mediation 
By mediacitm of this IIU-1 tretis I purpose to teche the 
II I'rrtrill MtlllllllV of rlllH'lllMi.MS 
Chaucer, I'rol. to Astrolabe. 
5. In <M*/C: (n < In (Jregoriiiii music, that part 
of a melody which lies between the intonation 
mid the ending that is, the main part of the 
melody. The various "tones" or melodies properly 
have hut our m.'li ition, which usually appears nriiltT 
thrrr forms, according to the nature of the text to which 
the melody is sung, (fc) In an Anglican chant, the 
rhythmical conclusion of the first half that 
is, the two measures after the first reciting- 
iinie, CMC ling frequently in a half-close; the first 
cadence. = Syn. 1 and 2. Interference, Intervention, etc. 
><< interposition. 
mediative (mo'di-a-tiv), . f< mediate + -fee.] 
1 1 nving a mediating function; acting as a 
mean, medium, or mediator; mediatorial. 
This commerce of sincerest virtue needs 
Nil i,l>"liirtii-,' Mmis ul' sr[lishnr>s. 
Shelley, Queen Mat, v. 
mediatization (me'di-a-ti-za'shon). H. [< mt- 
ilinti-i- + -atimi.} The act of mediatizing, or 
the state of being mediatized. See mediatize. 
mediatize (me'di-a-tiz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. me- 
diatizt-d, l>pr. mt'iliiiti:iiij/. [< mediate 4- -ize.} 
1 . To make mediate ; reduce from an immedi- 
ate or direct to a mediate or indirect relation 
through the interposition of a secondary su- 
perior or controlling agency. Applied specifically 
to the process of converting one of the minor Uerman 
states or princely families of the old empire from the semi- 
imli pendent condition of having a direct share In the Im- 
perial government, and responsibility to it, to that of sub- 
ordination to an intervening power, by being annexed to 
it while retaining all local possessory and governmental 
rights. By this process, especially under the Westphalian 
treaties of 1648, and the changes leading to the dissolution 
of the old empire and the formation of the Confederation 
of the Rhine In 180ft, the number of mediatized states and 
princely families became very large. 
The same peace [that of Luneville] declared that all 
the secular princes who had lost territory by this cession 
were to be indemnified by the Empire. This was done at 
ilfying mi 
Regenslmrgin 181)3. The indemnifying material was ob- 
tained by mediatizing all the free cities but six, and all 
the spiritual estates but two. Lowe, Bismarck, Int., p. vi. 
"Your Highness," I said (it is a title appertaining to 
him as sprung from a mediatized family). 
Harper's May., LXXVIII. 8fi6. 
2. To mediate. [Bare.] 
A creed of reconciliation which attempts to mediatiu 
between two opposite parties. Unitarian Rev., Aug., 1885. 
mediator (me'di-a-tor), w. [= F. mediateur = 
Pr. mediator = Sp. Pg. mediador = It. mediators, 
< LL. mediator, < mediare, mediate: see medi- 
ate.] 1. One who mediates ; one who interposes 
between parties; especially, one who interposes 
for the purpose of effecting reconciliation. 
In this Distraction of Christendom, many Princes, the 
Kings of Spain, Denmark, and Hungary, became Media- 
tors for a Peace between the two Kings of England and 
France. Baker, Chronicles, p. 187. 
Charles came back, not as a mediator between his peo- 
ple and a victorious enemy, but as a mediator between in- 
ternal factions. Macaulay, Sir 1. Mackintosh. 
2. A go-between ; an agent. 
By which mediataun or which messagers. 
Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
The Mediator, n title of Jesus Christ, given with refer- 
ence to his agency in reconciling God and men. 
For there is one Ood. and one mediator between God 
and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. II. 5. 
= Syii. Intercessor, interceder, propitiator, 
mediatorial (rae'di-a-to'ri-al), a. [< mediatory 
+ -al.} Of or pertaining to a mediator ; having 
or pertaining to the functions of a mediator. 
His mediatorial character and office was meant to be 
represented as a perpetual character and office. 
