Interventor
(In`ter*ven"tor) n. [L.: cf. F. interventeur.] One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles.
Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers.
Coleman.
Interventricular
(In`ter*ven*tric"u*lar) a. (Anat.) Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition
of the heart.
Intervenue
(In`ter*ven"ue) n. [See Intervene, Avenue.] Interposition. [Obs.] Sir H. Blount.
Intervert
(In`ter*vert") v. t. [L. intervertere; inter between + vertere to turn.] To turn to another course
or use. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
