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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.