peacemaker

noun

Etymology: Compound of peace + maker. First attested in the Tyndale Bible from 1526, as a translation of Koine Greek εἰρηνοποιοί (eirēnopoioí, “peacemaker”), a hapax legomenon found in the New Testament. (The Wycliffe Bible from 1395 instead uses "pesible men", to translate Latin pacifici from the Vulgate)

1. A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes; one who engages in peacemaking.

   “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God.”

   “Loke therfore, O mercifull God, not vpon the sinnes which we continually commit: but vpon our mediatour & peacemaker Jesus Christ; that by his intercession thy wrath may be pacified, and we againe by thy fatherly countenance relieved and comforted.”

2. Catachresis for pacemaker.

   “Indeed, although the activity of the heart depends on the intrinsic rhythm of its peacemaker […]”

   “The “heart’s peacemaker” is the node from which the electrical signal for heart beat are […]”