- act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
"He interceded in the family dispute"
"He mediated a settlement"

- occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
"mediate between the old and the new"

- acting through or dependent on an intervening agency
"the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"

- being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
"adolescence is an awkward in-between age"
"in a mediate position"
"the middle point on a line"

1. Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. Prior.

2. Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.

3. Gained or effected by a medium or condition. Bacon.

"An act of mediate knowledge is complex." -- Sir W. Hamilton.

1. To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene. [R.]

2. To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or agreement; as, to mediate between nations.

1. To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.

2. To divide into two equal parts. [R.] Holder.