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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1490-1500, 1572-1596
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Mediatio(u)n, n. Also: -cioun(e, medeacione. [ME. (Chaucer) and OF. mediacion, e.m.E. -tion, late L. mediātio.] a. The act of mediation or intercession. b. Agency as an intermediary, instrumentality, intermediacy.a. 1490 Irland Mir. I. 121/35.
The tyme quhen his gracius promys suld be fulfillit … that callit js the tyme of grace and mediacioune 1490 Ib. 143/1.
And sene be the mediacioune of this glorius lady and virgin was maid pes … betuix God and man 1499–1500 Acts Lords of Council II. 399.
Til gif thare consale be medeacione in the sadis materis 1572 Reg. Privy C. II. 134.
The … occasioun of the contraversiis mycht be … takin away be freindlie mediatioun and laubouris 1596 R. Bruce in Wodrow's Life 49.
The godly barons … have taken upon them the patrociny and mediation of the Kirk and her causeb. 1490 Irland Mir. II. 70/12.
The sone wyrkis nocht his operacioun bot be the mediacioun of the causis particular and inferior
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