mediumizes

Verb

mediumize (third-person singular simple present mediumizes, present participle mediumizing, simple past and past participle mediumized)

1. To act as a medium; to channel or speak for a spirit or noncorporal being.
   • During the forty years that Moses mediumized for the god of the Hebrews, there was no need of diviners or their arts.1897, Alfred Ellingwood Giles, English and Parental Versions of the Bible and Its Deity, page 51
2. To make into a spiritual medium; to imbue with spiritual energy.
   • And each guardian mind of the spiritual group contributes its propoertion of magnetic emanation, to form a line of communication, just as each person in the terrestrial group lends his or her mental and physical influence to mediumize the table.1873, M. J. Williamson, Modern Diabolism: Commonly Called Modern Spiritualism
3. To make into or act as a medium of exchange.
   • None of the Alliance Exchanges issue anything intended as a circulating medium. The Bank alone mediumizes securites.1898, C. L. Bancroft, The American Trades Alliance, page 221
4. To transition into using a medium of exchange.
   • The discovery of America brought on expansion of commerce and trade, and the guild system was no longer able to meet the demands made upon it; then with the advent of capitalism, trade became gradually mediumized and the demand for increase in production was accomplished by the numerous inventions...1920, Nursing World - Volumes 64-65, page 210
5. To act as an intermediary; to translate from one context to another.
   • Whatever has happened outside this brain, without its instigation, is automatically transformed by the process of assimilating, or mediumizing, it.1972, Parker Tyler, The shadow of an airplane climbs the Empire State Building
6. To finish by applying a medium.
   • There is no better method, beside retouching upon mediumized films than using a hard shellac varnish, and rubbing over the solution of resin in turpentine, mentioned in the chapter on Materials.1880, J. P. Ourdan, The Art of Retouching, page 88

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