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mediately, adv.|ˈmiːdɪətlɪ|
[f. mediate a. + -ly2.]
In a mediate way: opposed to immediately.
1. By the intervention of an intermediary or medium; (in feudal law) through a mesne lord; through a medium or mediator, or by a means; by indirect agency, or by mediation, in indirect connexion; indirectly.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 125 Whether it be immediatly of y⊇ holy goost, or els mediatly, as by y⊇ mynistracyon of some good aungell. 1550Latimer Last Serm. bef. Edw. VI (1584) 107 She [sc. the woman] is not immediately under God, but mediately. 1596Bacon Max. & Use Com. Law ii. (1635) 30 All lands are holden of the crowne either mediately or immediately. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies vi. iv. 439 For if they signifie things mediately they are no more letters nor writings, but ciphers and pictures. a1661Fuller Worthies, Worc. (1662) ii. 174, I confess he might be mediatly of Welch extraction, but born in this County. a1703Burkitt On N.T. Matt. v. 8 They shall see him spiritually and mediately in this life: gloriously and immediately in the life to come. 1823J. Marshall Const. Opin. (1839) 276 Persons who claimed immediately from the crown, or mediately, through its grantees or deputies. 1855Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. App. (1859) II. 520 Something different from the realities externally existing, through which, however, they are mediately represented. 1874Sully Sensation & Intuition 45 We compare the sensations mediately, by means of the average strength of either class. 1889Pater G. de Latour (1896) 50 He derived his impressions of things not directly from them, but mediately from other people's impressions about them.
2. With a person or thing intervening in time, space, order, or succession.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 223* Here the particle (not) is mediately prefixed before (perisheth). 1794Morse Amer. Geog. 139 Running waters, when turbid, will deposit, first, the coarsest and heaviest particles, mediately, those of the several intermediate degrees of fineness, and ultimately..the most light. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 370 An estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee, or in tail. 1890Sat. Rev. 13 Sept. 326/2 A day spent..mediately in pursuit of sport, it may be immediately in mountain-climbing. |