mediator

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mediator - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mediator \Me"di*a`tor\, n. [L. mediator: cf. E. m['e]diateur.]
     One who mediates; especially, one who interposes between
     parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them;
     hence, an intercessor.
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           For there is one God, and one mediator between God and
           men, the man Christ Jesus.               --1 Tim. ii.
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mediator - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mediator
      n 1: a negotiator who acts as a link between parties [syn:
           mediator, go-between, intermediator, intermediary,
           intercessor]

mediator - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Mediator
  one who intervenes between two persons who are at variance, with
  a view to reconcile them. This word is not found in the Old
  Testament; but the idea it expresses is found in Job 9:33, in
  the word "daysman" (q.v.), marg., "umpire."
  
    This word is used in the New Testament to denote simply an
  internuncius, an ambassador, one who acts as a medium of
  communication between two contracting parties. In this sense
  Moses is called a mediator in Gal. 3:19.
  
    Christ is the one and only mediator between God and man (1
  Tim. 2:5; Heb. 8:6; 9:15; 12:24). He makes reconciliation
  between God and man by his all-perfect atoning sacrifice. Such a
  mediator must be at once divine and human, divine, that his
  obedience and his sufferings might possess infinite worth, and
  that he might possess infinite wisdom and knowlege and power to
  direct all things in the kingdoms of providence and grace which
  are committed to his hands (Matt. 28:18; John 5:22, 25, 26, 27);
  and human, that in his work he might represent man, and be
  capable of rendering obedience to the law and satisfying the
  claims of justice (Heb. 2:17, 18; 4:15, 16), and that in his
  glorified humanity he might be the head of a glorified Church
  (Rom. 8:29).
  
    This office involves the three functions of prophet, priest,
  and king, all of which are discharged by Christ both in his
  estate of humiliation and exaltation. These functions are so
  inherent in the one office that the quality appertaining to each
  gives character to every mediatorial act. They are never
  separated in the exercise of the office of mediator.

mediator - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  MEDIATOR. One who interposes between two contending parties, with their 
  consent, for the purpose of assisting them in settling their differences. 
  Sometimes this term is applied to an officer who is appointed by a sovereign 
  nation to promote the settlement of disputes between two other nations. Vide 
  Minister; Mediator. 
  
  

mediator - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "mediator":
     Charlie McCarthy, agent, ancilla, appeaser, appliance, arbiter,
     arbitrator, broker, conciliator, connection, contact, contrivance,
     creature, deputy, device, distributor, dummy, dupe, entrepreneur,
     front, front man, go-between, handmaid, handmaiden, implement,
     instrument, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary,
     intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediator, intermedium,
     internuncio, interpleader, intervener, interventionist,
     interventor, jobber, judge, lever, liaison, link, mechanism,
     mediary, medium, middleman, midwife, minion, moderator, mouthpiece,
     negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, ombudsman, organ,
     pawn, peacemaker, plaything, puppet, referee, servant, slave,
     spokesman, spokeswoman, stooge, tie, tool, toy, troubleshooter,
     umpire, vehicle, wholesaler