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.


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