Interim

Interim, in the history of the Reformation, the name given to certain edicts of the German emperor for the regulation of religious and ecclesiastical matters 'in the meantime' (Lat. interim), till they could be decided by a general council. The chief are the Ratisbon Interim (at the diet held at Ratisbon in 1541); the Augsburg Interim (diet of 1548); and the Leipzig Interim (another diet of 1548). See CHARLES V.