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Mediate is a related term of intermeddle.


As an adjective mediate

is .

As a verb intermeddle is

(obsolete|transitive) to mix, mingle together.

mediate

English

Verb

(mediat)
  • 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.
    • (Holder)
  • To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey

    • Related terms

    * mean * median * mediation * mediator * medium

    Adjective

  • Acting through a mediating agency.
  • * (Oliver Sacks)
    • 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.
  • Intermediate between extremes.
    • (Prior)
  • Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
    • An act of mediate knowledge is complex.

    Derived terms

    * mediately

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    intermeddle

    English

    Verb

    (intermeddl)
  • (obsolete) To mix, mingle together.
  • *:
  • *:Ryghte soo entryd he in to the chamber and cam toward the table of syluer / and whanne he came nyghe he felte a brethe that hym thoughte hit was entremedled with fyre whiche smote hym so sore in the vysage that hym thoughte it brente vysage / and there with he felle to the erthe and had no power to aryse
  • (obsolete, reflexive) To get mixed up ((with)).
  • *, II.29:
  • *:Amongst our other disputation, that of Fatum , hath much entermedled it selfe.
  • To butt in, to interfere (in) or (with).
  • *Francis Bacon
  • *:The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.
  • *1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Book I, Ch.2:
    • I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.

    Synonyms

    * butt in, meddle