Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To resolve or settle (differences) by working with all the conflicting parties.
- intransitive verb To bring about (a settlement, for example) by working with all the conflicting parties.
- intransitive verb To effect or convey as an intermediate agent or mechanism.
- intransitive verb Physics To convey (a force) between subatomic particles.
- intransitive verb To work with two or more disputants in order to bring about an agreement, settlement, or compromise.
- intransitive verb To settle or reconcile differences.
- intransitive verb To have a relation to two differing persons, groups, or things.
- adjective Acting through, involving, or dependent on an intervening agency.
- adjective Being in a middle position.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated between two extremes; lying in the middle; intermediate; intervening.
- Acting as a means or medium; not direct or immediate in operation; not final or ultimate.
- Effected by or due to the intervention of a mean or medium; derived from or dependent upon some intervening thing or act; not primary, direct, or independent.
- To occupy an intermediate place or position; be interposed; have the position of a mean.
- To have the function of a mean or means; effect a connection between other things, or a transition from one to the other.
- To intervene for the purpose of reconciliation; act as an intermediary for the settlement of a disagreement or discord; intercede.
- To take an intermediate stand; act moderately; avoid extremes.
- In spiritualism, specifically, to act as a medium.
- Synonyms See
interposition . - To effect by intervention, interposition, or any intermediary action.
- To effect a relation between or a transition from, as between two things, or from one thing to another; bring into relation by some intervening means or process.
- To harmonize; reconcile; settle, as a dispute, by intervention.
- To further by interceding, or by acting as a mediator.
- To divide into two equal or approximately equal parts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
- adjective Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.
- adjective Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
- transitive verb To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means.
- transitive verb rare To divide into two equal parts.
- intransitive verb rare To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene.
- intransitive verb To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or agreement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
resolve differences , or to bring about asettlement , betweenconflicting parties - verb intransitive to
intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement - verb To
divide into two equal parts. - adjective acting through a mediating agency
- adjective
intermediate betweenextremes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
- verb act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
- adjective acting through or dependent on an intervening agency
- adjective being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Other theologians hold that the definitions of dogmatic facts, in the wider and stricter acceptation, are received, not by Divine faith, but by ecclesiastical faith, which some call mediate Divine faith.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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All truth is either mediate, that is, derived from some other truth or truths; or immediate and original.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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In a recent press conference, Dolan offered to "mediate" a solution (read: pressure the Park51 planners into moving their project) because the situation reminds him of -- you guessed it -- the Catholic church's decision to move a prayer center away from Auschwitz.
Jeffrey Feldman: Lie About Auschwitz Fuels Park51 Hysteria 2010
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In a recent press conference, Dolan offered to "mediate" a solution (read: pressure the Park51 planners into moving their project) because the situation reminds him of -- you guessed it -- the Catholic church's decision to move a prayer center away from Auschwitz.
Jeffrey Feldman: Lie About Auschwitz Fuels Park51 Hysteria 2010
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He said that he was trying to kind of mediate and massage the relationship that has gone a little bit off track.
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In trying to find solutions to refugee problems everywhere, UNHCR must invariably "mediate", so to speak, between the concerns of states, and the rights, wishes and aspirations of refugees.
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a certain number of the bishops and abbots were invested by the king, while many others were appointed and invested by the nobles of the kingdom, the counts and the dukes (i.e. for the so-called mediate bishoprics).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Scions for topworking hickories have been employed for what I call "mediate" and
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As an argument or reasoning process: that kind of mediate inference by which from truths already known we advance to a knowledge of other truths necessarily implied in the former; the mental product or result of that process.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The Afrikander nationalists having failed to "mediate" in Pretoria and
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898
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