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nner; 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. Blakstone.…

; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop. South.

In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.

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

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…

r relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness. Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker.

A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

A noun in apposition. -- Ap*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Appositive to the words going immediately before. Knatchbull.

The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

ack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils. The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion. Sir W. Scott.

A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

In rounders, the player who stands immediately behind the striking base.

The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. [Obs.]

A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.

A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.

The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.