2. To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation
or agreement; as, to mediate between nations.
Mediate
(Me"di*ate), v. t.
1. To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate
a peace.
2. To divide into two equal parts. [R.] Holder.
Mediately
(Me"di*ate*ly) adv. In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by
means; — opposed to immediately.
God worketh all things amongst us mediately.
Sir W. Raleigh.
The king grants a manor to A, and A grants a portion of it to B. In this case. B holds his lands immediately
of A, but mediately of the king.
Blakstone. Mediateness
(Me"di*ate*ness), n. The state of being mediate.
Mediation
(Me`di*a"tion) n. [OE. mediacioun, F. médiation. See Mediate, a.]
1. The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means,
or instrument; interposition; intervention.
The soul [acts] by the mediation of these passions.
South. 2. Hence, specifically, agency between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them; entreaty for
another; intercession. Bacon.
Mediative
(Me"di*a*tive) a. Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts. Beaconsfield.
Mediatization
(Me`di*at`i*za"tion) n. [Cf. F. médiatisation.] The act of mediatizing.
Mediatize
(Me"di*a*tize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mediatized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mediatizing.] [Cf. F. médiatiser.]
To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; — specifically applied to the
annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a
nominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank.
The misfortune of being a mediatized prince.
Beaconsfield. Mediator
(Me"di*a`tor) n. [L. mediator: cf. E. médiateur.] One who mediates; especially, one who interposes
between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them; hence, an intercessor.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
1 Tim. ii. 5. Mediatorial
(Me`di*a*to"ri*al) a. Of or pertaining to a mediator, or to mediation; mediatory; as, a mediatorial
office. — Me`di*a*to"ri*al*ly, adv.
My measures were . . . healing and mediatorial.
Burke. Mediatorship
(Me"di*a`tor*ship) n. The office or character of a mediator.
Mediatory
(Me"di*a*to*ry) a. Mediatorial.
Mediatress
(Me`di*a"tress Me`di*a*"trix) n. [L. mediatrix, f. of mediator: cf. F. médiatrice.] A female
mediator.
