The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mediate \Me"di*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mediated; p. pr. & vb. n. Mediating.] [LL. mediatus, p. p. of mediare to mediate. See Mediate, a.]
To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene. [R.]
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of mediate English)
Usage examples of "mediating".
Royalist critics on the Right charged that his mediating, unifying role as National Guard commander was hopelessly undercut by his advocacy of natural rights and his tolerance of popular movements that could lead only to social disintegration.
If you are mediating in a court-sponsored program and the mediator has power to make a recommendation regarding child custody and visitation, this becomes all the more important.
Or, if you are a homeowner mediating against a contractor, a contractor mediator may be suspect in your eyes.
For example, disputes between roommates may be a common occurrence in a college town, and centers in rural areas may specialize in mediating disputes between farmers and food storage companies or bankers, as well as disputes between mobile home park owners and tenants.
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.
In nearly all cases, however, mediating is far less expensive than going to court.
Yet it is meant also to refer to the dialectical interactions that characterized every phase of a long career in which he was forever mediating between revolutions, friends, and political cultures.
Parisian National Guard strained his mediating talents beyond their limits because the crowd and the Assembly and the king and the aristocrats developed widely divergent interpretations about the nature of the Revolution.
Federation and his mediating leadership of the Guard to mean that all true patriots could join in the defense of shared national values.
The mediating work of intellectual introductions, which Lafayette took up because there was no outlet for liberal action or liberal theory in Napoleonic France, thus became an enduring aspect of his reconstructed postrevolutionary identity.
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.
Greek Revolution became another prominent theme in his mediating, symbolic involvement with nineteenth-century Romantic culture.
Greedy American agents and shipbuilders, by contrast, had taken advantage of the Greeks to extract the largest possible profits, Everett reported in a letter that placed Lafayette in his familiar position of mediating between people on both sides of the Atlantic.
The mediating, symbolic history of Lafayette could therefore link politics and culture as well as nations or historical eras or generations.
Lafayette and Malibran thus developed rapidly in December of 1830, so that while Lafayette was mediating between various political factions in Paris, mourning the death of his friend Benjamin Constant, and ultimately losing his command of the French National Guard, he was also consulting friends about the legal grounds for dissolving a marriage and mediating the separation of an opera singer and her angry husband.