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intermediacy rare.|ɪntəˈmiːdɪəsɪ| [f. intermediate a.: see -acy.] The state of being intermediate; intermediateness; intermediate agency, intervention.
1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. iii. (1727) 126 (note), In Birds, the auditory Nerve is affected by the Impressions made on the Membrane, by only the Intermediacy of the Columella. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney III. 177, I had..fallen into a purgatorial state of intermediacy between sleeping and waking. c1840Sir W. Hamilton Logic App. II. 430 To preserve the order of intermediacy, so that..we assign the middle place to the middle term. |