All 3 Uses
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John Adams, by McCullough
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- Maintaining a position of impartiality between Franklin and Arthur Lee, playing mediator, had become a dreadful strain.
Subsection 2.4.3mediator = someone who helps others to settle a disagreement
- But before either departed, Adams himself was off to Paris, summoned by Vergennes to take part in discussions of a possible mediation of the war by Russia and Austria.
Subsection 2.5.2 *mediation = the process of helping others to settle a disagreement
- "When the election between Burr and myself was kept in suspense by the Federalists," Jefferson would write to Benjamin Rush, "and they were mediating to place the President [pro tempore] of the Senate at the head of government, I called on Mr. Adams with a view to have this desperate measure prevented by his negative."
Subsection 3.10.6 *mediating = influencing
Definitions:
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(mediate as in: asked her to mediate the talks) help others to settle a disagreement
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(mediate as in: disease is mediated by) influenced
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, mediate can mean: being neither at the beginning nor end in a series -- as in "It is in a mediate position."