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Mediate

//ˈmidieɪt// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Acting through a mediating agency, indirect.

    "The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented."

  2. 2
    Intermediate between extremes.

    "soon the mediate clouds shall be dispell'd"

  3. 3
    Gained or effected by a medium or condition.

    "mediate positive proof"

Adjective
  1. 1
    acting through or dependent on an intervening agency wordnet
  2. 2
    being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties. transitive

    "Negotiators managed to mediate a ceasefire."

  2. 2
    act between parties with a view to reconciling differences wordnet
  3. 3
    To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement. intransitive

    ""Nay," replied Charles, gravely, "this is carrying your anger too far. Allow me to mediate between you. I must entreat, nay, I command, the Lady Francesca's presence.""

  4. 4
    occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others wordnet
  5. 5
    To divide into two equal parts.

    "Then, Meaſuring Land, by vvalking over it, they ſtyled a Double-ſtep (i.e. the Space from the elevation of one Foot, to the ſame Foot ſet dovvn again, mediated by a ſtep of the other Foot) a Pace, equal to 5 Foot; a Thouſand of vvhich Paces made a Mile, vvhich is a Meaſure ſerving for any diſtance on Earth, and even for the Height of the Sphears."

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  1. 6
    To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.

    "He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter."

  2. 7
    To act as a spiritualistic medium.
  3. 8
    To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.

Etymology

Etymology 1

The adjective is first attested in the 1440's in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from Middle English mediat(e) (“intermediate; intercessory”), borrowed from Late Latin mediātus, perfect passive participle of mediō (“to divide in the middle; (in Medieval Latin) to be in the middle, be or become between, mediate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from medius (“middle”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Etymology 2

The adjective is first attested in the 1440's in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from Middle English mediat(e) (“intermediate; intercessory”), borrowed from Late Latin mediātus, perfect passive participle of mediō (“to divide in the middle; (in Medieval Latin) to be in the middle, be or become between, mediate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from medius (“middle”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

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