mediate

Meanings

Verb

• 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; to convey.
• To act as a spiritualistic medium.

Adjective

• Acting through a mediating agency, indirect.
• Intermediate between extremes.
• Gained or effected by a medium or condition.

Origin

• Borrowed from Late Latin mediatus, past participle of mediare (in Medieval Latin, also “to be in the middle, be or become between, mediate”), from Latin medius ("middle").