Paley, Sermons, xxil. 
mediatorially (me'di-a-to'ri-al-i), ndr. In the 
manner of a mediator ; as a mediator. 
mediatorship (me'di-fi-tor-ship), n. [< media- 
tor + -,vAi/i.] The office, position, or function 
of a mediator. 
The infinitely perfect mediatorship and intercession of 
Christ. South. Works, VI. i. 
mediatory (me'di-a-to-ri), a. [< LL. /////<;- 
/)/),<, intermediate (cf. mediator, mediator), 
< mediare, mediate: see mediate.'] Pertaining 
in mt'iii;ition; mediatorial. 
The mediatory office which he was to he intrusted with. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, ii. 
mediatress (me'di-a-tres), . [< mediator + 
-... Cf. mediatrix.} Same as mediatris. 
Why ilidat thoii not, O p-ntlf mother-queen '. 
As judge and mediatrefut stand tu-twrrn 
Lewi*, tr. of statins, vii. 
mediatrix (me-di-a'triksi. . [< LL. mi-diii- 
tri.r, fern, of mediator, a mediator: see mnUn- 
(OT.J A female mediator. 
8083 
The good countess spoke somewhat of your desire of 
letters ; but I am afraid: she Is not a proper mediatrix to 
those persons ; but I counsel In the dark. 
Donne, Letters, xxvl. 
medibasilic (me'di-ba-sil'ik), a. [< iiiedi(an) 
+ basilic.} Connecting the median and the 
I ia>i lie vein of the arm : specifically said of the 
median basilic vein. Coues, 1887. 
medic 1 (med'ik), a. and . [= OF. medique = 
Sp. medico = Pg. It. medico, < L. medicus, of or 
belonging to healing, curative, medical; as a 
noun, medicus, rn., a physician, doctor, surgeon, 
LL. medico, f., a female physician, midwife ; < 
mederi, heal, = Zend madh, treat medically. 
Hence medical, iindii-nit, remedy.'} I. n. Same 
as medical. [Bare.] 
Should untun'd Nature crave the medick art, 
What health can that contentious nil..- Impart? 
Pom/ret, Poems. 
II. . A physician or doctor; a medical stu- 
dent. [Colloq.] 
Medic it the legitimate paronym of medicwi, hut IB com- 
monly regarded as slang. 
B. a. Wilder, Jour. Nervous Diseases (1885), xli. 
Medic 2 (me'dik), a. [< L. Medicus, < Gr. M//<5<- 
Kof, pertaining to the Medes, < Miydoi, Medes : 
see Mede 9 .} Same as Median*. 
The Medic language Is not the same as the Akkadian. 
Jour. Anthrop. /n*., XIX. SI. 
medic :t , medick 2 (me'dik), i. [< ME. medike, < 
OF. medique, < L. medico, < Or. /a/dud/, sc. iroa, 
' Meilian grass,' a kind of clover, fern, of MqAiKof, 
of the Medes or of Media : see Medic 2 .} A kind 
of clover, Medicayo sativa ; Burgundy clover; 
lucerne. The black medic, or nonesuch. Is M hipulina. 
Its pods are black when ripe. The spotted medic Is V. 
maculata, whose leaflets bear a purple spot. Purple me- 
dic is a name sometimes used for lucerne. 
At Auerel Medike is forto sowe. 
PaUadiut, Husbondrie (E. K. T. s.), p. 140. 
medicable (med'i-ka-bl), a. [= OF. medicable, 
medecable = Sp. meclicable = It. medicabile, < L. 
niidiriiiii/ix. that can be healed, < medieari, 
heal, cure: see medicate.'} Capable of medica- 
tion ; that may be cured or healed. 
Pongs of victory and praise, 
For them who bravely stood unhurt, or bled 
With medicable wounds. Wardtimrth, Ode, 1815. 
