Word Meanings - INTERJACENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles. Sir W. Raleigh.
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- MIDDLE
1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. - INTERVENE
hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. 1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. 2. To occur, fall, or come between, points - INTERVENTRICULAR
Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart. - INTERPOSER
One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties. Shak. - INTERVENER
One who intervenes; especially , a person who assumes a part in a suit between others. - MIDDLE-GROUND
That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. - INTERPOSURE
Interposition. - MIDDLE-EARTH
The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak. - INTERVENTION
The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties. (more info) 1. The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. - INTERPOSITION
insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2. The thing interposed. - MIDDLEMAN
The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, - MODERATELY
In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent. Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller. - INCLUDED
Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them. - MIDDLER
One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries. - MIDDLE-AGE
Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediƦval. - COMPRISAL
The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow. - INTERVENIENT
Being or coming between; intercedent; interposed. Bacon. - MIDDLEMOST
Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost. - INTERPOSIT
An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another. Mitford. - COMPRISE
To comprehend; to include. Comprise much matter in few words. Hocker. Friendship does two souls in one comprise. Roscommon. Syn. -- To embrace; include; comprehend; contain; encircle; inclose; involve; imply. - MODERATE
Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Limited in degree - IMMODERATENESS
The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance. Puller.