Meanings (ES + gloss)
mediar
To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
Negotiators managed to mediate a ceasefire.
mediar • terciar
To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
"Nay," replied Charles, gravely, "this is carrying your anger too far. Allow me to mediate between you. I must entreat, nay, I command, the Lady Francesca's presence."
vehicular
To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.
He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off h…
[A]s much as language in our modern technological world is mediated through the written word, quantitatively spoken language still reigns supreme.
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