mediatorial
Americanadjective
Usage
What does mediatorial mean? Mediatorial means involving, relating to, or resembling a mediator—a person who mediates or helps to settle a dispute or create agreement when there is conflict between two or more people or groups by acting as an intermediary or go-between for those parties. This process is called mediation, and it always involves a mediator acting as an impartial third party to guide the communication between the conflicting parties. Sometimes, mediation happens in an informal way. You might act in a mediatorial capacity to help two friends settle an argument. But mediation and related terms are perhaps most commonly used in more specific ways in formal situations, such as mediation between a company and its striking employees or mediation between spouses who are getting divorced. Example: I tried to take a mediatorial role to smooth things over between my sisters.
Etymology
Origin of mediatorial
Example Sentences
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When the Son of God ascended after his mediatorial work on earth was complete, all power was given to him in heaven and on earth.
From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
Then, again, society assigns her a sort of mediatorial position between the Church and the world; she is the point of transition between the clergy and their flocks.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
Here the mediatorial aspect corroborates Mr. Manning's information.**
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
Paris, April 11th, 1783,223 Change in the British Ministry.—Russia and Austria are invited to send mediatorial plenipotentiaries to assist at the definitive treaties.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII by Jared Sparks
These are the material, the shadowy, and the mediatorial.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
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