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Dictionary definition · mediate

verb

  1. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences"He interceded in the family dispute"
  2. occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others"mediate between the old and the new"

adjective

  1. acting through or dependent on an intervening agency"the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
  2. being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series"adolescence is an awkward in-between age"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).