Meanings
adjectiveintermediatory (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving the function of intermediating; mediatory.
Animosities are softened by the intermediatory offices of an unpremeditated libation.
1851, Fraser’s Magazine, XLIV, page 6081 more example
There is no necessary, far less automatic, connection between intermediatory behaviour and the production of literature.
1992, Philip R. Davies, chapter VII, in In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’, page 124
Origin
From intermediate (“to act between others, to mediate”, verb) + -ory (suffix forming adjectives).
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