different between mediate vs interpose

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

English

Etymology

From Middle French interposer, influenced by poser (“to place, put”), from Latin interp?n?, from inter (“between”) + p?n? (“to place, put”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n.t??p??z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n.t??po?z/
• Rhymes: -??z
• Hyphenation: in?ter?pose

Verb

interpose (third-person singular simple present interposes, present participle interposing, simple past and past participle interposed)

1. (transitive) To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar^[1], Act II, scene i,

     What watchful cares do interpose themselves

     Betwixt your eyes and night?

   • 1785, William Cowper, The Task^[2], book II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Thomas Dobson, 1787, page 30:

     Lands intersected by a narrow frith

     Abhor each other. Mountains interposed

     Make enemies of nations who had else

     Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

2. (transitive) To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost^[3], book XII, lines 1-5:

     As one who in his journey bates at Noone,

     Though bent on speed, so her the Archangel paused

     Betwixt the world destroyed and world restored,

     If Adam aught perhaps might interpose;

     Then with transition sweet new Speech resumes.

3. (transitive) To offer (one's help or services).
4. (intransitive) To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
   • 1782, William Cowper, “Truth”, in Poems, London: J. Johnson:

     Suppose, unlook’d for in a scene so rude,

     Long hid by interposing hill or wood,

     Some mansion neat and elegantly dress’d,

     By some kind hospitable heart possess’d

     Offer him warmth, security and rest;

5. (intransitive) To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.

Synonyms

• (To insert something (or oneself) between other things): insert
• (To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment): interrupt

Translations

Anagrams

• entropies, isentrope, tropeines

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: interposent, interposes

Verb

interpose

1. first-person singular present indicative of interposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of interposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of interposer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of interposer
5. second-person singular imperative of interposer

Italian

Verb

interpose

1. third-person singular past historic of interporre

Anagrams

• inesperto
• peroniste
• riponeste