Medicago (med-i-ka'go) ; . [NL. (Tournefort, 
1700), C L. medico, medic, + term, -ago, as in 
tussilago, etc.] A genus of plants of the natu- 
ral order Leguminoste and the tribe Trifoliece; 
the clovers. It is characterized by an obtuse keel 
and a scythe-shaped legume which Is more or less spi- 
rally curved or twisted. There are about 40 species, na- 
tives of Europe, Asia, and Africa, but now naturalized 
in other parts of the world. They are herbs, or rarely 
shrubs, with pinnately trifoliate leaves and adnate stip- 
ules, and usually small papilionaceous flowers, which 
are yellow, rarely purple, and grow In axillary racemes 
or heads, or sometimes almost solitary. The common 
name of plants of the genus is medic, sometimes mail-clo- 
ver. M. saliva, with purple flowers, is an important fodder- 
plant, cultivated under the names of alfalfa and lucerne 
(which see). M. lupuiina, the black medic or nonesuch, 
closely resembles the hop-clovers, and also shares their 
name, but is distinguished^ by its black pods. It is of some 
agricultural value when growing with other herbage. M. 
maculata, the spotted medic (heart-clover), has a peculiar, 
spirally coiled prickly pod. These species are all natural- 
ized in the I niti'd States. M. arimrea is a shrubby spe- 
cies (tree-medic, moon'trefoil) of southern Europe, said 
to promote the secretion of milk. M. tcuteUata of the 
Mediterranean region is also a good forage plant, resist- 
ing drought well. M. falcata is the yellow or sickle- 
podded medic. 
medical (med'i-kal), a. and . [< F. medical = 
Sp. Pg. medical, OIL. medicalis, pertaining to a 
physician or to medicine, < L. medicus, of neal- 
ing; as a noun, a physician: see medic 1 .} I. a. 
1. Pertaining or relating to the profession or 
practice of medicine ; engaged in or connected 
with the study or treatment of disease : as, the 
niiilical profession; a medical man, book, or 
college; medical services ; medical science. 2. 
Curative ; medicinal ; therapeutic : as, the medi- 
cal properties of a plant ; the medical effects of 
bathing. 
Abbreviated med. 
Medical department, geography, etc. See the nouns. - 
Medical director, a medk-al officer of the highest grade 
in the I'nited States navy, having the relative rank of cap- 
tain. - Medical flngert. |l.. ilimtnx medicus or medici- 
iialt'jt. ] The third finger : so called because that finger was 
supposed to have a nerre connecting It with the heart, 
and therefore to be medically important 
At last he, with a low courtesy, put on her medical fn- 
ger a pretty handsome golden ring. 
Unjuhart, tr. "f Itah.'hiis, ill. 17. (Danes.) 
Medical Inspector, a medical offircr of the second grade 
in the Tnited States navy, having tin- relative rank of com- 
niandrr. Medical Jurisprudence, forensic medicine. 
See forensic. 
Medical jurinprtidencr or, as It is sometimes called, 
Forensic. Legal, or State Medicine may be denned to be 
Medicean 
that science which teaches the applh utimi nf < vrry branch 
of medical knowledge to the purposes of the law. 
A. S. Taylor, Med. Jurinprudence, p. 1. 
Medical iy a medical practitioner: a physician r 
surgeon ; sometimes, in England, one who has the modi- 
ml r h:ux'- "f a patient or a family, who may be a licensed 
apothecary, as distinguished from a physician or doctor. 
Messengers went off for her physician and medical man 
They came, consulted, prescribed, vanished. 
Thacteray, Vanity Fair, sir. 
II. H. 1. A student or a practitioner of medi- 
cine. [Colloq.] 
'I In- 1 1 n ii Inn mediealt were quite as popular as the Edin- 
burgh students. Lancet, No. 3487, p. 98. 
