Mediate Definition
mēdē-āt
mediated, mediates, mediating
verb
mediated, mediates, mediating
To be in an intermediate position or location.
Webster's New World
To resolve or settle (differences) by working with all the conflicting parties.
Mediate a labor-management dispute.
American Heritage
To be an intermediary or conciliator between persons or sides.
Webster's New World
To bring about by conciliation.
Mediated a settlement.
Webster's New World
To bring about (a settlement, for example) by working with all the conflicting parties.
American Heritage
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adjective
Intermediate or intervening.
Webster's New World
Dependent on, acting by, or connected through some intervening agency; related indirectly.
Webster's New World
Being in a middle position.
American Heritage
Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
Wiktionary
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Origin of Mediate
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From Late Latin mediatus, past participle of mediare (“to divide in the middle, in Medieval Latin also to be in the middle, be or become between, mediate"), from medius (“middle").
From Wiktionary
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Late Latin mediāre mediāt- to be in the middle from Latin medius middle medhyo- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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