| 释义 |
mediating, ppl. a.|ˈmiːdɪeɪtɪŋ|
[f. mediate v. + -ing2.]
That mediates.
1. Of opinions and their advocates: Tending to mediate between extremes.
a1729J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) 309 That Corruption of Manners we lament in the World, we shall find..owing to some mediating Schemes, that offer to comprehend the different Interests of Sin and Religion. 1885Athenæum 4 July 10/3 Dr. Salmon, being no mediating scholar, accepts the last twelve verses of St. Mark's Gospel.
2. a. Acting as a mediator.
1749Fielding Tom Jones vii. iii, Regard to my family hath made me take upon myself to be the mediating power. 1817Parl. Deb. 1351 A mediating party between the zealous friends of the practice and the public. 1866Liddon Bampt. Lect. vi. (1875) 306 St. Paul dwells often and earnestly upon our Lord's mediating Humanity.
b. Psychol. Interposing between an idea, intention, etc., and its result; acting as a mediator (sense 6).
1953C. E. Osgood Method & Theory Exper. Psychol. iii. ix. 401 Certain stimulus patterns..are variably associated with systems of mediating reactions. 1963W. W. Grings in M. H. Marx Theories Contemp. Psychol. xxxi. 517 The lack of a clear-cut basis for deducing the nature of the mediating response. 1966W. N. Runquist in J. B. Sidowski Exper. Methods Psychol. 503/2 A common mediating association (‘army-ocean’, mediated by ‘navy’). 1968K. Duncker in Wason & Johnson-Laird Thinking & Reasoning ii. 34 The final form of a solution is typically attained by way of mediating phases of the process. 1971Sutherland & Mackintosh Mechanisms of Animal Discrimination Learning ix. ii. 309 The nature of the ‘mediating processes’ possibly available to children but not to animals.
Hence ˈmediatingly adv.
1841Blackw. Mag. XLIX. 466 To go mediatingly..between others. |