intervenev. i.[L. intervenire, interventum, to intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See Come.]()1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.()2. 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.()3. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.()4. 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.(Abbott.)v. t. To come between.()Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. (De Quincey.)n. A coming between; intervention; meeting.(Sir H. Wotton.)