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单词 mediately
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mediatelyadv.

Brit. /ˈmiːdɪətli/, U.S. /ˈmidiətli/
Forms: late Middle English mediateli, late Middle English mediatli, late Middle English–1600s mediatly, 1500s– mediately; Scottish pre-1700 mediatelie, pre-1700 mediatlie, pre-1700 mediatly, pre-1700 1700s mediately.
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: mediate adj., -ly suffix2; Latin mediatus , -ly suffix2.
Etymology: Either < mediate adj. + -ly suffix2 (although the adjective is only attested slightly later) or independently < its etymon post-classical Latin mediatus + -ly suffix2, after post-classical Latin mediate, adverb. Compare the antonym immediately adv. and discussion at that entry. Compare Middle French, French médiatement (1546).
1. By the intervention of an intermediary agent, means, etc.; by indirect mediation; indirectly. Opposed to immediately adv. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [adverb] > directly or intermediately
mediately?a1425
immediately1488
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adverb] > by intermediate agency
mediately?a1425
indirectly1477
intermediously1657
intermediately1755
medially1846
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 110 (MED) For mediateli þer may be cause of errour of þe digestif & sanguifice, i. blodemakyng, in þe lyuer.
c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 86 His [sc. God's] gouernyng of..summe immediateli and oþire summe mediateli, þat is to seie, bi meene of oþire creaturis.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOviii Wheder it be immediatly of the holygoost, or els mediatly, as by the mynistracion of some good angell.
1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Ciiii She [sc. a woman] is not immediatly vnder God, but mediatlye.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vi. iv. 439 For if they signifie things mediately they are no more letters nor writings, but ciphers and pictures.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Worc. 174 I confess, he might be mediatly of Welch-extraction, but born in this County.
1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Matt. v. 8 They shall see him Spiritually and Mediately in this Life, Gloriously and Immediately in the Life to come.
1782 Ld. Macartney Let. 1 Oct. in Private Corr. (1950) 64 All the black People know full well that I accept no bribes or presents or Perquisites mediately or immediately.
1823 J. Marshall Writings upon Federal Constit. (1839) 276 Persons who claimed immediately from the crown, or mediately, through its grantees or deputies.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) II. App. 521 Something different from the realities externally existing, through which, however, they are mediately represented.
a1894 W. Pater Gaston de Latour (1896) ii. 50 He derived his impressions of things not directly from them, but mediately from other people's impressions about them.
1963 L. Trilling in N. Frye Romanticism Reconsidered 79 The growing tendency of power to express itself mediately..rather than directly.
1997 Adv. in Nursing Sci. (Electronic ed.) 1 Mar. 14 Symptoms may affect performance, which, in turn, affects symptoms directly and mediately through the influencing factors.
2. With a person or thing intervening in time, space, order, or succession. Opposed to immediately adv. 2. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [adverb]
betweenc890
betwixta1300
mediately1620
intermediately1736
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > middle > [adverb]
midst1667
middlemost1696
intermediately1736
mediately1794
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum ii. iii. 223* Here the particle (not) is mediately prefixed before (perisheth).
a1713 A. Pitcairne Assembly (1722) iv. ii. 70 Plantations following Depositions, either mediately before, or immediately behind.
1794 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 139 Running waters, when turbid, will deposit, first, the coarsest and heaviest particles, mediately, those of the several intermediate degrees of fineness, and ultimately..the most light.
1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. IV. 471 An estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs, in fee or in tail.
1890 Sat. Rev. 13 Sept. 326/2 A day spent..mediately in pursuit of sport, it may be immediately in mountain-climbing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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