intercident

English

Etymology

From Latin intercidens, intercedentis, present participle of intercidere (“to fall between”); inter (“between”) + cadere (“to fall”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)sɪdənt/

Adjective

intercident (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Coming or falling between; happening accidentally[1].
    • 1686 (indicated as 1685–1686), Robert Boyle, “A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature: […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, section VI, page 396:
      But it is found by ſad experience, that ſhe rouſes herſelf up to make a criſis, not only upon improper, and, as phyſicians call them, intercident days, […] vvhich ſeldom afford any criſis, and much ſeldomer a good one; but alſo vvhen there appear not any ſigns of coction, or at leaſt of due coction, and by theſe unſeaſonable attempts vveaken the patient, and increaſe the malady, or perhaps make it ſpeedily mortal.

Noun

intercident (plural intercidents)

  1. (astrology, rare) A day that falls between other days of importance.

References

  1. ^ “intercident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

intercīdent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of intercīdō
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