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单词 mediacy
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mediacyn.

Brit. /ˈmiːdɪəsi/, U.S. /ˈmidiəsi/
Forms: late Middle English mediacie, late Middle English 1800s– mediacy.
Origin: Partly either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Partly (iii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French mediacie , mediatie ; Latin mediatus , -acy suffix; mediate adj.
Etymology: In sense 1 either < Anglo-Norman mediacie or Middle French mediatie (both end of 14th cent. in sense ‘mediation’) or independently < post-classical Latin mediatus mediate adj. + -acy suffix; compare post-classical Latin mediatio mediation n. In other senses independently < mediate adj. (see -acy suffix), in sense 2 probably after immediacy n.
1. Intercession. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [noun]
erndinga1000
mediationa1387
advocacyc1390
mediacya1425
meanc1450
moyen1454
interposition1462
mean1465
myance?a1513
advocation1532
intercession1534
advocateship?1555
intercessionment1593
interceding1600
intermise1612
means-making1617
intermission1647
interposal1687
spoke1867
a1425 (c1400) Primer (BL Add. 36683) in W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1882) III. 37 Graunte us..that thurȝ hir deseruyngis and hir mediacie we be worthi to come to..crist.
c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 7 (MED) Thrugh mediacy of mary chast, That helpes to safe vus of our syn.
2. Chiefly Philosophy. The fact or quality of being mediated by or derived from something else of the same kind or category; mediateness; (Logic) dependence on a middle term.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [noun] > obtained by inference > quality of
mediateness1704
mediacy1853
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > cognition > quality of being mediate
mediateness1704
mediacy1853
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [noun] > middle term > quality of being
mediacy1853
1853 W. Hamilton Discuss. Philos. & Lit. (ed. 2) 663 Were there in these syllogisms no occult conversion of an undeclared consequent, no mediacy from the antecedent, they could not [etc.].
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic viii. 250 The mediacy being concealed by the concealment of the mental inference which really precedes.
1865 J. Grote Exploratio Philosophica Pt. I i. 119 How do presentation and representation thus viewed, stand related to the notions of mediacy and immediacy of knowledge?
1881 New Englander May 325 This exaggeration of the opposition between Nature and Art, genius and labor,..intuition and reflection, immediacy and mediacy, etc., is an important key to seventeenth century thought.
1940 Mind 49 174 The purest piece of knowledge by acquaintance is already infected with mediacy.
1975 Philos. Q. 25 249 Immediacy versus mediacy, as modes of representation, constitute a critical distinction between ways in which a representation is said to represent its object.
3. gen. Indirect or intermediate agency, intermediacy; instrumentality.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > [noun]
workOE
operationa1393
workmanshipc1400
actionc1405
act?a1425
workinga1425
activityc1485
executiona1530
play1548
workfulness1570
inworking1587
acting1605
agency1606
operancea1625
transaction1663
operancyc1811
outworking1846
mediacy1854
functioning1856
1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 163/1 It becomes..rather a complicated question, whether they [sc. spirits] may not adopt the mediacy of electrical, or other forces, to communicate with us mortals.
1990 A. Burgess in Independent 16 Feb. 19/5 I feel it is possible, having made a new acquaintance of Lewis the man through Mr Wilson's admirable mediacy, for me to encounter once more Lewis the writer.
1993 A. L. Rowse in Times 5 Aug. 33/3 The flowering of classic Greek thought, through Arab mediacy, into our mathematics, medicine and the fuller knowledge of Aristotle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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