Definition: mediate

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

mediate
     adj 1: acting through or dependent on an intervening agency; "the
            disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
            [ant: immediate]
     2: being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series;
        "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate
        position"; "the middle point on a line" [syn: in-between,
         middle]
     v :  act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;
         "He interceded in the family dispute";"He mediated a
         settlement" [syn: intercede, intermediate, liaise,
         arbitrate]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Mediate \Me"di*ate\, v. t.
   1. To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as
      a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.

   2. To divide into two equal parts. [R.] --Holder.
Mediate \Me"di*ate\, a. [L. mediatus, p. p. of mediare, v. t.,
   to halve, v. i., to be in the middle. See Mid, and cf.
   Moiety.]
   1. Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed;
      intervening; intermediate. --Prior.

   2. Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument;
      not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an
      intervening agent or condition.

   3. Gained or effected by a medium or condition. --Bacon.

            An act of mediate knowledge is complex. --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.
Mediate \Me"di*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mediated; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Mediating.] [LL. mediatus, p. p. of mediare to
   mediate. See Mediate, a.]
   1. To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene. [R.]

   2. To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each,
      esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or
      agreement; as, to mediate between nations.