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mediation

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Medieval Latin mediationem (nominative mediatio ) "a division in the middle," noun of action from past participle stem of mediare (see mediator ). Related: Mediational .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mediation is a dynamic, structured, interactive process where a neutral third party assists disputing parties in resolving conflict through the use of specialized communication and negotiation techniques. All participants in mediation are encouraged to ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mediation \Me`di*a"tion\, n. [OE. mediacioun, F. m['e]diation. See Mediate , a.] The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention. The soul [acts] by ...

Usage examples of mediation.

Unlike mediation, arbitration requires you to give up control of your dispute to the arbitrator, who takes the place of judge and jury.

I will consider declaring the mediation closed and asking that an arbitrator be assigned to conduct a hearing and make an award.

For example, in our business ownership dispute, Ted, who is considering accepting a cash buyout offer for his stock from his partner, Mike, may want to step out of the mediation to call his accountant and find out what the tax consequences of the proposed plan might be.

From the moment that the divinity of Christ is denied, or that, thanks to the efforts of German ideology, He only symbolizes the man-god, the concept of mediation disappears and a Judaic world reappears.

Merlin has made so many prophecies: I mean Don Quixote of La Mancha, who once again, and to greater advantage than in past times, has revived in the present a long-forgotten knight errantry, and through his mediation and by his favor it may be that the spell over us will be broken, for great deeds are reserved for great men.

Nicholas in the greatest reverence, only praying to God through the mediation of this saint, whose picture is always suspended in the principal room of the house.

Philosophers disputed where this mediation was situated and what metaphysical level it occupied, but it was fundamental that in some way it be defined as an ineluctable condition of all human action, art, and association.

If they are able to continue mediating these kinds of cases successfully for more than a few months without burning out, they probably have developed pretty good mediation skills.

His mediating, symbolic role in Romantic culture, however, extended his earlier mediations to include a new generation of young people, a new connection between Enlightenment traditions and Romantic ideas, and a growing involvement with people who expressed their political concerns in art or literature rather than in government institutions.

For the success of the mediation proposal it would be more practical if the means to this end were made as simple as possible, and that use was made of the current diplomatic discussions, in immediate communication with the capitals of the Empires in question, in order to carry through a mediatory action to the result desired on all sides.

When he posed reason as the exclusive terrain of mediation between God and the world, he effectively reaffirmed dualism as the defining feature of experience and thought.

Blessed be the name of the Lord, that makes us to thole the tribulations of this world, and will reward us, through the mediation of Jesus, hereafter.

The emperor had solicited the mediation of his Britannic majesty, for compromising the differences between him and the court of Vienna.

The mediation that Descartes invoked in his reaffirmation of dualism is hypostatized by Kant, not in the divinity but nonetheless in a pseudo-ontological critique-in an ordering function of consciousness and an indistinct appetite of the will.

Though the weather was more inclement than ever, she ran out into the streets, determined to seek out the old Public LetterWriter and thank him for his mediation with the English milor, who surely had done this noble action.