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The act of coming between; intervention; interposition. Burke.

A mediator.

Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable; as, an irremediable disease or evil.

The state or quality of being irremediable.

In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or correction.

To advocate. [R.]

Capable of being remedied or cured. -- Re*me"di*a*ble*ness, n. -Re*me"di*a*bly, adv.

ording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative. I. Taylor.

In a remedial manner.

Remedial. [R.] Shak.

Lying under the middle.

Next to the median (on either side); as, the submedian teeth of mollusks.

The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.

Above the middle.

s tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). "Have you much money about you" Bulwer.

Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative. Absolute curvature (Geom.), that curvature of a curve of double curvature, which is measured in the osculating plane of the curve. -- Absolute equation (Astron.), the sum of the opt…

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.