mediary

mediary noun: an intermediary or go-between; Something or someone that passes information, instructions, or influence between one person or thing and another person or thing.

Noun

mediary (plural mediaries)

An intermediary or go-between; Something or someone that passes information, instructions, or influence between one person or thing and another person or thing.
- The reason why fear and obedience figure prominently in Hobbes's notion of covenant is that the model for it is biblical; more precisely, it is based on his reading of the covenant between God, his mediary Moses, and the Israelites in Exodus.1993, Joshua Mitchell, Not by Reason Alone, →ISBN
- In this last work, Freud introduced his tripartite division of the psyche into three agencies: the id, the repository of instinctual impulse; the ego, the executive mediary between the drives of the id and the external world; and the superego, an independent sector of the ego given shape by the...1995, John Russell, Hamlet and Narcissus, →ISBN, page 83

Adjective

mediary (not comparable)

Intermediate.
- I have made several three vision glasses for my patients requiring distant, near and mediary vision with signal success.1921, The Optical Journal and Review of Optometry - Volume 48, page 44
- The mediary role played by CNMs between the two systems is exemplified in that historically the “supervision and training of granny midwives [w]as the major responsibility for which the first American-trained nurse-midwives were prepared”2005, Randell E. Balin, Trends in Midwifery Research, →ISBN, page 30
Acting to cause or connect.
- In this last instance, simple relativity may be called mediary relativity, (a R b) where a is some medium, such as air, between the knower and the known, and b is the resultant knowledge.1928, Harvard University, Summaries of Theses Accepted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, page 134
- Because language intervenes between us and reality, so to speak, categorizing reality for us, Weisgerber believes that the speakers of different languages live in different 'linguistic mediary worlds' (sprachliche Zwischenwelten).1968, Robert L. Miller, The Linguistic Relativity Principle and Humboldtian Ethnoliguistics, →ISBN, page 54
(dated) Storing data that is written by one process so that it can be read by another process.
- This tape becomes the system mediary input tape and is in turn processed by the system.1959, Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, page 155
- Many applications, however, require the use of mediary, or scratch files.1962, NASA SP, page 26
occurring during the course of a disease.
- Mediary disinfection, that occurring during the course of the disease, is of great value.1915, New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Health, Reprint Series - Issues 39-63, page 19
- With this disease and probably with every other disease mediary disinfection is very much more important than terminal disinfection.1916, Wisconsin State Board of Health, Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference of Health Officers of the State of Wisconsin, page 65
Having a primary hue (red, blue, or gold), as opposed to one that can be created by mixing colors with primary hues.
- Charles king of France by an angel a shield of blue with three fleur-de-lis of gold together with other armour: and on both these occasions the foundation and field of the arms was azure, and this was superior to the gold. Therefore it is clear that this colour is the chief of all mediary and...1943, Evan John Jones, Medieval Heraldry: Some Fourteenth Century Heraldic Works, page 19
- The colours primary in themselves are the colours white and black; the colours truly mediary are blue, gold, and red; the sub-mediary colours are green and any Similar if there are any.2011, Carole P. Biggam, Carole A. Hough, Christian J. Kay, New Directions in Colour Studies, →ISBN, page 200
Defining or inferring a generalization or category of meaning.
- All is continuous, as Thirdness, generality, a temporal and mediary collusion of the values of the possible (as Firstness) and the singular (as Secondness).1991, Floyd Merrell, Signs Becoming Signs: Our Perfusive, Pervasive Universe, page 93
- Thirdness can be tentatively qualified as that which brings about mediation between two other entities in such a manner that they are related to each other in the same way they are related to the third entity as a result of its mediary act.2000, Susan Petrilli, La traduzione, →ISBN, page 86

Examples of mediary in a sentence

Because these uprisings were work-related and directed at employers, the state acted as mediary.2007, James M. Brophy, Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850, →ISBN:
Sixth, when no mediary is present, each interaction participant can be said to form part of the other's environment.2012, Rolfe A. Leary, Interaction theory in forest ecology and management, →ISBN, page 36:
This converted data is written on the mediary output tape immediately behind the absolute program which is going to read it.1964, F. Peter Fisher, George F. Swindle, Computer programming systems, page 564:
Concurrent or mediary disinfection is the immediate disinfection of the bodily discharges of the patient or other substances and articles which may have been contaminated by his use of them.1927, Carl Esselstyn McCombs, City Health Administration, page 133:

Forms of mediary

plural	mediaries

Questions about mediary

What does mediary mean?: Mediary means an intermediary or go-between; Something or someone that passes information, instructions, or influence between one person or thing and another person or thing.
How do you use mediary in a sentence?: Because these uprisings were work-related and directed at employers, the state acted as mediary.
What part of speech is mediary?: Mediary can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of mediary?: The plural of mediary is mediaries.

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