The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mediately \Me"di*ate*ly\, adv. In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; -- opposed to immediately.
God worketh all things amongst us mediately.
--Sir W.
Raleigh.
The king grants a manor to A, and A grants a portion of
it to B. In this case. B holds his lands immediately of
A, but mediately of the king.
--Blakstone.
Wiktionary
adv. In a mediate manner; by the intervention of an intermediary agent or means; by indirect mediation; indirectly.
Usage examples of "mediately".
No doubt, as the authority of the church is derived immediately from God in a supernatural manner, and as she holds that the state derives its authority only mediately from him, in a natural mode, she asserts the superiority of her authority, and that, in case of conflict between the two powers, the civil must yield.
This time he noticed the bike rack but then he im-f mediately dismissed the idea that Hrubek had stolen a cycle.