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mediate, ~im [ML] 1 (phil., w. ref. to causation) through intermediate agency. forma omnis creata vel materie necessario in actualitate sua innititur vel subjecto vere materiali, quandoque ~ius, quandoque immediatius Ps.-Gros. Summa 325; veritas ‥ sumit ortum ~e vel immediate ex jam dictis [principiis geometrie] Bacon Maj. I 127; sic non omnia movet immediate, set celum immediate, ~e autem illo omnia alia Bacon VII 27; diverse forme ‥ nate sunt ~ius et immediatius perficere illud Duns Ord. III 61. 2 (w. ref. to perception or knowledge) with intervention (of thought or sim.). Gros. 60 (v. immediate 2); sequitur, quod vox significans similitudinem, inquantum signum rei, significat ipsam rem, sed ~e, quia sc. immediate significat id, quod est signum ei, inquantum e[s]t signum (Duns) GLA III 214n. 126. 3 (w. ref. to divine influence) with someone else in between. hujuscemodi enim manifestationis divinas semper per signa aliqua vel per similitudines ~e fieri existimandum H. Bos. LM 1370A; est lex a Domino edita ~e seu approbata Fortescue Tit. Edw. 11. 4 (w. ref. to authority, jurisdiction, or sim.) through an intermediary. Gir. Symb. I 22; c1425 (v. immediate 4); quod ubicumque petitur dos versus minorem ~e vel immediate Bracton f. 300v; qui [sc. episcopus] modo est capud capituli immediate, ut asserit, cum alio tempore, prioris scilicet in domo existentis, sit ~e capud nostrum licet capud ecclesie fuerit Ann. Durh. 72; 1311 quod omnes ‥ fratres ‥ se magno preceptori Anglie ~e vel immediate subjecti sint [sic] (Dep. Templar.) Ann. Lond. 181; potestatem relevandi suas indigencias ~e vel immediate Ockham Pol. I 357. 5 (feud.) with a mesne lord. 1281 tam illi qui tenent de ipso medietate [l. mediate] PQW 428a; 1284 amerciamenta eorum qui tenent de predicto magistro ~e et immediate Ib. 92b. 6 (w. ref. to spatial relations) in the middle. omne cerebrum capitis ~im perforavit R. Cold. Cuthb. 112 p. 253. 7 (w. ref. to time) during an interval, in the mean time. s1237 nec personis etiam ecclesasticis ultra quinquennium ulterius ecclesie ad firmam concedantur, nec finito quinquennio renoventur eisdem, nisi prius ipsas habuerint alii ~e M. Par. Maj. III 425.

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