different between intermediary vs mediately

English

Etymology

From French intermédiaire.

Adjective

intermediary (not comparable)

1. Intermediate.

Derived terms

• intermediarily

Translations

Noun

intermediary (plural intermediaries)

1. An agent acting as a mediator between sides to facilitate agreement or cooperation.

   Synonyms: mediator, middleman, go-between, intercessor

   • A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world […]

2. A person or organisation in an intermediate position (in a transaction, agreement, supply chain etc.)

   Synonyms: middleman, broker

   The intermediary between the manufacturer and retailer is the wholesaler

3. One or several stages of an event which occurs after the start and before the end.

Translations

English

Etymology

mediate +? -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?di.?tli/
• Hyphenation: me?di?ate?ly

Adverb

mediately (not comparable)

1. In a mediate manner, by the intervention of an intermediary agent or means; indirectly. [from 15th c.]

   Synonym: indirectly

   Antonyms: directly, immediately

   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, XLIII:

     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 […]

   • 1861, Sir William Hamilton, The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton (page 318)

     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.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “mediately”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• time delay, time-delay