mediacyn.

Brit.

/ˈmiːdɪəsi/, U.S.

/ˈmidiəsi/

Forms: late Middle English mediacie, late Middle English 1800s– mediacy.

Origin: Partly either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Partly (iii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French mediacie , mediatie ; Latin mediatus , -acy suffix; mediate adj.

Etymology: In sense 1 either < Anglo-Norman mediacie or Middle French mediatie (both end of 14th cent. in sense ‘mediation’) or independently < post-classical Latin mediatus mediate adj. + -acy suffix; compare post-classical Latin mediatio mediation n. In other senses independently < mediate adj. (see -acy suffix), in sense 2 probably after immediacy n.

†1. Intercession. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [noun]

erndinga1000

mediationa1387

advocacyc1390

mediacya1425

meanc1450

moyen1454

interposition1462

mean1465

myance?a1513

advocation1532

intercession1534

advocateship?1555

intercessionment1593

interceding1600

intermise1612

means-making1617

intermission1647

interposal1687

spoke1867

a1425 (c1400) Primer (BL Add. 36683) in W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1882) III. 37 Graunte us..that thurȝ hir deseruyngis and hir mediacie we be worthi to come to..crist.

c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 7 (MED) Thrugh mediacy of mary chast, That helpes to safe vus of our syn.

2. Chiefly Philosophy. The fact or quality of being mediated by or derived from something else of the same kind or category; mediateness; (Logic) dependence on a middle term.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [noun] > obtained by inference > quality of

mediateness1704

mediacy1853

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > cognition > quality of being mediate

mediateness1704

mediacy1853

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [noun] > middle term > quality of being

mediacy1853

1853 W. Hamilton Discuss. Philos. & Lit. (ed. 2) 663 Were there in these syllogisms no occult conversion of an undeclared consequent, no mediacy from the antecedent, they could not [etc.].

1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic viii. 250 The mediacy being concealed by the concealment of the mental inference which really precedes.

1865 J. Grote Exploratio Philosophica Pt. I i. 119 How do presentation and representation thus viewed, stand related to the notions of mediacy and immediacy of knowledge?

1881 New Englander May 325 This exaggeration of the opposition between Nature and Art, genius and labor,..intuition and reflection, immediacy and mediacy, etc., is an important key to seventeenth century thought.

1940 Mind 49 174 The purest piece of knowledge by acquaintance is already infected with mediacy.

1975 Philos. Q. 25 249 Immediacy versus mediacy, as modes of representation, constitute a critical distinction between ways in which a representation is said to represent its object.

3. gen. Indirect or intermediate agency, intermediacy; instrumentality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > [noun]

workOE

operationa1393

workmanshipc1400

actionc1405

act?a1425

workinga1425

activityc1485

executiona1530

play1548

workfulness1570

inworking1587

acting1605

agency1606

operancea1625

transaction1663

operancyc1811

outworking1846

mediacy1854

functioning1856

1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 163/1 It becomes..rather a complicated question, whether they [sc. spirits] may not adopt the mediacy of electrical, or other forces, to communicate with us mortals.

1990 A. Burgess in Independent 16 Feb. 19/5 I feel it is possible, having made a new acquaintance of Lewis the man through Mr Wilson's admirable mediacy, for me to encounter once more Lewis the writer.

1993 A. L. Rowse in Times 5 Aug. 33/3 The flowering of classic Greek thought, through Arab mediacy, into our mathematics, medicine and the fuller knowledge of Aristotle.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mediacy
释义	mediacyn. Brit. /ˈmiːdɪəsi/, U.S. /ˈmidiəsi/ Forms: late Middle English mediacie, late Middle English 1800s– mediacy. Origin: Partly either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Partly (iii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French mediacie , mediatie ; Latin mediatus , -acy suffix; mediate adj. Etymology: In sense 1 either < Anglo-Norman mediacie or Middle French mediatie (both end of 14th cent. in sense ‘mediation’) or independently < post-classical Latin mediatus mediate adj. + -acy suffix; compare post-classical Latin mediatio mediation n. In other senses independently < mediate adj. (see -acy suffix), in sense 2 probably after immediacy n. †1. Intercession. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [noun] erndinga1000 mediationa1387 advocacyc1390 mediacya1425 meanc1450 moyen1454 interposition1462 mean1465 myance?a1513 advocation1532 intercession1534 advocateship?1555 intercessionment1593 interceding1600 intermise1612 means-making1617 intermission1647 interposal1687 spoke1867 a1425 (c1400) Primer (BL Add. 36683) in W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1882) III. 37 Graunte us..that thurȝ hir deseruyngis and hir mediacie we be worthi to come to..crist. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 7 (MED) Thrugh mediacy of mary chast, That helpes to safe vus of our syn. 2. Chiefly Philosophy. The fact or quality of being mediated by or derived from something else of the same kind or category; mediateness; (Logic) dependence on a middle term. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [noun] > obtained by inference > quality of mediateness1704 mediacy1853 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > cognition > quality of being mediate mediateness1704 mediacy1853 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [noun] > middle term > quality of being mediacy1853 1853 W. Hamilton Discuss. Philos. & Lit. (ed. 2) 663 Were there in these syllogisms no occult conversion of an undeclared consequent, no mediacy from the antecedent, they could not [etc.]. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic viii. 250 The mediacy being concealed by the concealment of the mental inference which really precedes. 1865 J. Grote Exploratio Philosophica Pt. I i. 119 How do presentation and representation thus viewed, stand related to the notions of mediacy and immediacy of knowledge? 1881 New Englander May 325 This exaggeration of the opposition between Nature and Art, genius and labor,..intuition and reflection, immediacy and mediacy, etc., is an important key to seventeenth century thought. 1940 Mind 49 174 The purest piece of knowledge by acquaintance is already infected with mediacy. 1975 Philos. Q. 25 249 Immediacy versus mediacy, as modes of representation, constitute a critical distinction between ways in which a representation is said to represent its object. 3. gen. Indirect or intermediate agency, intermediacy; instrumentality. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [noun] workOE operationa1393 workmanshipc1400 actionc1405 act?a1425 workinga1425 activityc1485 executiona1530 play1548 workfulness1570 inworking1587 acting1605 agency1606 operancea1625 transaction1663 operancyc1811 outworking1846 mediacy1854 functioning1856 1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 163/1 It becomes..rather a complicated question, whether they [sc. spirits] may not adopt the mediacy of electrical, or other forces, to communicate with us mortals. 1990 A. Burgess in Independent 16 Feb. 19/5 I feel it is possible, having made a new acquaintance of Lewis the man through Mr Wilson's admirable mediacy, for me to encounter once more Lewis the writer. 1993 A. L. Rowse in Times 5 Aug. 33/3 The flowering of classic Greek thought, through Arab mediacy, into our mathematics, medicine and the fuller knowledge of Aristotle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425
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