单词 | mediating |
释义 | mediatingadj. 1. a. That acts, serves, or functions as an intermediary. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [adjective] > interceding intercessory1576 mediatory1578 interceding1600 deprecativea1617 mediating1662 intercessionary1861 society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [adjective] > relating to or acting as mediator mediating1662 mediatorian1692 moderating1714 intermediatory1851 mediatory1885 mediational1908 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 119 Second, partaking causes, also free mediating con-causes, and occasionall ones accompanying them: over all which..God is..the totall, immediate, and independent cause. 1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. xvii. 68 A Cause Efficient is said to be next in Species which is so joyned by its Existence to its Effect, as that it is joyned to it without any mediating Virtue. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. iii. 20 Regard to my Family hath made me take upon myself to be the mediating Power. View more context for this quotation 1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1351 A mediating party between the zealous friends of the practice and the public. 1866 H. P. Liddon Bampton Lect. (1875) vi. 306 St. Paul dwells often and earnestly upon our Lord's mediating Humanity. 1985 W. McIlvanney Big Man i. 27 It was the remark that rendered any mediating sanity powerless to intervene. 1993 Observer 3 Jan. 10/3 The soaps often play a mediating and substitutive role. b. Psychology. Interposing between an idea, intention, etc., and its result, or between a stimulus and its response. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > [adjective] > involving mediation mediated1860 mediational1908 mediating1953 mediatized1970 1953 C. E. Osgood Method & Theory Exper. Psychol. iii. ix. 401 Certain stimulus patterns..are variably associated with systems of mediating reactions. 1963 W. 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. 1971 N. S. Sutherland & N. J. Mackintosh Mechanisms Animal Discrim. Learning ix. ii. 309 The nature of the ‘mediating processes’ possibly available to children but not to animals. 1995 G. V. Thomas in C. Hollin Contemp. Psychol. vii. 132 When the woman was on her own after conditioning then the associated fear response was reactivated directly, without any mediating representation of the miscarriage. 2. Of an opinion, its advocates, etc.: tending to mediate between extremes; moderating. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > compromise > [adjective] composing1644 mediatinga1729 compounding1757 compromisinga1850 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [adjective] > occupying middle position neutral1494 commoderate1590 neutera1591 mediatinga1729 unmarked1791 goldena1817 a1729 J. 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. 1885 Athenæum 4 July 10/3 Dr. Salmon, being no mediating scholar, accepts the last twelve verses of St. Mark's Gospel. 1937 A. H. Murray Philos. of James Ward vii. 154 Only by such middle principles or mediating principles..can [philosophy] hope to arrive at a view of the world in which all the knowledges of the various sciences will form a unified whole. 1982 H. Carruth Final Version in Mythol. Dark & Light 96 Our mediating belief, the two absolutes are unassailable. All and nothing. Derivatives ˈmediatingly adv. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [adverb] > as a mediator mediatingly1841 1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 49 466 To go mediatingly..between others. 1960 Jrnl. Philos. 57 551 Analytic philosophy attacks our two original questions obliquely and mediatingly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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