Definition of "mediate" []

• To resolve or settle (differences) by working with all the conflicting parties: mediate a labor-management dispute. (verb-transitive)
• To bring about (a settlement, for example) by working with all the conflicting parties. (verb-transitive)
• To effect or convey as an intermediate agent or mechanism. (verb-transitive)
• To intervene between two or more disputants in order to bring about an agreement, a settlement, or a compromise. (verb-intransitive)
• To settle or reconcile differences. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Other theologians hold that the definitions of dogmatic facts, in the wider and stricter acceptation, are received, not by Divine faith, but by ecclesiastical faith, which some call mediate Divine faith."
• "All truth is either mediate, that is, derived from some other truth or truths; or immediate and original."
• "In a recent press conference, Dolan offered to "mediate" a solution (read: pressure the Park51 planners into moving their project) because the situation reminds him of -- you guessed it -- the Catholic church's decision to move a prayer center away from Auschwitz."