Word Meanings - MEDIATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts. Beaconsfield.

Related words: (words related to MEDIATIVE)

• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• MEDIATION
  1. The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention. The soul by the mediation of these passions. South. 2. Hence, specifically, agency between
• MEDIATIVE
  Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts. Beaconsfield.
• INTERMEDIATION
  The act of coming between; intervention; interposition. Burke.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach