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mediate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin mediatus, past participle of mediare (to divide in the middle) (in Medieval Latin, also “to be in the middle, be or become between, mediate”), from Latin medius (middle).

Pronunciation

  • (verb) (US) IPA(key): /?midie?t/
  • (adjective) (US) IPA(key): /?midi.?t/

Verb

mediate (third-person singular simple present mediates, present participle mediating, simple past and past participle mediated)

  1. (transitive) To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
  2. (intransitive) To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
  3. To divide into two equal parts.
    • 1701, William Holder, A Discourse Concerning Time
      Space from the elevation of one Foot, to the same Foot set down again, mediated by a step of the other Foot a Pace []
  4. To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.
  5. To act as a spiritualistic medium.

Related terms

  • mean
  • median
  • mediation
  • mediator
  • medium

Translations

Adjective

mediate

  1. Acting through a mediating agency, indirect.
    • 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.
    • 1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
      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.
  2. Intermediate between extremes.
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  3. Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
    • mediate positive proof

Derived terms

  • immediate
  • immediately
  • mediately

Translations

Further reading

  • mediate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • mediate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • medaite

Italian

Adjective

mediate f pl

  1. feminine plural of mediato

Verb

mediate

  1. second-person plural present of mediare
  2. second-person plural present subjunctive of mediare
  3. second-person plural imperative of mediare
  4. feminine plural past participle of mediare

Latin

Participle

medi?te

  1. vocative masculine singular of medi?tus

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intermeddle

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman entremedler (= Old French entremesler), from inter- + medler.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /??nt??m?d(?)l/
  • (US) IPA(key): /??nt??m?d?l/
  • Rhymes: -?d?l

Verb

intermeddle (third-person singular simple present intermeddles, present participle intermeddling, simple past and past participle intermeddled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To mix, mingle together. [14th-18thc.]
  2. (obsolete, reflexive) To get mixed up (with). [15th-17thc.]
  3. (intransitive) To butt in, to interfere in or with. [from 15thc.]
    • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
      The practice of Spain hath been, [] by war{{..}} and [] by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Book I, Ch.2:
      I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.

Synonyms

  • butt in, meddle

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