Word Meanings - MEDIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
pl. of Medium.
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- INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - MEDIATRESS; MEDIATRIX
A female mediator. - MEDIALUNA
See HALF-MOON - MEDIA
pl. of Medium. - MEDIAN
Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts. Median line. Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which - MEDIAEVALIST
One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages. - MEDIAEVALS
The people who lived in the Middle Ages. Ruskin. - INSTRUMENTALITY
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense - MEDIATIZATION
The act of mediatizing. - MEDIANT
The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds. - INSTRUMENTATION
1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical - INSTRUMENTALLY
1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason. - INSTRUMENT
A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, - MEDIATENESS
The state of being mediate. - MEDIATE
1. Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. Prior. 2. Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition. 3. Gained - MEDIATORY
Mediatorial. - MEDIATIZE
To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; -- specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince - INSTRUMENTALISM
The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these - MEDIAEVAL
Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediƦval architecture. - MEDIACY
The state or quality of being mediate. Sir W. Hamilton. - REMEDIABLE
Capable of being remedied or cured. -- Re*me"di*a*ble*ness, n. -Re*me"di*a*bly, adv. - SUPERMEDIAL
Above the middle. - IMMEDIACY
The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. Shak. - INTERMEDIATOR
A mediator. - IMMEDIATISM
Immediateness. - INTERMEDIAN
Intermediate. - INTERMEDIACY
Interposition; intervention. Derham. - IMMEDIATE
1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. Shak. 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." Shak. - SUBMEDIAL
Lying under the middle. - INFRAMEDIAN
Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. E. Forbes. - REMEDIAL
Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, - SUBMEDIANT
The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.