intercurrence

English

Etymology

See intercurrent.

Noun

intercurrence (countable and uncountable, plural intercurrences)

1. A passing or running between; occurrence.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, “The History of Fluidity and Firmness”, in The Works of Robert Boyle‎^[1], volume I, London: A. Millar, published 1744, page 255:

     […] I have observed in grinding of glasses […] sometimes the convex surface of one body being ground upon the concave surface of another, the two surfaces will happen to be so closely and exactly fitted to one another, (their immediate contact in all their parts, or at least in innumerable of them, hindering the intercurrence of the air) that a man is not able without breaking one or both of them to pull them directly asunder […]

   • 1892, Henry M. Lyman, A Text-Book of the Principles and Practices of Medicine‎^[2], Philadelphia: Lea Brothers, Part 2, Chapter 15, p. 224:

     It is an interesting fact that certain diseases are sometimes benefited if not cured, by the intercurrence of erysipelas.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “intercurrence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)