What does "mediumize" mean?

To act as a medium; to channel or speak for a spirit or noncorporal being.

Mediumize

verb

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Verb

1
To act as a medium; to channel or speak for a spirit or noncorporal being.
"During the forty years that Moses mediumized for the god of the Hebrews, there was no need of diviners or their arts."
2
To make into a spiritual medium; to imbue with spiritual energy.
"And each guardian mind of the spiritual group contributes its propoertion of magnetic emanation, to form a line of communication, just as each person in the terrestrial group lends his or her mental and physical influence to mediumize the table."
3
To make into or act as a medium of exchange.
"None of the Alliance Exchanges issue anything intended as a circulating medium. The Bank alone mediumizes securites."
4
To transition into using a medium of exchange.
"The discovery of America brought on expansion of commerce and trade, and the guild system was no longer able to meet the demands made upon it; then with the advent of capitalism, trade became gradually mediumized and the demand for increase in production was accomplished by the numerous inventions and discoveries of the eighteenth century."
5
To act as an intermediary; to translate from one context to another.
"Whatever has happened outside this brain, without its instigation, is automatically transformed by the process of assimilating, or mediumizing, it."

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6
To finish by applying a medium.
"There is no better method, beside retouching upon mediumized films than using a hard shellac varnish, and rubbing over the solution of resin in turpentine, mentioned in the chapter on Materials."
7
To make less extreme; to make medium in size or intensity.
"We've got one or two highly mediumizing institutions – the public schools, 'cricket' in its various forms – but as a people we're chockfull of extremism."

"During the forty years that Moses mediumized for the god of the Hebrews, there was no need of diviners or their arts."

From medium + -ize.

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