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Mediate   /mˈidiˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Mediate  v. t.  
1.
To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.
2.
To divide into two equal parts. (R.)



Mediate  v. i.  (past & past part. mediated; pres. part. mediating)  
1.
To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene. (R.)
2.
To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or agreement; as, to mediate between nations.



adjective
Mediate  adj.  
1.
Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
2.
Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.
3.
Gained or effected by a medium or condition. "An act of mediate knowledge is complex."






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"Mediate" Quotes from Famous Books



... stay with Musa, the king at Kaze, who had shown himself friendly on a previous expedition, I underwent some trying experiences in trying to mediate between two rival rulers, Snay and Manua Sera, between whom there was continual wrangle and conflict. On one occasion Musa, who was suffering from a sharp illness, to prove to me that he was bent on ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 - Travel and Adventure • Various

... charming contrast, which made their expression of calm and contemplative voluptuousness the more observable; the circle round the eyes showed marks of fatigue, but the artistic manner in which she could turn her eyeballs, right and left, or up and down, to observe, or seem to mediate, the way in which she could hold them fixed, casting out their vivid fire without moving her head, without taking from her face its absolute immovability (a manoeuvre learned upon the stage), and the vivacity ...
— A Daughter of Eve • Honore de Balzac

... the Life of the Duke of Devonshire that Mr. Gladstone continued through December his attempts to mediate. [Footnote: See Life of the Duke of Devonshire, by Mr. Bernard Holland, vol. i, p. 398 et seq.] The matter is thus related by Sir Charles, though not from first- hand knowledge, since he went to Toulon in the middle of December, and stayed ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn

... even have in the moral law a purely intellectual determining principle of my causality (in the sensible world), it is not impossible that morality of mind should have a connection as cause with happiness (as an effect in the sensible world) if not immediate yet mediate (viz., through an intelligent author of nature), and moreover necessary; while in a system of nature which is merely an object of the senses, this combination could never occur except contingently and, therefore, could not suffice for ...
— The Critique of Practical Reason • Immanuel Kant

... analogy, and they used that method of argument freely in their discussions on the inspiration of the Scriptures. God never pursues the plan of operating immediately upon nature. His laws are the mediate measures by which he communicates with man. Gravitation is an instrument he employs for the control of the material world. Thus, in some way, does God impress upon man's mind all that he wishes to reveal, without any necessity of direct inspiration. The doctrine was, therefore, rejected because ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst


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