mediate
Acting through a mediating agency, indirect.
Adjective
- 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,...
- Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and...
- Intermediate between extremes.
- soon the mediate clouds shall be dispell'd - 1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “Charity”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
- mediate positive proof - 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and...
- The attempt of members of a society to observe and preserve mediate phases of acts in recurrent situations brings about the perpetuation of a mediate field in their society, in which a complex series of abstracted...
Origin
The adjective is first attested in the 1440s 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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- To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
- Negotiators managed to mediate a ceasefire.
- To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
- "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." - 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter...
- 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...
- 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...
- [A]s much as language in our modern technological world is mediated through the written word, quantitatively spoken language still reigns supreme. - 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New...
- To act as a spiritualistic medium.
- To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.
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