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n. [ Cf. OF. fervence. See Fervent. ] The state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness. [ 1913 Webster ]

When you pray, let it be with attention, with fervency, and with perseverance. Wake. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. fervent, L. fervens, -entis. p. pr. of fervere o the boiling hot, to boil, glow. ] 1. Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Pet. iii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit. Rom. iii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

So spake the fervent angel. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. Macaulay.

-- Fer"vent*ly, adv. -- Fer"vent*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Laboring fervently for you in prayers. Col. iv. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to breathe rapidly and deeply; to breathe excessively; as, The mountain climber started to hyperventilate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act or process of hyperventilating; breathing rapidly and deeply. [ PJC ]

2. (Med.) A condition in which alveolar carbon dioxide concentration is markedly lower than normal, usually due to breathing rapidly and deeply. [ PJC ]

n. A coming between; intervention; meeting. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Intervened p. pr. & vb. n. Intervening. ] [ L. intervenire, interventum, to intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See Come. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To come between. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who intervenes; especially (Law), a person who assumes a part in a suit between others.

{ } n. Intervention; interposition. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. interveniens, p. pr. of intervenire. ] Being or coming between; intercedent; interposed. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Intervene. ] To thwart; to obstruct. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. interventio an interposition: cf. F. intervention. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of intervening; interposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. Holder. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; -- the intervention of one state in the affairs of another is typically unwelcome by the state being intervened in, but some cases of mediation between states may be called intervention. Opposed to nonintervention. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Civil Law) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. interventeur. ] One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers. Coleman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Intervene, Avenue. ] Interposition. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Supervened p. pr. & vb. n. Supervening. ] [ L. supervenire, superventum, to come over, to come upon; super over + venire to come. See Super-, and Come, and cf. Overcome. ] To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter unless impressed by divine power. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tyrany immediately supervened. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. superveniens, p. pr. ] Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

That branch of belief was in him supervenient to Christian practice. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenient causes. Z. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]