- intercede (v.)
- 1570s, "to come between in space or time" (obsolete); c. 1600, "to interpose on behalf of another," a back-formation from intercession, or else from Latin intercedere "intervene, come between, be between" (in Medieval Latin "to interpose on someone's behalf"), from inter- "between" (see inter-) + cedere "go" (see cede). Related: Interceded; interceding.
