interceding

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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intercede (ˌɪntəˈsiːd)

—vb
1.	(often foll by in) to come between parties or act as mediator or advocate: to intercede in the strike
2.	Roman history (of a tribune or other magistrate) to interpose a veto

[C16: from Latin intercēdere to intervene, from inter- + cēdere to move]

inter'ceder

—n

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intercede

1578, from L. intercedere "intervene, go between," from inter- "between" + cedere "go" (see cede).

Example sentences

Each had taken fees for interceding with federal agencies on behalf of business clients.

We are also prohibited from interceding on your behalf in any step of the adjudicative process.

Our areas of focus include screening and verifying successful adoptions, and interceding when they are not.

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"A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it."

-Henry David Thoreau