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confonant. When thefe vibrations never coincide at all 
in the fame given time, the difcord is confummate, and 
confequently the interval abfolutely diffonant. But, for 
a full account of thefe, fee the article Music. 
INTERVA'LE, f. A word ufed in North America to 
denote the plain between a river and the adjacent high¬ 
lands. Monthly Mag. 181 o. 
To INTERVENE, v. n. [ intervenio , Lat. ifitcrven.tr, Fr.] 
To come between things or perfons.—To make intervals: 
While fo near each other thus all day 
Our talk we chufe, what wonder, if fo near. 
Looks intervene , and liniles ? Milton. 
To crofs unexpectedly.—Efteem the danger of an aftion, 
and the pofiibilities of mifearriage, and every crofs acci¬ 
dent that can intervene, to be either a mercy on God’s part, 
or a fault on ours. Taylor. 
INTERVE'NE, / Oppofition, or perhaps interview. 
Out of ufe. —They had fome lharper and fome milder dif¬ 
ferences, which might eafdy happen in luch an intervene 
of grandees, both vehement on the parts which they 
fwayed. IVotton. • 
INTERVE'NIENT, adj. [ interveniens, Lat. intervenant, 
Fr.] Intercedent; interpofed; pafling between.—There 
be intervenient in the rife of eight, in tones* two bemolls 
or half notes. Bacon. 
INTERVENING, f. The aft of coming between. 
INTERVENTION, f. [ intervention, Fr. interventio, Lat.] 
Agency between perfons.—Let us decide our quarrels at 
home, without the intervention of any foreign power. Tem¬ 
ple, —God will judge the World in righteoufnefs by the 
intervention of the man Chrift Jefus, who is the Sa_viour as 
well as the Judge of the world. Atterbury.— Agency be¬ 
tween antecedents and confecutives.—In the difpenfation 
of God’s mercies to the world, fome things he does by 
himfelf, others by the intervention of natural means, and 
by the mediation of fuch inftruments as he has appointed'. 
L'Ef range. —Interpofition ; the ftate of being interpofed. 
.—Sound is fnut out by the intervention of that lax mem¬ 
brane, and not fuffered to pafs into the inward ear. 
Holder. i 
To- INTERVERT', v. a. \interverto, Lat.] To turn to 
another courfe.—The duke intervened the bargain, and 
gave the poor widow of Erpenius, for the books, five hun¬ 
dred pounds. IVotton. —To turn to another ufe. 
INTERVER'TING, f. The aft of turning to a differ¬ 
ent courfe- 
INTERVIEW, /. \entrevue, Fr.] Mutual fight; fight 
of each other. It is commonly ufed for a formal, ap¬ 
pointed, or important, meeting or conference.—The day 
will come when, the paflions of former enmity being al¬ 
layed, we fliall with ten times redoubled tokens of recon¬ 
ciled love fhow ourfelves each towards other the fame, 
which Jofeph and the brethren of Jofeph were, at the time 
of their interview in Egypt. Hooker. 
Such happy interview, and fair event 
Of love, and youth not loft, fongs, garlands, flow’rs. 
And charming fymphonies, attach’d the heart' 
Of Adam. Milton. 
INTERVI’GILANT, adj. Watchful; waking between 
whiles. 
To INTERVI'GILATE, v. n. [from'infer,-Lat. be¬ 
tween, and vigilo, to watch.] To wake now aiid then. 
Bailey. 
INTERVIGILA'TION, / The aft of watching; the 
aft of waking now and then. Scott. 
To INTERVOL'VE, v. a. \intervolvo, Lat.] To involve 
one within another: 
Myftical dance ! which yonder ftarry fphere, 
Of planets, and of fix’d, in all her wheels 
Refembles neareft 5 mazes intricate, 
•Eccentric, intervolv'd, yet regular, 
Then molt, when molt irregular they feem. Milton, 
Vql.XI. No. 744.. 
INTERVOL'VING, ,/ The aft of involving one in 
another. 
To INTERWE'AVE, v. a. prefer, interwove ; part. palf. 
interwoven, interwove, or interzneaved. To mix one with an¬ 
other in a regular texture; to intermingle.—The Supreme 
Infinite could not make intelligent creatures, without 
implanting in their natures a molt ardent defire, interwoven 
in the fubftance of their fpiritual natures, of being re¬ 
united with himfelf. Cheyne. 
I fat me down to watch upon a bank 
With ivy canopied, and interwove 
With flaunting hor.eyfuckle. Milton. 
INTERWE'AVING, f. The aft of weaving together, 
or of forming into one regular texture. 
To INTERWISH', v. a. To wilh mutually to each 
other: 
The venom of all ftepdames, gamefter’s gall. 
What tyrants and their lubjefts interwijh , 
All ill fall on that man. Donne. 
INTES'TABLE, adj. [intefiabilis, Lat.] Difqualified to 
make a will.—A perlon excommunicated is rendered in¬ 
famous and intefable both aftively and palfively. Aylijfe. 
INTES'TACY, f. The ftate of dying inteftate. lllack- 
Jlone. 
^ INTES'TATE, adj. \intefat, Fr. intejlatus, Lat.] Want¬ 
ing a will; dying without a will: 
When furfeited and fwell’d, the peacock raw. 
Pie bears into the bath; whence want of breath. 
Repletions, apoplex, intejlate death. Dryden. 
INTES'TATE,/ One who dies without a will. But, 
in law, there are two kinds of inteftates : one who makes 
no will; another who makes a will, and nominates exe¬ 
cutors, but they refufe; in which cafe he is faid to die an 
inteftate, and the ordinary commits adminiftration. 2 Par. 
lnjl. 397. In former times, he who died inteftate was 
accounted damned, becaufe (as Mat. Paris tells us) he 
was obliged by the canons to leave at leaft a tenth part of 
his goods to pious ufes, for the redemption of his foul; 
therefore whoever neglefted fo to do took no care of his 
own falvation. And they made no difference between a 
filicide and an inteftate ; for as, in one cafe, the goods 
were forfeited to the king, fo in the other they were for^ 
feited to the chief lord. But, becaufe it was accounted 
a very wicked thing to die without making any diftribu- 
tion of his goods to pious ufes, and fuch cafes would of¬ 
ten happen by fudden deaths, therefore, by fubfequent 
conftitutions, the bifiiops had power to make fuch diftri- 
bution as the inteftate himfelf was bound to do; and this 
was called elcemofyna rationabilis. And it was by this 
means that the fpiritual courts came firft to have jurifdic- 
tion in teftamentary cafes. See the article Executor. 
INTESTI'NA, /. [Latin.] The firft clafs of vermes, 
or worms; containing fifteen genera. See the article 
Helminthology, vol. ix. p. 338-349. 
INTES'TINAL, adj. [Fr. from intefine.'] Belonging 
to the guts.—The mouths of the lafteals are opened by 
the intcfinal tube, affefting a ftrait inftead of a lpiral cy¬ 
linder. Arbuthnot. 
INTES'TINE, adj. [ intefin , Fr. intefinus, Lat.] In¬ 
ternal; inward; not external.—Of thefe inward and intef- 
tine enemies to prayer, there are our paft fins to wound us, 
our. prefent cares to diftraft us, our diftempereel paflions 
to diforder us, and a whole fwarm of loofe and floating 
imaginations to moleft us. Duppa. 
Intefine war no more our paflions wage, 
Ev’n giddy faftions hear away their rage. Pope 
Contained in the body: 
Intefine ftone and ulcer, cholic pangs, 
And moon-ftruck madnefs. Milton. 
Domeftic; not foreign: 
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