intercede

To plead on someone else's behalf.

Verb

  1. To plead on someone else's behalf.
    • Our Lady intercedes

    Synonyms: intercess

  2. To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.
    • I to the Lords will intercede, not doubting / Thir favourable ear, - 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn]...
  3. To pass between; to intervene.
    • He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived. - 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ:

Origin

First attested in c. 1570. From Middle French intercéder, from Latin intercēdō, from inter- (“between”) + cēdō (“I go”) (English cede), literally “to (act as) go-between”.

Forms

intercedes interceding interceded

Related

intercedent intercession intercessionary intercessor intercessory