intermediatory
English
Etymology
intermediate (“to act between others, to mediate”, verb) + -ory (suffix forming adjectives)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪntəˈmiːdɪətəɹɪ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪntəˈmiːdɪətɹi/
Adjective
intermediatory (not comparable)
- Having the function of intermediating; mediatory.
- 1851, Fraser’s Magazine, XLIV, page 608:
- Animosities are softened by the intermediatory offices of an unpremeditated libation.
- 1992, Philip R. Davies, chapter VII, in In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’, page 124:
- There is no necessary, far less automatic, connection between intermediatory behaviour and the production of literature.
Translations
having the function of intermediating
References
- “Intermediatory, a.” listed on page 406/1 of § 2 (I) of volume V (H–K, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray, 1901) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
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