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mediate

me·diate

US/ˈmidieɪt/ uncommon
verb (2) adjective (2)

verb

1.

act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

  • “He interceded in the family dispute”
  • “He mediated a settlement”
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2.

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

  • “mediate between the old and the new”

adjective

1.

acting through or dependent on an intervening agency

  • “the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact”
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2.

being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series

  • “adolescence is an awkward in-between age”
  • “in a mediate position”
  • “the middle point on a line”
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Origin

The adjective is first attested in the 1440s in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from Middle English mediat(e) (“intermediate; intercessory”), borrowed from Late Latin mediātus, perfect passive participle of mediō (“to divide in the middle; (in Medieval Latin) to be in the middle, be or become between, mediate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from medius (“middle”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Phrases

  • antibody-mediated rejection

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