What's the difference between intercessor and intercessory?
Intercessor
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed.
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Intercessory
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession; interceding; as, intercessory prayer.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data suggest that intercessory prayer to the Judeo-Christian God has a beneficial therapeutic effect in patients admitted to a CCU.
(2) The therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (IP) to the Judeo-Christian God, one of the oldest forms of therapy, has had little attention in the medical literature.
(3) Over ten months, 393 patients admitted to the CCU were randomized, after signing informed consent, to an intercessory prayer group (192 patients) or to a control group (201 patients).