Mediator

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mediator \Me"di*a`tor\, n. [L. mediator: cf. E. m['e]diateur.]
     One who mediates; especially, one who interposes between
     parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them;
     hence, an intercessor.
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           For there is one God, and one mediator between God and
           men, the man Christ Jesus.               --1 Tim. ii.
                                                    5.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mediator
       n : a negotiator who acts as a link between parties [syn: {go-between},
            {intermediator}, {intermediary}, {intercessor}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "mediator":
     Charlie McCarthy, agent, ancilla, appeaser, appliance, arbiter,
     arbitrator, broker, conciliator, connection, contact, contrivance,
     creature, deputy, device, distributor, dummy, dupe, entrepreneur,
     front, front man, go-between, handmaid, handmaiden, implement,
     instrument, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary,
     intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediator, intermedium,
     internuncio, interpleader, intervener, interventionist,
     interventor, jobber, judge, lever, liaison, link, mechanism,
     mediary, medium, middleman, midwife, minion, moderator, mouthpiece,
     negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, ombudsman, organ,
     pawn, peacemaker, plaything, puppet, referee, servant, slave,
     spokesman, spokeswoman, stooge, tie, tool, toy, troubleshooter,
     umpire, vehicle, wholesaler
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Mediator
     one who intervenes between two persons who are at variance, with
     a view to reconcile them. This word is not found in the Old
     Testament; but the idea it expresses is found in Job 9:33, in
     the word "daysman" (q.v.), marg., "umpire."
     
       This word is used in the New Testament to denote simply an
     internuncius, an ambassador, one who acts as a medium of
     communication between two contracting parties. In this sense
     Moses is called a mediator in Gal. 3:19.
     
       Christ is the one and only mediator between God and man (1
     Tim. 2:5; Heb. 8:6; 9:15; 12:24). He makes reconciliation
     between God and man by his all-perfect atoning sacrifice. Such a
     mediator must be at once divine and human, divine, that his
     obedience and his sufferings might possess infinite worth, and
     that he might possess infinite wisdom and knowlege and power to
     direct all things in the kingdoms of providence and grace which
     are committed to his hands (Matt. 28:18; John 5:22, 25, 26, 27);
     and human, that in his work he might represent man, and be
     capable of rendering obedience to the law and satisfying the
     claims of justice (Heb. 2:17, 18; 4:15, 16), and that in his
     glorified humanity he might be the head of a glorified Church
     (Rom. 8:29).
     
       This office involves the three functions of prophet, priest,
     and king, all of which are discharged by Christ both in his
     estate of humiliation and exaltation. These functions are so
     inherent in the one office that the quality appertaining to each
     gives character to every mediatorial act. They are never
     separated in the exercise of the office of mediator.
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MEDIATOR. One who interposes between two contending parties, with their 
  consent, for the purpose of assisting them in settling their differences. 
  Sometimes this term is applied to an officer who is appointed by a sovereign 
  nation to promote the settlement of disputes between two other nations. Vide 
  Minister; Mediator.