intermediatory
adjUK /ɪntəˈmiːdɪətəɹɪ/
Etymology From intermediate (“to act between others, to mediate”, verb) + -ory (suffix forming adjectives).
1
Having the function of intermediating; mediatory.
- Animosities are softened by the intermediatory offices of an unpremeditated libation.1851, Fraser’s Magazine, XLIV, page 608:
- 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: