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In a medicinal manner.

Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic. By medicine, life may be prolonged. Shak.

Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.

A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure. B. G. Wildex.

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

Science of medicine. [Obs.]

The middle part; half; moiety. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Same as Medi, Medi, etc.

A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology.

Same as Para.

Mediocre. [R.]

e quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary. " A very mediocre poet." Pope.

A mediocre person. [R.]

The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate. "A mediocrity of success." Bacon.

Pertaining to that part of the columella of the ear which, in some animals, connects the stapes with the other parts of the columella. -- n.

Intermediate. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Meditation. [Obs.]

ht; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect. Jer. Taylor. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Ps. i. 2.

The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight. Ps. xix. 14.

One who is given to meditation.