Propitiate vs Mediate - What's the difference?
propitiate | mediate |
(dated) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.
* Alexander Pope
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 propitiate
is (dated) to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.As an adjective mediate is
.propitiate
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Verb
(propitiat)- Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, / The god propitiate , and the pest assuage.
Synonyms
* appeaseDerived terms
* propitiationmediate
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.