What is the meaning of mediate?

verb

• Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.
  • usage: "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement"
  • synonyms: intercede, intermediate, liaise, arbitrate
• Occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others.
  • usage: "mediate between the old and the new"

adjective

• Acting through or dependent on an intervening agency.
  • usage: "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
• Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series.
  • usage: "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line"
  • synonyms: in-between, middle