Mediary

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Meaning

An intermediary or go-between; Something or someone that passes information, instructions, or influence between one person or thing and another person or thing..

Definitions by Sense

1. An intermediary or go-between; Something or someone that passes information, instructions, or influence between one person or thing and another person or thing.
2. Intermediate.
3. Acting to cause or connect.
4. (computing, dated) Storing data that is written by one process so that it can be read by another process.
5. (medicine) occurring during the course of a disease.
6. (heraldry, of color) Having a primary hue (red, blue, or gold), as opposed to one that can be created by mixing colors with primary hues.
7. (semiotics) Defining or inferring a generalization or category of meaning.

Example Sentences

The reason why fear and obedience figure prominently in Hobbes's notion of covenant is that the model for it is biblical; more precisely, it is based on his reading of the covenant between God, his mediary Moses, and the Israelites in Exodus.

In this last work, Freud introduced his tripartite division of the psyche into three agencies: the id, the repository of instinctual impulse; the ego, the executive mediary between the drives of the id and the external world; and the superego, an independent sector of the ego given shape by the social proscriptions and ideals the child internalizes during its development.

Because these uprisings were work-related and directed at employers, the state acted as mediary.

Sixth, when no mediary is present, each interaction participant can be said to form part of the other's environment.

I have made several three vision glasses for my patients requiring distant, near and mediary vision with signal success.

The mediary role played by CNMs between the two systems is exemplified in that historically the “supervision and training of granny midwives [w]as the major responsibility for which the first American-trained nurse-midwives were prepared”

Husserl pointed out that it is the mediary state between both kinds of interests, the indeterminateness and vagueness of a still only fugitive theme, which is germinal for processes of inquiry initiated by "an effort to come closer and closer to the object."

In this last instance, simple relativity may be called mediary relativity, (a R b) where a is some medium, such as air, between the knower and the known, and b is the resultant knowledge.

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