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mediate
[ verb mee-dee-eyt; adjective mee-dee-it ]
verb (used with object)
- to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
Synonyms: arbitrate
- to bring about (an agreement, accord, truce, peace, etc.) as an intermediary between parties by compromise, reconciliation, removal of misunderstanding, etc.
Synonyms: arbitrate
- to effect (a result) or convey (a message, gift, etc.) by or as if by an intermediary.
verb (used without object)
adjective
- acting through, dependent on, or involving an intermediate agency; not direct or immediate.
mediate
verb
- intr; usually foll by between or in to intervene (between parties or in a dispute) in order to bring about agreement
- to bring about (an agreement)
- to bring about (an agreement) between parties in a dispute
- to resolve (differences) by mediation
- intr to be in a middle or intermediate position
- tr to serve as a medium for causing (a result) or transferring (objects, information, etc)
adjective
- occurring as a result of or dependent upon mediation
- See intermediatea rare word for intermediate
- logic (of an inference) having more than one premise, esp, being syllogistic in form
mediate
/ mē′dē-āt′ /
- To effect or convey a force between subatomic particles. The gauge bosons, for example, mediate the four fundamental forces of nature.
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Derived Forms
- ˈmediateness, noun
- ˈmediately, adverb
- ˌmediaˈtorially, adverb
- ˈmediˌator, noun
- ˈmediative, adjective
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Other Words From
- me·di·ate·ly [mee, -dee-it-lee], adverb
- me·di·ate·ness [mee, -dee-it-nis], noun
- self-me·di·at·ing adjective
- un·me·di·at·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mediate1
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Example Sentences
The deputy offered by Leung to mediate, Carrie Lam, is also hated by many.
I know for a fact that in my own case Oman was asked to mediate on our behalf directly by the US government.
I would try to mediate his feuds with other teachers or the more authoritarian vice principal before they blew up.
Savile allegedly helped to mediate between Charles and Diana as their marriage foundered.
The fight was so harsh that Jiang Zemin [the former president] had to mediate.
The critic steps in between this satirist and the poet—steps in to mediate.
These bodies were composed of the mediate prelates, the mediate nobles and representatives of the mediate cities.
Maximilian found time to make earnest but unavailing efforts to mediate between his cousin, Philip II.
We may also classify knowledge from another point of view as necessary (or immediate), and demonstrated (or mediate).
It is right that in the designs of nature pleasure should only be a mediate end, or a means; but for art it is the highest end.
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