Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Mediatize

Me′di-a-tize

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Mediatized
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Mediatizing
.]
[Cf. F.
médiatiser
.]
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 his rank.
The misfortune of being a
mediatized
prince.
Beaconsfield.

Definition 2024


mediatize

mediatize

English

Alternative forms

Verb

mediatize (third-person singular simple present mediatizes, present participle mediatizing, simple past and past participle mediatized)

  1. To annex a country while allowing the ruler of the country to retain certain rights
  2. To mediate
  3. (obsolete) To be mediatized by the Roman Empire