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Mediate

verb

(past & past part. mediated; pres. part. mediating)

1.

Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences. Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise. "He mediated a settlement"

2.

Occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others.

adjective

1.

Acting through or dependent on an intervening agency.

2.

Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series. Synonyms: in-between, middle. "In a mediate position" , "The middle point on a line"

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"Mediate" Quotes from Famous Books

... quietness in his mind, and also constrain him to love him, and live to him who loved him, and gave him life and happiness out of love. Yet this holds true that the apostle saith, "the law is not of faith," to wit, in a Mediator and Redeemer. It was a bond of immediate friendship; there needed none to mediate between God and man; there needed no reconciler where there was no odds nor distance. But the gospel is of faith in a Mediator; it is the soul plighting its hope upon Jesus Christ in its desperate necessity, ...

— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

... the Civil War in America?" This was differently worded, yet contained little variation from his former question of June 13, and this time Palmerston replied briefly that the Government certainly would like to mediate if it saw any hope of success but that at present "both parties would probably reject it. If a different situation should arise the Government would be glad to act[696]." This admission was now seized upon by Lindsay who, on July 11, introduced a motion demanding consideration ...

— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams

... the other hand, we owe comparatively little to the direct Teutonic influence. The native Anglo-Saxon culture was low, and even before its transplantation to Britain it had undergone some modification by mediate mercantile transactions with Rome and the Mediterranean states. The alphabet, coins, and even a few southern words, (such as "alms") had already filtered through to the shores of the Baltic. After the colonisation of ...

— Early Britain - Anglo-Saxon Britain • Grant Allen

... adherents, were condemned to a second exile. Their applause would have sanctified the murder of an impious tyrant, but his assassin and successor, the second Michael, was tainted from his birth with the Phrygian heresies: he attempted to mediate between the contending parties; and the intractable spirit of the Catholics insensibly cast him into the opposite scale. His moderation was guarded by timidity; but his son Theophilus, alike ignorant of fear and pity, was the last and most cruel of the Iconoclasts. The enthusiasm of the times ran ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon

... prebends endured this persecution with incredible patience. Again the governor wrote a letter, [endeavoring] to mediate in the question of granting a dispensation [to the cabildo] for their irregular government, and engaged the bishop of Sinopolis as his agent. Ybanez went to the dean to tell him that all would be settled according ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898--Volume 39 of 55 • Various

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