mediate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 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).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: mediates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mediating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mediated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mediated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Negotiators managed to mediate a ceasefire.
gloss: To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "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."
gloss: To divide into two equal parts.
pos: verb
examples: 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 Thouſand of vvhich Paces made a Mile, vvhich is a Meaſure ſerving for any diſtance on Earth, and even for the Height of the Sphears.
gloss: To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.
pos: verb
examples: 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 and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter.
[A]s much as language in our modern technological world is mediated through the written word, quantitatively spoken language still reigns supreme.
gloss: To act as a spiritualistic medium.
pos: verb
gloss: To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.
pos: verb
gloss: Acting through a mediating agency, indirect.
pos: adj
examples: 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, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented.
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 child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.
gloss: Intermediate between extremes.
pos: adj
examples: soon the mediate clouds shall be dispell'd
gloss: Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
pos: adj
examples: mediate positive proof
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 implements are prepared or premediated in advance of future acts.
Related words: intermediate
mean
median
mediation
mediator
medium
immediate
immediately
Derived words: antibody-mediated rejection
electromediated
hypermediated
immunomediate
mediatable
mediatingly
mediative
nonmediated
nonmediating
telemediated
unmediated
mediately
mediateness
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