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sary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention. The soul [acts] by the mediation of these passions. South.

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

; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve. He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham. My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. Hammond.

Mediation. [Obs.]

The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or (less often) against, another or others. But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which can not be uttered. Rom. viii. 26.

ct of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.

t the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation. Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power. Sir W. Temple.

To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.

Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts. Beaconsfield.

Of or pertaining to a mediator, or to mediation; mediatory; as, a mediatorial office. -- Me`di*a*to"ri*al*ly, adv. My measures were . . . healing and mediatorial. Burke.

A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. "Rapt in nameless reveries." Tennyson. When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. Locke.…