INTERCEDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intercede mean? 

• INTERCEDE (verb)
  The verb INTERCEDE has 1 sense:

1. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

  Familiarity information: INTERCEDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERCEDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they intercede    ... he / she / it intercedes   
Past simple: interceded   
Past participle: interceded   
-ing form: interceding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

arbitrate; intercede; intermediate; liaise; mediate

Context example:

He mediated a settlement

Hypernyms (to "intercede" is one way to...):

negociate; negotiate; talk terms (discuss the terms of an arrangement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue intercede
Sam wants to intercede with Sue

Derivation:

intercession (the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.))

 Context examples 

In this manner, not only shall my own eternal salvation be secured, but thine also, for I shall never cease to intercede for thee.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They implored me to let them; and when I said it was Dr. Van Helsing's wish that either he or I should sit up, they asked me quite piteously to intercede with the "foreign gentleman."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I entreated this illustrious person, to intercede in my behalf with his majesty, for leave to depart; which he accordingly did, as he was pleased to tell me, with regret: for indeed he had made me several offers very advantageous, which, however, I refused, with expressions of the highest acknowledgment.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He had before served me a scurvy trick, which set the queen a-laughing, although at the same time she was heartily vexed, and would have immediately cashiered him, if I had not been so generous as to intercede.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I remember, when I was once interceding with the emperor for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had received by order and ran away with; and happening to tell his majesty, by way of extenuation, that it was only a breach of trust, the emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer as a defence the greatest aggravation of the crime; and truly I had little to say in return, farther than the common answer, that different nations had different customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)