interventor
nounEtymology From Latin interventor. Compare French interventeur.
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One who intervenes; a mediator, especially one designated by a church to reconcile parties and unite them in the choice of officers.
- An effort was made, particularly in the Latin church, to correct the disorders of popular elections without taking away the rights of the people. This they did by the agency of an interventor, who was sent among the people to endeavour to unite their votes upon a given person […]1841, Lyman Coleman, The Antiquities of the Christian Church:
- The Paraguayan Government took over responsibility for the working on August 1, and appointed an interventor supervising operation.1959 November 23, “Notes and News: The Paraguay Central Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 804:
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US A mine inspector.