mediate
verb (used with object)
to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
mediately
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a word derived from
mediate.
Example Sentences
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The sheriff listened with a distracted look on his face, but when I said I was going to see the judge, he agreed to move the child into a protected area im- mediately.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 22, 2014
Priced at $100, the new stock im mediately sold "when, as and if" above $107.
From Time Magazine Archive
Im mediately after we were finished eating, Mambu gave each boy his share of the money.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
What we call the wind is mediately the air moving but causatively, and immediately, and more profoundly, it is the action of the vito-magnetic fluid.
From New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces by Henry Raymond Rogers
Thus a complete system of natural rights of property was made to rest mediately or immediately upon a postulated original division by agreement or a subsequent discovery and occupation.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
