mediary

noun

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.

   “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.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Intermediate.

   “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."”

2. (not-comparable)Acting to cause or connect.

   “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.”

   “Because language intervenes between us and reality, so to speak, categorizing reality for us, Weisgerber believes that the speakers of different languages live in different 'linguistic mediary worlds' (sprachliche Zwischenwelten).”

   “To some such an approach might seem a bit myopic in eschewing mediary constructs such as thoughts, feelings, and motivation that are assumed to be important aspects of psychological functioning, but one cogent argument is that such singularity of the model was necessary for the development of the field.”

3. (dated, not-comparable)Storing data that is written by one process so that it can be read by another process.

   “This tape becomes the system mediary input tape and is in turn processed by the system.”

   “Many applications, however, require the use of mediary, or scratch files.”

   “This converted data is written on the mediary output tape immediately behind the absolute program which is going to read it. In this manner, separate jobs are processed one after another and written onto the mediary output tape for later execution.”

4. (not-comparable)occurring during the course of a disease.

   “Mediary disinfection, that occurring during the course of the disease, is of great value.”

   “With this disease and probably with every other disease mediary disinfection is very much more important than terminal disinfection.”

   “Concurrent or mediary disinfection is the immediate disinfection of the bodily discharges of the patient or other substances and articles which may have been contaminated by his use of them.”

5. (not-comparable)Having a primary hue (red, blue, or gold), as opposed to one that can be created by mixing colors with primary hues.

   “Charles king of France by an angel a shield of blue with three fleur-de-lis of gold together with other armour: and on both these occasions the foundation and field of the arms was azure, and this was superior to the gold. Therefore it is clear that this colour is the chief of all mediary and submediary colours.”

   “The colours primary in themselves are the colours white and black; the colours truly mediary are blue, gold, and red; the sub-mediary colours are green and any Similar if there are any.”

6. (not-comparable)Defining or inferring a generalization or category of meaning.

   “All is continuous, as Thirdness, generality, a temporal and mediary collusion of the values of the possible (as Firstness) and the singular (as Secondness).”

   “Thirdness can be tentatively qualified as that which brings about mediation between two other entities in such a manner that they are related to each other in the same way they are related to the third entity as a result of its mediary act.”

   “Due to the mediary role of thirdness, each of the categories can intermittently play the role of any of the other categories. Yet at a given space-time juncture, one of the three will be a first, one a second, and one a third.”