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Meaning of INTERCESSOR

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\In`ter*ces"sor\, n. [L., a surety: cf. F.
intercesseur.]
1. One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator.
   (a) One who interposes between parties at variance, with a
       view to reconcile them.
   (b) One who pleads in behalf of another. --Milton.
2. (Eccl.) A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see,
   administers the bishopric till a successor is installed.
 
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