mediate
Acting through a mediating agency, indirectActing through a mediating agency, indirect.
» He mediated between the two parties.
Meaning
3 sensesActing through a mediating agency, indirect.
acting through or dependent on an intervening agency
Intermediate between extremes.
Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
Examples
8 sentencesHe mediated between the two parties.
He always tends to mediate in arguments between friends.
He called for the talks to be internationally mediated and held outside the country.
Interpreters mediate between different cultures.
deDolmetscher vermitteln zwischen unterschiedlichen Kulturen. — Yorwba
An independent advisor has been brought in to mediate between the unions and the employers.
Origin
The adjective is first attested in the 1440s in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from MidThe 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).
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Synonyms
2 synonyms- being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series:in-betweenmiddle