interclude

verb /ɪntə(ɹ)ˈkluːd/

1. To cut off or shut off (something) from a course or place, by something intervening; to intercept, to interrupt.

   transitive

   [W]hen the receiver FF is emptied of air, the ſtop-cock B is to be ſhut, that ſo all paſſage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded, […]

Where it comes from

From Latin interclūdō; inter (“between”) + claudō (“to shut”). See close.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry interclude (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← intercidentintercurrent →

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