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mediacy|ˈmiːdɪəsɪ|
[In sense 1 prob. ad. L. mediātio mediation, on the analogy of ns. in -acy (cf. OF. mediatie); in sense 2 f. mediate a.: see -acy.]
†1. The function of a mediator; mediation. Obs.
1400Prymer in Maskell Mon. Rit. II. 34 Graunte us..that thurȝ hir deseruyngis and hir mediacie we be worthi to come to the hil that is crist.
2. Logic and Philos. Mediateness.
1853Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (ed. 2) 663 Were there in these syllogisms no occult conversion of an undeclared consequent, no mediacy from the antecedent, they could not [etc.]. 1864Bowen Logic viii. 250 The mediacy being concealed by the concealment of the mental inference which really precedes. 1865J. Grote Explor. Philos. i. 119 How do presentation and representation thus viewed, stand related to the notions of mediacy and immediacy of knowledge? |