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Definition of Mediate
1. Adjective. Acting through or dependent on an intervening agency. "The disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
Similar to: Indirect, Mediated
Antonyms: Immediate
Derivative terms: Mediateness
2. Verb. Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences. "Sam and Sue mediate"; "He mediated a settlement"
Generic synonyms: Negociate, Negotiate, Talk Terms
Derivative terms: Arbiter, Arbitrable, Arbitrament, Arbitration, Arbitration, Arbitrative, Arbitrator, Arbitrement, Intercession, Intermediation, Intermediator, Mediation, Mediation, Mediator
3. Adjective. Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series. "The middle point on a line"
4. Verb. Occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others. "Mediate between the old and the new"
Definition of Mediate
1. a. Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
2. v. i. To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene.
3. v. t. To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.
Definition of Mediate
1. Verb. (transitive) to resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) to intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement ¹
3. Verb. To divide into two equal parts. ¹
4. Adjective. acting through a mediating agency ¹
5. Adjective. intermediate between extremes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mediate
1. to act between disputing parties in order to bring about a settlement [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Medical Definition of Mediate
1. Indirect, accomplished by the aid of an intervening medium. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mediate
Literary usage of Mediate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"Here is a case of mediate association." This form of association Titchener ...
Evidently what Titchener understands by mediate association is a case where ..."
2. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"It is mediate because, like the individual's inner system, it is recognized ...
It is " mediate " besides in the additional sense—a sense also true of the ..."
3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"mediate POWERS. Those incident to primary powers, given by a principal to his
agent For example : the general authority given to collect, receive, ..."
4. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1908)
"The principle of mediate comparison is only one form of a law which holds in ...
Here also intermediaries may be skipped, and mediate comparison be carried ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on Estates: With Preliminary Observation of the ...by Richard Preston by Richard Preston (1828)
"And when it is said that an estate is immediately preceding another, it must be
understood that there is not any mediate or intervening estate. ..."
6. Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"Providence considered as mediate, particular, universal, ordinary, and
extraordinary.—Question of special providence discussed at length. ..."
7. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"But if no knowledge is, in a psychological sense, purely immediate, we have still
to inquire if any is purely mediate. It will be granted that all knowledge ..."
8. Jurisprudence, Or, The Theory of the Law by John William Salmond (1907)
"The possession thus held hy one man through another may be termed mediate, while
that which is acquired or retained directly or personally may be ..."
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