arbiter

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  1. noun One chosen or appointed to judge or decide a disputed issue; an arbitrator.
  2. noun One who has the power to judge or ordain at will: an arbiter of fashion. See Synonyms at judge.

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  • The Hive's supreme arbiter, the Tukar'ramin, had witnessed Beq'qdahl's cowardly flight.
  • He sighed If you persist in sighing like that, I really will call the arbiter," she whispered I can't help it," he said. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 02 - February 1997
  • Her second impulse was to call the arbiter and have him reprimanded. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 02 - February 1997
  • "Nothing," wrote Giustinian of Wolsey in 1519, "pleases him more than to be called the arbiter of Christendom." —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri VIII - A.F. Pollard
  • The district will hire an arbiter from the American Arbitration Association. —  news | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English arbitre, from Old French, from Latin arbiter, of Phoenician origin; see ʿrb in Semitic roots.

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  1. = French arbitre, from Latin arbiter, a witness, judge, literally one who goes to see, from ar- for ad, to, + betere, bitere, come.
  2. from arbiter, n.
 

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