Intercede vs Servile - What's the difference?

As a verb intercede

is .

of or pertaining to a slave.

(grammar) an element which forms no part of the original root.

(interced)

To plead on someone else's behalf.

To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.

* Milton

I to the lords will intercede , not doubting their favourable ear.

To pass between; to intervene.

* Sir M. Hale

He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived.

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(en adjective)

of or pertaining to a slave

* Alexander Pope

Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!

submissive or slavish

servile''' flattery; '''servile obedience

(grammar) Not belonging to the original root.

a servile letter

(grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e'' in ''tune .

(en noun)

(grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.

* radical

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