#mediate

[rocknrollflames]

Mediate

- INXS

[theyuniversity]

Mediate

(v.) to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties

If your two close friends aren’t speaking to each other, you might find yourself trying to mediate a peace accord between them. 🤝

The word mediate comes from the Latin mediatus, the past participle of mediare—“to be in the middle” or “to halve”—derived from medius, meaning “middle.”

Medius is a foundational Latin adjective with deep Indo-European roots, cognate with the Greek mesos (middle), and ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root medhyo-, meaning “middle.”

It entered English in the 15th century, initially as an adjective meaning “acting through an intermediate agency” (now somewhat archaic), and later as a verb meaning “to intervene between parties to reconcile them”—the dominant sense today.

The same root medius gives English a rich family of related words: medium, median, mediocre (literally “halfway up a stony mountain”), medieval (middle age), Mediterranean (middle of the earth/land), and mean (in the mathematical sense of a middle value).

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[loverusts]

INXS | Mediate

@brltpop you are so right about Mediate

[alfairb]

Hallucinate, desegregate Mediate, alleviate Try not to hate, love your mate Don't suffocate on your own hate Designate your love as fate

[rastronomicals]

5:11 PM EDT May 1, 2025:

INXS - "Mediate" From the album Kick (October 19, 1987)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Get sick get well hang around an inkwell and liberate liberate liberate liberate.

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[darlinhutchence]

michael hutchence at the miami arena on march 1, 1988.

📸: paul natkin

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The word meditate as used in the Old Testament literally means to murmur or to mutter and, by implication, to talk to oneself. When we meditate on the Scriptures we talk to ourselves about them, turning over in our minds the meanings, the implications, and the applications to our own lives.

Jerry Bridges