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mediatorial, a.|ˌmiːdɪəˈtɔːrɪəl|
[f. L. type *mediātōri-us (see mediatory) + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of a mediator or mediation.
1650W. Pynchon in First Cent. Hist. Springfield, Mass. (1898) I. 81 There is no need that our blessed Mediator should pay both the price of his Mediatorial obedience, and also [etc.]. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 91. 1/2, I have not yet Discharg'd my Mediatorial Office. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 272 No Patron! Intercessor none! Now past The sweet, the clement, Mediatorial Hour! 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. v. 106 A mediatorial function..pervades the whole dispensation of God's natural providence, by which men have to suffer for each other.
Hence mediaˈtorially adv., as a mediator; mediaˈtorialism, mediatorial attitude or position.
1774A. M. Toplady Gd. News fr. Heaven Wks. 1794 III. 208 Christ shall reign..mediatorially. 1827Ch. Wordsworth Chas. I (1828) 151 And, because, at the same time they [two Presbyterians] were ‘moderate and mediatorial’, [they may] have stuck one Episcopalian between them, as a voucher of their moderation and mediatorialism. |