interclude

From Latin interclūdō; inter (“between”) + claudō (“to shut”). See close.

• IPA^(key): /ɪntə(ɹ)ˈkluːd/

interclude (third-person singular simple present intercludes, present participle intercluding, simple past and past participle intercluded)

1. (transitive) To cut off or shut off (something) from a course or place, by something intervening; to intercept, to interrupt.
   • 1682, Robert Boyle, “A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The Second Part. […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, page 103, column 1:

     [W]hen the receiver FF is emptied of air, the ſtop-cock B is to be ſhut, that ſo all paſſage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded, […]

   • 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:

     Next morning the combined forces appeared again in order of battle, in front of the Athenian works, and by their position intercluded the communication of the Athenian general with his fort of Labdalum, and with his northern lines.

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

• IPA^(key): /in.terˈklu.de/
• Rhymes: -ude
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧clù‧de

interclude

1. third-person singular present indicative of intercludere

interclūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of interclūdō