Intervene vs Interventive - What's the difference?
intervene | interventive |
(ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
* De Quincey
To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened (i.e. between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action
(legal) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
Serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.
* {{quote-book, 1817, William Jones, Studies of Chess, chapter=Towards attaining a fixed Principle on a contested Elementary Point, page=405, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=UvMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA405
, passage=The Laws, or Interventive Regulations, obviate or decide disputes, between players, respecting punctilios in placing the board and pieces, and limit the penalties for irregularities.}}
* {{quote-news, year=1997, date=June 20, author=Angela Bowman, title=Labor Dispute, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=In a hospital setting, midwives are following protocols that are part of a more interventive model of care. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 27, author=, title=Same-Sex Marriage: Parsing the Arguments (1 Letter), work=New York Times
, passage=His opposition to same-sex marriage rests upon two familiar conservative notions: the view that interventive “protection” rather than encouragement is the best way to bolster the presumably threatened institution of marriage
As a verb intervene
is (ambitransitive) to come between, or to be between, persons or things.As an adjective interventive is
serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.intervene
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- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
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interventive
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