mediumize

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. - 1897, Alfred Ellingwood Giles, English and Parental Versions of the Bible and Its Deity, page 51:
   • because then our périsprit, acting on the périsprit of him whom we mediumize, has only to give impulsion to the hand which serves us as a pen-holder; while with insufficient mediums we are obliged to perform a labor...
   • When we say that to make myths is to hypersuggest we are not also saying that to mediumize is to hypersuggest . That would be an aberration because the best work of the medium is not done when the individual is in a...
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...
   • Their exercise promotes and advances the individual to the superior state; to attain which, many minds are obliged first to be magnetized or mediumized. - 1910, Andrew Jackson Davis, The Philosophy of Spiritual...
   • He says that spirits do the healing and that he is mediumized throughout his healings. - 2005, Harald W. Tietze, Miracle Healing, page 67:
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. - 1898, C. L. Bancroft, The American Trades Alliance, page 221:
   • ... the former professedly reducing money to simply and only a medium of exchange, a counter in trade, destroying all its private investment and private money-loaning qualities by placing upon the collectivity the duty...
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...
   • There was a considerable increase in the number of small and medium peasant's holdings, a mediumizing process taking place in the whole Yugoslav economy at the time as a result; - 1962, Borislav T. Blagojević, The Legal...
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. - 1972, Parker Tyler, The shadow of an airplane climbs the Empire State...
   • In terms of "mediumizing" between art and life, to use Mary Josephson's idea, it is one of the most consummate of Rauschenberg's achievements, all of which are defined by temporal signatures. - 1982, Brian O'Doherty,...
   • to quote in this connection the words of the French philosopher Baudrillard: 'Anyhow, to me the whole problem seems to be that nowadays events are no longer mediumized, mediated by the media, but that they are rather...
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. - 1880, J. P. Ourdan,...
   • Unsatisfactory attempts at retouching may be removed with the finger rag slightly mostened with spirits of turpentine (the best), and then the negative is re-mediumized with the regular retouching medium for another...
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. - 1922, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga - Volume 3:
   • We have no intention to minimize, or even mediumize, the difficulties and disappointments that lie ahead in the task of creating computer programs capable of understanding natural language. - 1980, Richard A. Guedj,...
   • In that case we would be better off maximizing, or perhaps "mediumizing", the numbers of postulated changes. - 2013, Numerical Taxonomy, page 327: