mediately

In a mediate manner, by the intervention of an intermediary agent or means; indirectly.

Adverb

  1. In a mediate manner, by the intervention of an intermediary agent or means; indirectly.
    • A second [question] is, whether these Eggs are immediately dropt into the Water by the Gnats themselves, or, mediately, are brought down by the falling rain […] - 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLIII:
    • 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,...

    Synonyms: indirectly

    Antonyms: directly immediately

Origin

From mediate + -ly.