Word Meanings - INTERMEDIACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Interposition; intervention. Derham.

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.
NONINTERVENTION
The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another.