Adorn vs Mediate - What's the difference?
adorn | mediate |
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
* Bible, Isa. lxi. 10
* Goldsmith
(obsolete) adornment
To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
To divide into two equal parts.
To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey
Acting through a mediating agency.
* (Oliver Sacks)
Intermediate between extremes.
Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
* Sir W. Hamilton
As a verb adorn
is to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.As a noun adorn
is (obsolete) adornment.As an adjective mediate is
.adorn
English
Verb
(en verb)- a man adorned with noble statuary and columns
- a character adorned with every Christian grace
- a gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters
- as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels
- At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.
Synonyms
* beautify * bedeck * decorate * deck * grace * ornament * prettify * See alsoNoun
- (Spenser)
Anagrams
* * * *mediate
English
Verb
(mediat)- (Holder)
Adjective
- Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.
- (Prior)
- (Francis Bacon)
- An act of mediate knowledge is complex.