Crossword clues for intercession
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intercession \In`ter*ces"sion\, n. [L. intercessio an intervention, a becoming surety: cf. F. intercession. See Intercede.] The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or (less often) against, another or others.
But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with
groanings which can not be uttered.
--Rom. viii.
26.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "act of interceding," from Latin intercessionem (nominative intercessio) "a going between," noun of action from past participle stem of intercedere (see intercede). The modern sense was not in classical Latin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of intervening or mediating between two parties 2 A prayer to God on behalf of another person
WordNet
n. a prayer to God on behalf of another person
the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute) [syn: intervention]
Wikipedia
Intercession or intercessory prayer is the act of praying to God on behalf of others. In Western Christianity, intercession forms a distinct form of prayer, alongside Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving.
The Apostle Paul's exhortation to Timothy specified that intercession prayers can be made for those in authority.
In Islam it is called Shafa'ah, which is a form of prayer to request God by the sake of those who are near to him in order that as a member of the believing community one could hope for the intercession of the intercessors and hence deliverance from eternal damnation though not necessarily from temporary one.
Usage examples of "intercession".
Falerian set the red current mantling in his veins, that not all my philosophy, nor the sage monitions of Blackstrap, nor thought, nor care, nor friendly intercession could withhold the artist from making a pilgrimage to the altar of love.
In 1248, a Guelf serving girl under Ghibelline torture near the piazza was saved from death, it was said, through the intercession of a female follower of St.
The grateful emperor ascribed his success to the merits and intercession of the bishop of Mursa, whose faith had deserved the public and miraculous approbation of Heaven.
To her merits and intercession I have granted your life, and permit you to retain a part of your treasures, which might be justly forfeited to the state.
The Physitian would have gone immediately home to receive a counterpoyson, to expeth and drive out the first poyson : But the wicked woman persevering in her mischiefe, would not suffer him to depart a foot, untill such time as the poyson began to worke in him, and then by much prayer and intercession she licensed him to goe home: By the way the poyson invaded the intrailes and bowels of the whole body of the Physitian, in such sort that with great paine he came to his owne house, where he had scarce time to speake to his wife, and to will her to receive the promised salitary of the death of two persons, but he yeelded up the ghost : And the other young man lived not long after, but likewise dyed, amongst the feined and deceitfull teares of his cursed wife.
I commend myself to your intercession, for they would not even take a cup of chocolate from me.
But Thrasillus was very importunate, and at length brought to passe, that at the intercession of the Parents and friends of Charites, she somewhat refreshed her fallen members with refection of meate and baine.
Then I commend myself to your intercession, for they would not even take a cup of chocolate from me.
As soon as a bloody sacrifice had been offered to prudence or to revenge, Diocletian, by his seasonable intercession, saved the remaining few whom he had never designed to punish, gently censured the severity of his stern colleague, and enjoyed the comparison of a golden and an iron age, which was universally applied to their opposite maxims of government.
Raising her arms, the clergywoman called for intercession from the planet spirit, its rocks and air, its winds and waters, so that the men might reach safe haven at their journey's end.
Can you,when you have pushed out your gates the verydefender of them, and, in a violent popularignorance, given your enemy your shield, think tofront his revenges with the easy groans of oldwomen, the virginal palms of your daughters, or withthe palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant asyou seem to be?
The senate was permitted to discharge the ungrateful office of punishment, and the emperor reserved for himself the pleasure and merit of obtaining by his intercession a general act of indemnity.
Her father the King could not, for a time, bring himself to see her, but the intercession of three stepmothers - Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard - made him relent, with the result that Elizabeth received the occasional summons to come to court, albeit rarely.
These portents were expiated by sacrifices of full-grown victims, and a day was appointed for special intercessions at all the shrines.
These portents were expiated by the sacrifice of full-grown victims, and special intercessions for the whole of one day were ordered by the pontiffs.