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INTERLUCATION,/ [from inter, Lat. between, and 
lux, light.] The aft of lopping off branches to let in 
light. 
INTERLU'CENT, adj. Shining between. 
INTERLUDE, f. [inter and ludcts, Lat.] Something 
played at the intervals of feftivity; a farce.—The enemies 
of Socrates hired Ariftophanes-to perfonate him on the 
ftage, and, by the infinuations of thofe interludes, conveyed 
a hatred of him into the people. Government of the Tongue. 
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes ; 
When monarch reafon fleeps, this mimic wakes. Dryden. 
An entertainment exhibited on the theatre between the 
afts of a play, to amufe the fpeftators while the aftors 
Cake breath and drift their drefs, or to give time for chang¬ 
ing the feenes and decorations. In the ancient tragedy, 
the chorus fang the interludes, to fhow the intervals be¬ 
tween the afts. Ariftotle and Horace give it for a rule, 
that the interludes fliould coniilt of fongs built on the 
principal parts of the drama. 
INTER LU'ENCY, f [interluo, Lat.] Water interpo¬ 
lated ; interpofition of a flood.—Thofe parts of Afia and 
America, which are now disjoined by the interluency of the 
lea, might have been formerly contiguous. Hale. 
INTERLU'NAR, or Interlu'nary, adj. [inter and 
Inna, Lat.] Belonging to the time when the moon, about- 
to change, is invifible.—We add the two Egyptian days 
in every month, the interlunary and plenilunary exemp¬ 
tions. Broun. 
The fun to me is dark, 
And filent as the moon, 
When fhe defects the night, 
Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Milton. 
INTERLU'NIUM, /. The fpace of time about the 
change in which the moon is invifible. 
INTERMAR'RIAGE, J'. Marriage between two fa¬ 
milies, where each takes one and gives one.—Becaufe the 
alliances and intermarriages, among fo lVnall a people, might 
jobftruft juffice^ they have a foreigner for judge of St. 
Marino. Addifon. 
To INTERMAR'RY, ». n. To marry fome of each fa¬ 
mily with the other.—About the middle of the fourth 
century from the building of Rome, it was declared law¬ 
ful for nobles and plebeians to intermarry. Swift. 
INTERMAR'RYING, /. The aft of marrying fome 
of one family into another. 
INTERME'AN, f. [from inter, Lat. between, and 
mean.'] A mean between two. Not much fed. Cole. 
INTERMEA'TION, f. [from inter, between, and meo, 
to pafs.] The aft of flowing between. Scott. 
To INTERMEDDLE, v. n. [inter and meddle.] To in- 
terpofe officioufly.—The praftice of Spain hath been by 
war, and by conditions or treaty, to intermeddle with fo¬ 
reign ftates, and declare themfeives proteclors-general of 
catholics. Bacon. 
To INTERMEDDLE, v. a. [entremeler, Fr.] To inter¬ 
mix ; to mingle. This is perhaps mifprinted for inter- 
fuelled. —Many other adventures are intermeddled ; as the 
love of Britomart, and the virtuoufnefs of Belphtebe. 
Spen/er. 
INTERMEDDLER,yi [from intermeddle .] One that 
interpofes officioufly ; one that thrufts himfelf into buli- 
nefs to which he has no right.—There’s hardly a greater 
pelt to government and families, than officious tale-bearers, 
and bufy inter meddlers. L'EJlrange. 
Shall ftrangers, faucy intermeddlers, fay, 
Thus far, and thus, are you allow’d to punifli ? A. Phillips. 
INTERMEDDLING, f. The aft of interpofing. 
INTERMEDIACY,/ [from intermediate.] Interpofi- 
tion ; intervention. An unauthorifed word .—In birds the 
auditory nerve is aft’efted by only the intermediacy of co¬ 
lumella. Derham. 
INTERMEDIAL, adj. [ inter and medius , Lat.] In¬ 
tervening j lying between} intervenient.—The love of 
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God makes a man temperate in the midft of feafts, and is 
aftive enough without any intermedial appetites. Taylor. 
