intercedes

Verb

intercede (third-person singular simple present intercedes, present participle interceding, simple past and past participle interceded)

1. (intransitive) To plead on someone else's behalf.
   • Our Lady intercedes

   Synonyms:

   intercess

2. (intransitive) To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.
   • I to the Lords will intercede, not doubting / Thir favourable ear,1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 57
3. (intransitive) To pass between; to intervene.
   • He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived.1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