2. A Kinall bottle or vial made from glass tubing. 
Tile vial-maker cuts the ttiln-s into lengths suitable to 
make two rials, and on each end of the piece, with the aid 
of a blowpipe, forms a neck. He then heats the middle 
of the tube, parts it centrally, and closes the openings at 
the separated ends, shaping them properly for the bottoms. 
medically (med'i-kal-i), arfc. In a medical 
manner; for medical purposes ; with reference 
to medicine or medical science. 
medicament (med'i-ka-meut), . f= F. // 
dicaHie>it = &p. Pg. It. mi/lii-unifiito, < L. mrdirn- 
mentum, a remedy, medicine, drug, < medieari, 
heal: see medicate,] 1. A healing substance ; 
anything used as a curative; a medicine or 
remedy; now, more especially, a healing sub- 
stance applied externally. 
Not with any medicament of a contrary temper, as the 
Ualenistes vse to cure contraria contrariju. but as the 
i'aracelsians, who cure rimilia rimilibug, making one do- 
lour to expell another. 
PuUenham, Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 39. 
I sent more chlrurgeons, linen, medicament!, Ac., to the 
severall ports in my district. Evelyn, Diary, June 7, 1866. 
The lump of sugar which pothicars put into their whole- 
some but bitter medicament* to please a froward child. 
Scott, Abbot, xxil. 
2. Medicinal effect; curative power; the prop- 
erty of healing or remedying disease or disor- 
der. 
The stricken soldier was gathering strength and vital- 
ity by the unconscious medicament of the soft sunshine 
and balmy breezes. Tourgte, A Fool's Errand, p. 98. 
medicamental (med*i-ka-men'tal), a. [< med- 
icament + -al.~\ Belating or' pertaining to 
medicaments; having the character of a medi- 
cament. 
medicamentally (med^i-ka-men'tal-i), ndr. In 
a medicinal way ; as a medicament. 
The flsh [codling! Is not a young cod, . . . being more 
wholesome medicamentally, but not so toothsome. 
y. and Q., 6th ser, IX. 210. 
medicamentous (med*i-ka-men'tus), a. [< 
medicament + -otut.} Pertaining to or produced 
by drugs. Med. Netcs. Lin. 414. 
medicaster (med'i-kas-ter), w. [= It. medica*- 
tro, < L. medicus, a physician, + dim. -aster.} A 
pretender to medical knowledge or skill; an 
ignorant doctor. 
Many medicasters, pretenders to physlck, buy the degree 
of doctor abroad. 
Whitloclt, Manners of the English (1M), p. 107. (Latham. ) 
medicate (med'i-kat), r. t, ; pret. and pp. medi- 
cated, ppr. medicating. [< L. medicatus, pp. of 
medieari (> It. medicare = Sp. Pg. medicar= OF. 
medier), heal, cure, < medicim, a physician, sur- 
geon: see medic 1 .] 1. To make medicinal; 
tincture or imbue with a remedial substance 
or principle. 
To this may he ascribed the great effects of mrdicatrd 
waters. Arbuthnot. Aliments. 
2. To treat with medicine ; ply with or as if 
with drugs. 
Did ever Siren warble so dulcet a song to ears already 
prepossessed and medicated with spells of circean effem- 
inacy? De Qvincey, Philos. of Rom. Hist. 
Medicated ale, bath, etc. See the nouns, 
medication (med-i-ka'shon), n. [= F. medica- 
tion = Pr. medicacio = Pg. mediea^3a = It. me- 
diraziintc, < L. as if *medicatio(n-), < medieari, 
heal, cure: see medicate.} 1. The act or pro- 
cess of medicating or imbuing with medicinal 
substances; the infusion of medicinal virtues. 
2. The use or application of medicine; spe- 
cifically, the administration of a therapeutic 
agent in order to produce some specific modi- 
fication in the structure or function of the or- 
ganism, as in producing diuresis, perspiration, 
etc. 
He adriseth to observe the times of notable mutations, 
as the equinoxes and the solstices, and to decline mfdi- 
cation ten days before and after. 
Sir T. Browne, Vnlg. Err., iv. 13. 
medicative (med'i-ka-tiv), a. [< medicate 
+ -ire.} Having medical properties; curing; 
tending to cure. 
Medicean (med-i-se'an), a. [< It. Medici (see 
def . ), a surname (orig. pi. of medico, a physician : 
