Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a mediating function; acting as a mean, medium, or mediator; mediatorial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation.
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- adjective Pertaining to
mediation .
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Examples
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At 3.0 metres below sea level, totally submerged, there is the underwater observation bulb, an intimate and mediative place.
Master of the Seven Seas Michael May 2009
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I agree with Julia...take up knitting, its mediative and you could end up with some cute socks or a killer cardigan!
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The lay of the land we are experiencing as we read this is the shape of the internal landscape of Frank's brain, the way his thoughts move in mediative, elaborative circles around certain recurring questions and themes.
The Lay of the Land (III) Bruce Schauble 2007
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The lay of the land we are experiencing as we read this is the shape of the internal landscape of Frank's brain, the way his thoughts move in mediative, elaborative circles around certain recurring questions and themes.
Archive 2007-01-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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The states, says Wilkinson, are not the only important "mediative institutions" between the individual and the national government.
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Ultimately I want to teach mediative, spiritual and dance orientated sessions with adults.
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It's less of a monument and more like an experience of a mediative walk, since you walk along a path and view statues, waterfalls, and quotations.
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If you run a blog related to hypnosis, NLP, focused trance, hyperempiria, guided imagery, mediative states, or the like that you feel would make a nice addition to the list, feel free to contact me about putting a link up.
Life of Brian: 2005
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If you run a blog related to hypnosis, NLP, focused trance, hyperempiria, guided imagery, mediative states, or the like that you feel would make a nice addition to the list, feel free to contact me about putting a link up.
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However, when the police adopted a mediative approach the message to the criminals was: "break the law and we will negotiate".
oroboros commented on the word mediative
"In analyzing the difference between the recognition awakening to Reality and the theoretical acceptance without recognition, it seems that in the latter instance there is a quality that might be called mediative distance, while in the case of recognition there is the closeness of immediacy." Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Experience and Philosophy p. 258
October 9, 2010