INTERMEDIATE, adj. [inter mediat, Fr. inter and 
medius, Lat.] Intervening; interpbfed; holding the mid¬ 
dle place or degree between two extremes.—Thofe gene? 
ral natures, which Hand between the neareft and molt re¬ 
mote, are called intermediate. Watts. 
INTERMEDIATELY, adv. By way of intervention. 
INTERMEDIUM, f. [La'cin.] A fpace between ; a 
diflance between. 
To INTERMELL', v. a. [entremeler, Fr.] To mix ; to 
mingle. Not in ufe .—By occafion hereof many other ad¬ 
ventures are intermeUed , but rather as accidents than in¬ 
tendments. Spen/er. 
INTERMEL'LING, f. Mixing, mingling. 
INTERNMENT, / [enterrement, Fr. from inter.] Burial; 
fepulture.—Here in England the interments of the dead 
were anciently far out of all towns or cities. Weever. 
We find inftances both in ancient and modern hiitory 
of wives and Haves being interred along with the body of 
a deceafed prince or great man. Herodotus, fpeaking of 
the Scythians on the Boryffhenes, (Dnieper,) flays that, on 
the death of their king, one of his concubines, his cup¬ 
bearer, cook, purveyor, valet, &c. together with horfes 
and golden cups, were interred along with him. We are 
told the fame thing by Lucian. The Romans, at the fu¬ 
nerals of great men, facrificed a number of prifoners, who 
were obliged to fight in Angle combat till none of them 
remained. Caefar relates, that, among the Gauls, the foi- 
durii lliared with their patrons in all the conveniences of 
life and the bitternefsof death. In another place he fays, 
that the cuftom of burning the fervants and deareft cli¬ 
ents of great men at their funerals, together with other 
tilings, had eeafed not long before that period. The an¬ 
cient Danes, to fliow their refpeft for the dead, caufed 
wives to be buried alive with their hufbands. We are af- 
fured by Dalin the hiftorian, that the fame praftice prevail¬ 
ed alfo in old Sweden. We are informed by De Guignes 
that it was cuftomary among the Honi-Re, a Turkifii na¬ 
tion, to inter with their hufbands thofe wives who had 
brought them no children ; and, even at prefent, the wo¬ 
men in the Eaff Indies fometimes burn themfeives along 
with their deceafed hufbands. See the article Hindoo- 
stan, vol. x. p. 135. Marco Polo relates, that, when the 
khan of the great moguls was conveyed to the place of 
interment, all thofe who met the proceffion on the road 
were put to death, in order that they might ferve the great 
khan in the other world. In the barrows, which were the 
burying-places of the old moguls, there are found fome¬ 
times around the body, lying in the middle of them, other 
bodies, which probably were put to death at the funeral. 
It was cuftomary among the Jakuts, whole anceftors ferved 
in the armies of the mogul khans before they were fub- 
jefted to the Ruffian government, that one of the fa¬ 
vourite domeitics of the deceafed fliould burn himfelf, with 
every mark of joy, in a particular fire made for the purpofe, 
that lie might ferve his mailer in the other world. This 
praftice muff have been cuftomary, alfo, among the Man- 
choo Tartars ; for Duhalde fays, that Schnu-tehi, the 
founder of the family now on the throne of China, after 
lie had loll his fon and princefs, required that thirty per- 
fons fhould expofe themfeives to voluntary death in order 
to appeafe the fouls of the deceafed ; and that Cham-hi, 
his fucceffor, had taken a great deal of pains to abolifh 
this cuftom. Among the Afghans, a piratical people on 
the borders of Perfia, and the inhabitants of the Philip¬ 
pine iflands, a fimilar cuftom prevailed. At the interment 
of the kings of Whidah and Benin, a great many perlons 
of both lexes are thrown into the grave alive. Thefe 
kingdoms lie on the weflern coafl of Africa, which of all 
countries in the old world are neareft to the ealtern coafl 
of America.- In the ifland of Hayti, at the interment of 
the cacique, are many perfons of both.fexes, but in parti¬ 
cular fome of his wives, were buried alive with him ; and 
they often contended among themfelve.s for having this 
honour, 
