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To cause to be mechanical. Shelley.

Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.

In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; -- opposed to immediately. God worketh all things amongst us mediately. Sir W. Raleigh. The king grants a manor to A, and A grants a portion of it to B. In this case. B holds his lands immediately of A, but mediately of the king. B…

To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; -- specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank. The misfortune of being a mediatized prince. Beaconsfield.…

is said to be manifested and transmitted. Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried. Bacon. I must bring together All these extremes; and must remove all mediums. Denham.

sci nor pycnidia, but as a rule having the spores in cavities without special walls. They cause many of the plant diseases known as anthracnose.

To remember; to cause to remember; to mention. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, causes to be remembered. [Obs.]

To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record. [Obs.] They neglect to memorize their conquest. Spenser. They meant to . . . memorize another Golgotha. Shak.

To treat (cotton fiber or fabrics) with a solution of caustic alkali. Such treatment causes the fiber to shrink in length and become stronger and more receptive of dyes. If the yarn or cloth is kept under tension during the process, it assumes a silky luster. -- Mer`cer*i*za"tion (#), n.

Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth.

To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb. To merge all natural ... sentiment in inordinate vanity. Burke. Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots. De Quincey.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.

] In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser.

orse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course. Pope. To put one one's mettle, to cause or incite one to use one's best efforts.

To cause to be like the Mexicans, or their country, esp. in respect of frequent revolutions of government.

Containing, or relating to, miasma; caused by miasma; as, miasmatic diseases.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.

Of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci. Nature.

ife; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.