• IPA: /ɪntə(ɹ)ˈsiːd/

intercede (intercedes, present participle interceding; past and past participle interceded)

1. (intransitive) To plead on someone else's behalf. attention en
2. (intransitive) To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, page 57 ↗:

     I to the Lords will intercede, not doubting / Thir favourable ear,

3. To pass between; to intervene.

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

• German: bitten, verwenden, eingreifen, intervenieren
• Russian: ходатайствовать