0 past simple and past participle of intercede
1 to use your influence to persuade someone in authority to forgive another person, or save this person from punishment:
He shows how comets and bolides have interceded in planetary history in the past, and how their future influence - catastrophic or not - might be estimated.
Later, a neighbour's mistress interceded on the husband's behalf explaining the advantages of compliance with one's husband's wishes.
Third, the authorities interceded to prevent the spread of violence in their jurisdiction.
At this point in the story, a friend of the parents interceded on behalf of the prisoner and the parents.
I interceded, with the result that the opportunity was given to these men to work.
He interceded with a great deal of personal commitment in order to help us reach an agreement in the talks, in the dialogue.
Several local people interceded for the victims' lives, calling them good people and not wrongdoers.
Reports of his good works continued well after his death, with further reports that he interceded in impossible cases.
