Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ME'DI-A-TOR, n. [Fr. mediateur.]

1. One that interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them.
2. By way of eminence, Christ is the mediator, the divine intercessor through whom sinners may be reconciled to an offended God. – Tim. ii. Christ is a mediator by nature, as partaking of both natures divine and human; and mediator by office, as transacting matters between God and man. – Waterland.