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mediatise

mediatise is the alternative spelling of mediatize.

Meaning of mediatize

Verb

mediatize (third-person singular simple present mediatizes, present participle mediatizing, simple past and past participle mediatized)

  1. To make (a state or leader under the Holy Roman Empire) into a mediate vassal rather than an immediate one, directly under the emperor; (by extension) to annex while preserving certain rights and titles.
    • In all, 112 imperial Estates were mediatized or lost to France, including virtually the entire church lands east of the Rhine […].2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 650
  2. To reduce the effect of (something) by introducing a mediating agent.
  3. To filter (an event etc.) through the mass media; to exploit (something or someone) for media exposure; to propagandize via social media.

Forms of mediatise

third-person singular presentmediatises
present participlemediatising
past participlemediatised
pastmediatised

Questions about mediatise

What is mediatise the alternative spelling of?
Mediatise is the alternative spelling of mediatize.

Words near mediatise in the dictionary

  1. mediational
  2. mediationally
  3. mediations
  4. mediatisation
  5. mediatisations
  6. mediatise
  7. mediatised
  8. mediatises
  9. mediatising
  10. mediative
  11. mediatively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mediatise (page history and authors); mediatize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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