Word Meanings - INTERCESSOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed. (more info) 1. One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator. One who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them.

Additional info about word: INTERCESSOR

A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed. (more info) 1. One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator. One who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them. One who pleads in behalf of another. Milton.

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  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• DURIO
  A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
• BISHOPDOM
  Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
• DUROUS
  Hard.
• DURANTE
  During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
• BISHOPLY
  Bishoplike; episcopal.
• DURANCY
  Duration. Dr. H. More.
• BISHOP-STOOL
  A bishop's seat or see.
• DURRA
  A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called
• DUR
  Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
• BISHOP'S-WEED
  An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. Goutweed .
• DURABILITY
  The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas
• BISHOPLIKE
  Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.
• INSTALL
  OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E. stall: cf. It. 1. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish in a place. She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside. Sir W. Scott. 2. To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest
• RECONCILE
  1. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. We pray
• DURATION
  The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.
• BISHOP'S LENGTH
  A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.
• INSTALLMENT
  1. The act of installing; installation. Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. Milton. 2. The seat in which one is placed. The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each
• BISHOP
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• DURUKULI
  A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus).
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• PODURA
  Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s,
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• ORDURE
  1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland.
• BORDURE
  A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• ADUROL
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• INTERMEDIATOR
  A mediator.
• ENDUREMENT
  Endurance. South.
• IRRECONCILEMENT
  The state or quality of being unreconciled; disagreement.
• OBDURENESS; OBDUREDNESS
  Hardness. Bp. Hall.