Lewis Short
(verb) : inter-sisto, stĭti, 3
* To stand still in the middle; trop., to stop in the midst, to make a pause in speaking (perhaps only in Quint.); of a speaker: indecentissime,Quint. 8, 3, 45: ut intersistat fatigatus,id. 12, 11, 2; 10, 7, 10; of discourse: oratio,id. 9, 4, 33.— Pass. impers.: quasi intersistatur,Quint. 9, 4, 36; so, ubi clausulis non intersistitur,id. 9, 4, 106.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary