intervenient

Etymology
From the present participle stem of.

Adjective

 * 1) Being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental.
 * 2) * 1971, Supreme Court of Michigan, Thompson v. Enz, 385 Mich. 103, 188 N.W.2d 579:
 * We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance.
 * 1) Intervening, interceding, placed or coming between.
 * 2) * 1931, L. Minerva Turnbull, "Private Schools in Norfolk, 1800-1860," William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd ser., vol. 11, no. 4, p. 279:
 * The Norfolk Grammar School had two sessions "with a short intervenient recess."
 * The Norfolk Grammar School had two sessions "with a short intervenient recess."

Noun

 * 1) One who intervenes.
 * 2) * 2006, "Is the Sacred for Sale? Tourism & Indigenous Peoples," Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (www.unpo.org), 7 Aug.:
 * One intervenient said that whereas we cannot prevent tourism, we can at least try to minimize the impact and the destabilizing effects.