mediate > define

verb

• Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.
  • usage: "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement"
  • synonyms: intercede, intermediate, liaise, arbitrate
• Occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others.
  • usage: "mediate between the old and the new"

adjective

• Acting through or dependent on an intervening agency.
  • usage: "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
• Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series.
  • usage: "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line"
  • synonyms: in-between, middle

• (a.) Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
• (a.) Acting by means or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.
• (v.t.) To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument or means; as, to mediate a peace.
• (v.t.) To divide into two equal parts.
• (a.) Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
• (a.) To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, especially for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or agreement; as, to mediate between nations.
• (a.) To be in the middle or between two; to intervene.