释义 |
mediative, a. rare.|ˈmiːdɪətɪv| [f. mediate v. + -ive.] That has the quality of mediating; pertaining to mediation or a mediator.
1813Shelley Q. Mab v. 232 This commerce of sincerest virtue needs No mediative signs of selfishness. 1860Westcott Introd. Study Gosp. v. (ed. 5) 303 In the Synoptists faith is the mediative energy in material deliverances as the types of higher deliverance. 1890Fairbairn Catholicism (1899) 299 All means were inadequate, and so divisive; as mediative they held the spirit out of the immediate Presence. |