See Also: mediate(medicine)
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mediate contagion(medicine)
mediate percussion(medicine)
mediate transfusion(medicine)
MEDIATE, POWERS(law)

mediate(1) (iou)



mediate adjective. LME.
[Latin mediatus pa. pple of mediare: see MEDIATE verb, -ATE2.]
Intermediate or intervening between in state, position, time, etc. Now rare. LME.
a. spec. (Hist.) (Of a feudal lord or tenant) related through an intermediary; (of a feudal relationship between lord and tenant) effected through an intermediary. LME.
b. gen. Dependent on or involving an intermediate person, thing, or action; (of a person or thing in relation to another) connected indirectly through another. L16.
mediate inference: arrived at through a middle term. mediate knowledge: obtained by means of inference or testimony rather than by intuition or perception.
Medicine. Of auscultation or percussion: performed with some object or instrument placed against the body. E19.
mediately adverb with an intermediary agency, with a person or thing intervening, indirectly LME.
mediateness noun E18.