Meanings
- not comparableIn a mediate manner, by the intervention of an intermediary agent or means; indirectly.First known use 15th c.
A second [question] is, whether these Eggs are immediately dropt into the Water by the Gnats themselves, or, mediately, are brought down by the falling rain […]
1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLIII1 more example
The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented.
1861, Sir William Hamilton, The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, page 318Synonyms: indirectly · Antonyms: directly, immediately
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn a mediate manner, by the intervention of an intermediary agent or means; indirectly.
Origin
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