"mediately" meaning in English

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    "me‧di‧ate‧ly"
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLIII:",
          "text": "A second [question] is, whether these Eggs are immediately dropt into the Water by the Gnats themselves, or, mediately, are brought down by the falling rain […]",
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          "ref": "1861, Sir William Hamilton, The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, page 318:",
          "text": "The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented.",
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        "In a mediate manner, by the intervention of an intermediary agent or means; indirectly."
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      "ipa": "/ˈmiːdi.ətli/"
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    "me‧di‧ate‧ly"
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  "pos": "adv",
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