mediately

mediate +‎ -ly

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdi.ətli/
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧ate‧ly

mediately (not comparable)

1. In a mediate manner, by the intervention of an intermediary agent or means; indirectly. [from 15th c.]
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, XLIII:

     A second [question] is, whether these Eggs are immediately dropt into the Water by the Gnats themselves, or, mediately, are brought down by the falling rain […].

   Synonym: indirectly

• immediately
• directly

• “mediately” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

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