intermediatory
English
editEtymology
editFrom intermediate (“to act between others, to mediate”, verb) + -ory (suffix forming adjectives).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editintermediatory (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
edithaving the function of intermediating
References
edit- “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.)