mediumize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To act as a medium

   To act as a medium; to channel or speak for a spirit or noncorporal being.

   • During the forty years that Moses mediumized for the god of the Hebrews, there was no need of diviners or their arts.
   • When we say that to make myths is to hypersuggest we are not also saying that to mediumize is to hypersuggest . That would be an aberration because the best work of the medium is not done when the individual is in a hypersuggestive state .
2. 2

   To make into a spiritual medium

   To make into a spiritual medium; to imbue with spiritual energy.

   • Their exercise promotes and advances the individual to the superior state; to attain which, many minds are obliged first to be magnetized or mediumized.
   • He says that spirits do the healing and that he is mediumized throughout his healings.
3. 3

   To make into or act as a medium of exchange.

   • None of the Alliance Exchanges issue anything intended as a circulating medium. The Bank alone mediumizes securites.
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   1. 4

      To transition into using a medium of exchange.

      • There was a considerable increase in the number of small and medium peasant's holdings, a mediumizing process taking place in the whole Yugoslav economy at the time as a result;
   2. 5

      To act as an intermediary

      To act as an intermediary; to translate from one context to another.

      • Whatever has happened outside this brain, without its instigation, is automatically transformed by the process of assimilating, or mediumizing, it.
      • In terms of "mediumizing" between art and life, to use Mary Josephson's idea, it is one of the most consummate of Rauschenberg's achievements, all of which are defined by temporal signatures.
   3. 6

      To finish by applying a medium.

      • There is no better method, beside retouching upon mediumized films than using a hard shellac varnish, and rubbing over the solution of resin in turpentine, mentioned in the chapter on Materials.
      • Unsatisfactory attempts at retouching may be removed with the finger rag slightly mostened with spirits of turpentine (the best), and then the negative is re-mediumized with the regular retouching medium for another trial.
   4. 7

      To make less extreme

      To make less extreme; to make medium in size or intensity.

      • We've got one or two highly mediumizing institutions – the public schools, 'cricket' in its various forms – but as a people we're chockfull of extremism.
      • We have no intention to minimize, or even mediumize, the difficulties and disappointments that lie ahead in the task of creating computer programs capable of understanding natural language.
      • In that case we would be better off maximizing, or perhaps "mediumizing", the numbers of postulated changes.

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