2. To thrust; to intrude; to put between, either for aid or for troubling.
What watchful cares do interpose themselves
Betwixt your eyes and night?
Shak.
The common Father of mankind seasonably interposed his hand, and rescues miserable man.
Woodward. 3. To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument. Milton.
Interpose
(In`ter*pose"), v. i.
1. To be or come between.
Long hid by interposing hill or wood.
Cowper. 2. To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace. Pope.
3. To utter a sentiment by way of interruption. Boyle.
Syn. — To intervene; intercede; mediate; interfere; intermeddle. — To Interpose, Intermeddle, Interfere.
A man may often interpose with propriety in the concerns of others; he can never intermeddle without
being impertinent or officious; nor can be interfere without being liable to the same charge, unless he
has rights which are interfered with. "In our practical use, interference is something offensive. It is the
pushing in of himself between two parties on the part of a third who was not asked, and is not thanked
for his pains, and who, as the feeling of the word implies, had no business there; while interposition is
employed to express the friendly, peacemaking mediation of one whom the act well became, and who,
even if he was not specially invited thereunto, is still thanked for what he has done." Trench.
Interpose
(In"ter*pose) n. Interposition. [Obs.]
Interposer
(In`ter*pos"er) n. One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a
mediator or agent between parties. Shak.
Interposit
(In`ter*pos"it) n. [From L. interpositus, p. p. of interponere. See Interposition.] An intermediate
depot or station between one commercial city or country and another. Mitford.
Interposition
(In`ter*po*si"tion) n. [L. interpositio a putting between, insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf.
F. interposition. See Interpone, Position.]
1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.
2. The thing interposed.
Interposure
(In`ter*po"sure) n. Interposition. [Obs.]
Interpret
(In*ter"pret) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interpreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Interpreting.] [F. interprêter, L.
interpretari, p. p. interpretatus, fr. interpres interpeter, agent, negotiator; inter between + (prob.) the
root of pretium price. See Price.]
1. To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or
terms; to decipher; to define; — applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries,
etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.
Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Matt. i. 23.
And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Gen.
xli. 8.
