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One who mediates; especially, one who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them; hence, an intercessor. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. ii. 5.

Of or pertaining to a mediator, or to mediation; mediatory; as, a mediatorial office. -- Me`di*a*to"ri*al*ly, adv. My measures were . . . healing and mediatorial. Burke.

The office or character of a mediator.

Mediatorial.

A female mediator.

Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

An actor or player in comedy. "The famous comedian, Roscius." Middleton.

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. Shak.

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. Shak.

In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop. South.

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes. Bp. Hall.

Immediateness.

Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. E. Forbes.

Interposition; intervention. Derham.

The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices.

Lying between; intervening; intermediate. "Intermedial colors." Evelyn.

Intermediate. [Obs.]

Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project. Intermediary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after inflammation has set in.

n two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state (Theol.), the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body. -- Intermediate terms (Math.), the terms of a progression or series b…

In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.