单词 | intercession |
释义 | intercessionn. I. Senses relating to interceding on the part of another. 1. a. The action of interceding or pleading on behalf of (rarely against) another; entreaty, solicitation, or prayer for another; mediation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [noun] erndinga1000 mediationa1387 advocacyc1390 mediacya1425 meanc1450 moyen1454 interposition1462 mean1465 myance?a1513 advocation1532 intercession1534 advocateship?1555 intercessionment1593 interceding1600 intermise1612 means-making1617 intermission1647 interposal1687 spoke1867 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Rom. xi. 2 What the scripture sayth by the mouth of Helias, how he maketh intercession to God agaynst Israel. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxliv I will send to the kyng, and make humble intercession for your pardon. 1588 D. Rogers in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 145 Certaine goodes..confiscated the day before I came, were by my quicke intercession all released. 1659 T. Willsford Architectonice 36 I will here interpose a few lines betwixt them and the copy, as an intercession for the Printer, who is less culpable. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 86 It was upon my seeming Intercession, that he gave Consent. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. viii. 68 He come back to make intercession for his sister. b. spec. in religious use: Intercessory prayer. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > collect > [noun] precesOE bidding prayerc1175 collect?c1225 suffrage(s) of prayer(s)?a1425 suffragec1450 intercession?a1513 suffrages1532 church collect1624 interparling1647 bid-prayer1691 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 100 Pray now for him..And for his saull mak intercessioun Vnto the lord that hes him bocht so deir. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. vii. 25 He ever liveth to make intercession for vs. 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) 1 Tim. ii. 1 I exhorte therfore that..prayers, supplicacions, intercessions, and gevynge of thankes be had for all men. 1645 J. Ussher Body of Divin. (1647) 350 We are also bound to pray like~wise for others; which kinde of prayer is called Intercession. 1729 W. Law Serious Call xxi. 411 Intercession is a great and necessary part of christian Devotion. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. iv. 377 Justinian [made] use of the intercession of the virgin. 1848 R. I. Wilberforce Incarnation (1852) ix. 214 We are to address God only through Him whose Intercession as man is the ground of our hope. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty > pleading or urging (a cause, etc.) soliciting1429 pleadingc1450 intercession?a1513 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 40 Thair cwmis ȝoung monkis..Thai ar so humill of intercessioun, All mercyfull women thair eirandis grantis. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xlvv He was content at his intercession to departe. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. xv. 296 Unbuttoning his Coat, at the Intercession of the Company. View more context for this quotation II. In other senses, representing ancient Latin intercessio. 2. Roman History. The action of interposing a veto: cf. intercede v. 1. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > veto > legislative or political > action of vetoing intercession1574 interceding1600 vetoing1832 1574 J. Baret Aluearie I 171 To make Intercession, to let, intercedo. 1747 C. Middleton Rom. Senate 160 The general law of these intercessions was, that any magistrate might inhibit the acts of his equal, or inferior. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Intercession,..was used in antient Rome, for the act of a tribune of the people, or other magistrate, by which he inhibited the acts of other magistrates; or even in the case of the tribunes, the decrees of the senate. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 202/1 In this year [ b.c. 394] we meet with the first instance of the intercession (veto) of one tribune rendering the resolution of his colleagues void. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] interventure1578 intercourse1589 intercession1605 interjacency1646 interventiona1650 interveniency1660 interjacence1864 betweenness1892 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. v. 20 Whose extreames, to wit, fixed and volatile, of the sulphurus salt or the niterus..are coupled together by intercession. 1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1707) iii. 30 The Bones..and the Flesh..are not joined together but by the Intercession of Membranes. 4. Roman Law. (See quot. 1875.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > assumption of liability for another's debt intercession1875 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 399 Intercession is the assumption of liability for the debt of another person by negotiation or contract with his creditor. 5. = intercessation n.; intermission. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] steadc1000 leathc1175 abiding1340 broklinga1400 pausation1422 pausing1440 interceasingc1450 suspensing?1504 suspending1524 intermission1526 leathing1535 suspensationc1571 intercession1572 suspense1584 abeyance1593 suspension1603 recession1606 interruption1607 recess1620 intercision1625 intercessation1659 intermittency1662 pretermission1677 break1689 cess1703 intermittence1796 1572 Latimer's Serm. Lord's Prayer iii. 8 We must call upon God without intercession. 1572 Latimer Serm. Lincoln iii. 87 We must pray at all times without intercession [1562 intermission in both cases]. 1661 R. Baxter Accompt Proc. Commissioners i. 7 Whence are caused many unnecessary intercessions and abruptions. 1790 Owen's Expos. Hebrews (rev. ed.) III. 394 There was an intercession [1680 Intercision] of its administrations for seventy years. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † intercessionv. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To make intercession. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > intercede or use influence on someone's behalf [verb (intransitive)] ernde1225 bemean1464 intercess1556 intercession1593 intercessionate1593 intercede1606 interposea1616 mediate1616 superexpostulate1647 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 24v Violently, eagerly haue I intercessioned vnto her, to gather herselfe vnto mee. 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