Meanings
adjectiveintercipient (not comparable)
- not comparableIntercepting; stopping.
nounintercipient (plural intercipients)
plural intercipients
- One who, or that which, intercepts or stops anything.
I continued the way of dressing , and applied Empl. è bolo, as an Intercipient , about the Ancle and upper part of the Foot
1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinintercipiēns
- Englishintercipient
Borrowed from Latin intercipiēns, present participle of intercipiō. See intercept.
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