单词 | intervene |
释义 | intervenen. in Johnson (whence in later dictionaries), founded on an obvious misprint for interview n. in one of its 17th cent. spellings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018). intervenev. 1. intransitive. To come in as something extraneous, in the course of some action, state of things, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > be extrinsic or external [verb (intransitive)] > attach or be added to something or intervene knit1571 intervene1605 advene1651 father1760 accrete1821 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. E2 Those errours and vanities, which haue interueyned amongst the studies themselues of the learned. View more context for this quotation 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. viii. 122 When during the discourse the partie or subject interveneth, and there ensueth a sudden silence, it is usually said, Lupus est in fabulâ . View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 222 For while so near each other thus all day Our task we choose, what wonder if so near Looks intervene and smiles. View more context for this quotation 1799 W. Wordsworth Ruth xxiv In his worst pursuits..sometimes there did intervene Pure hopes of high intent. 1825 W. Scott Talisman i, in Tales Crusaders III. 10 Labour and danger were doomed to intervene ere the horse or horseman reached the desired spot. 2. Of an event or occurrence: To happen or take place between other events, or between certain points in time; to occur in the meanwhile. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > intervene or come in the course of middlec1384 to come in between1566 intercura1575 intervenea1610 interpass1613 a1610 J. Sempill in S. Ballatis (1872) 242 Suche strange events hes interveinit sensyne That I dare not avow [etc.]. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 81 Some of which were upon a certain Occasion, which then interven'd, destroyed. 1784 New Spectator No. 20. 4/2 It so intervened, that Capt. T—— was left, unprotected, to the three heroes. 1828 C. Lamb Poor Relations in Elia 2nd Ser. 157 Some argument had intervened between them. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iii. 12 If some cleaning of the Augis stable have not intervened for a long while. 3. a. Of a person, party, or state: To come between in action; to interfere, interpose; also, to act as intermediary; †to take a share in (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (intransitive)] scot?c1225 deal1297 partc1300 to take partc1384 departc1440 skair1462 impart1471 participate1531 communicate1541 to part stakes (also shares)1553 boot1554 partake1561 intercommune1601 copart1637 to go sharers1644 to run shares1644 intervene1646 go1653 to go a share1655 to share and share alike (formerly also like)1656 to go shares1658 to go share and share alikea1661 to go snips (or snip)1671 to go snacks (or snack)1693 to club one's shares1814 to cut in1890 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > act in another's business or intervene [verb (intransitive)] to step in1474 to go (etc.) between the bark and the tree1546 to make in1575 intermediate1610 interposea1616 to put in1631 intervene1646 to strike ina1715 to wade in1905 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > find means to do something [verb (intransitive)] > act as intermediate means to go betweenc1320 to come between ——?1492 intercede1578 factor1621 intermediate1624 trample1624 mediate1630 intervene1646 to come in between ——1676 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 193 These Inventions are most quick..and full of life, wherein there doe not intervene any other persons but mortall. 1669 W. Temple Wks. (1731) II. 197 In all the Negotiations where he has intervened for eight or nine Months past. 1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 88 When his own brother..came to intervene in the affair with very unbecoming menaces. 1862 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles (ed. 7) xxix. 396 He intervenes with mighty help, but not till every other help..has seemed utterly to have failed. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §7. 664 A formal invitation to William to intervene in arms..was signed by these leaders. 1880 J. F. Bright Hist. Eng. III. (1884) 1397 It was necessary that England should intervene with clean hands, and as the friend of both parties [Greece and Turkey]. 1883 Wharton's Law-lexicon (ed. 7) 429 The Queen's proctor, or any other person, may intervene in any suit, for the dissolution of marriage, on the ground that the parties have been guilty of collusion, or that material facts have been suppressed. b. Of a thing: To come in or between so as to affect, modify, or prevent a result, action, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > act in another's business or intervene [verb (intransitive)] > of a thing to come in between1566 intervene1649 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [verb (intransitive)] > hinder by interference interrupt1412 intervene1649 to break in1657 intercedea1661 to queer the pitch1846 to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery1907 to gum (up) the works1932 to throw a spanner in the works1934 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iv. vi. 458 Many things may intervene betwixt this engagement..and that full and compleate solemnization, which may breake off the match. 1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 54 The motions of Winds..are..in right lines; if nothing intervene to check and retard their course. 1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple (ed. 2) II. 125 People who let their Pride intervene with their Tenderness…to make them quarrel with their Friends. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. xi. 285 Between our intentions and our practices, our little and our great passions may intervene. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vi. 173 The materialising conceptions of the writer do yet evidently intervene..to hinder a perfectly faithful mirroring of the thought of Jesus. 4. a. Of a thing: To be placed or situated locally between other things; to come or lie between. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be interjacent [verb (intransitive)] relate1490 intercede1578 interject1578 interpose1615 interval1630 interline1633 mediate1641 intervenec1709 intercalate1960 c1709 [implied in: M. Prior Charity 37 As through the artist's intervening glass Our eye observes the distant planets pass. (at intervening adj. 1)]. 1726 J. Dyer Grongar Hill in New Misc. 84 No Clouds, no Vapours intervene. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 55 Distant climates, betwixt which and Siberia mountains above nine thousand feet high intervene. 1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 229 Between the next two cantos intervenes the well known cradle song. 1882 J. D. Dana Elem. Geol. ii. 206 Beds of shale in many places intervene. b. Of space or time: To extend or lie between places or events. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [verb (intransitive)] > intervene intercede1578 intervene1621 intermediate1652 1621 Ld.-Kpr. Williams in Fortescue P. (Camden) 165 The intervening of eight dayes well permitting that the Certificate may bee brought from Exeter. a1732 F. Atterbury Serm. Several Occas. (1734) I. 127 A greater Tract of Time than intervened, from the first building of their Temple by Solomon, to its final Destruction by Titus. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 180 The vast spaces which intervene between the celestiall luminaries. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiv. 175 Scarcely five minutes..intervened between every two successive peals. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > intervene intervene1588 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by interference mareOE disturbc1386 annoyc1405 interrupta1420 ail1499 blent1530 forelay1571 intervene1588 intervent1600 interpose1615 disrupt1817 derange1848 to put a crimp in (also into, on)1889 crab1899 the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be or make interjacent [verb (transitive)] > be interjacent between interpose1615 obviate1705 intercede1728 intervene1839 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. H j Pape pius quintus..being interueneit by daith, left ye same to pape gregore his successor to be accompleseit. 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 234 So as there are fifteen dayes intervene each Writ. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 232 Nothing ought to intervene a fundamental order of the House. 1839 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 569/2 Woodlands of birch..and hazel, that meander through the valley, intervening the different estates with natural sylvan marches. Derivatives interˈvening n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] interventionc1425 interposition1462 striking1530 intercourse1586 entermise1600 intervening1605 intermitter1611 interposal1625 interveniencea1627 intermission1628 interveniency1660 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh3v Many parts of Nature can neither be inuented..nor demonstrated..without the aide and interueyning of the Mathematicks. View more context for this quotation 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. iii. sig. Bb2 Prevented by the intervening of Eusebius. 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