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Adjective
mediatory (comparative more mediatory, superlative most mediatory)
- Of or relating to mediation.
1650, Francis Cheynell, The Divine Trinunity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, London: S. Gellibrand, page 346:This Mediatory Honour is very glorious, because Christ sits as a King at the right hand of the Majesty on high, and every one must confesse that our Royall Mediatour is not onely man but God also […] .
1774, Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British North America, Williamsburg: Clementina Rind, page 27:[…] we do earnestly entreat his majesty, as yet the only mediatory power between the several states of the British empire, to recommend to his parliament of Great Britain the total revocation of these acts […]
1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Impulse to Abolish War; the Episode of the Ford Peace Ship”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 1st book (Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration Dawns), page 68:[T]here was a widespread ambition that the United States should evoke some sort of permanent arbitration council alone, or in concert with the other Powers still neutral, which should stand, so to speak, on the edge of the battlefield and continue to offer its mediatory services to the warring governments until they were accepted.
2013 July 18, “Zim polls in spotlight at SA-EU summit”, in Independent Online:He said the EU supported the mediatory efforts of Zuma to forge agreement between the squabbling political parties.
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