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Mediate vs Mediatorial - What's the difference?

mediate | mediatorial |

As adjectives the difference between mediate and mediatorial

is that mediate is while mediatorial is relating to or befitting a mediator (one who mediates).

mediate

English

Verb

(mediat)
  • To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
  • To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
  • To divide into two equal parts.
    • (Holder)
  • To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey

    • Related terms

    * mean * median * mediation * mediator * medium

    Adjective

  • Acting through a mediating agency.
  • * (Oliver Sacks)
    • Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.
  • Intermediate between extremes.
    • (Prior)
  • Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
    • An act of mediate knowledge is complex.

    Derived terms

    * mediately

    External links

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    mediatorial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to or befitting a mediator (one who mediates).
  • * 1935 , " Anglo-Irish Trade Accords", Montreal Gazette , 7 Feb., p. 10 (retrieved 2 Nov. 2010):
    • Whenever a dispute arises between two nations, each insistent upon its own rights and claims, and refusing all mediatorial efforts at compromise, it is usual that the contest develops into a battle of wits and that the essential issue at stake is relegated to the background.