A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mediatly, -lie, adv. Also: mediately, -lie. [e.m.E. mediate- (1550), mediatly (1526).]
1. Of lands held, rights enjoyed, etc.: Not directly of a superior but through a vassal.1532–3 Dunferm. Reg. Ct. 86.
He held nocht the samyn of my l. bot mediat[l]y 1544–5 Acts & Decr. II. 28.
[He] occupyit the samyn [lands] to his awin vtilite & proffitt mediatlie or immediatlie 1565 (1583) Reg. Great S. 171/2.
[They] obtenit be the said John heretablie and immediatlie fra thame that heretabill jure and titill thairto mediatlie haldin of ws 1585 Acts III. 383/2.
All … charteris … maid … vpoun the said foirfaltouris … in fauour of … personis mediatlie and immediatly 1597 Skene Mem. 233.
Simulatlie grantit in safar as it was mediatlie grantit to the said Patrik 1670 Aberd. Council Lett. V. 10.
All those fra whom the rytt flowed to them ether mediatlie or immediatelie
2. Of descent or relationship: Not lineally, collaterally.1558 Acts II. 505/1.
Gife of hir or hiris mediatlie or immediatelie cumis bot female [sc. heir]
3. Through an intermediary; indirectly.a1599 Rollock Wks. I. 446.
Sa immediatelie this spreit cummis fra Jesus Christ … bot mediatelie fra God as the fountane 1659 Review of ‘Protesters No Subverters’ iii.
Ordinary ministers as they have their call mediatly by the Church, without whose authoritative mission no inward call can warrant them [etc.] 1697 Sermon on Witchcraft in Sc. Hist. Rev. VII. 393.
A personal compact … or a reall compact made mediately by mens intervention
