Definition of Mediatize

1. v. t. 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.

Definition of Mediatize

1. Verb. To annex a country while allowing the ruler of the country to retain certain rights ¹

2. Verb. To mediate ¹

3. Verb. (obsolete) To be mediatized by the Roman Empire ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mediatize

1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mediatize

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mediatised
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mediatizations
mediatize (current term)
mediatized
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Literary usage of Mediatize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1861)
"Prince Metternich did not hesitate to mediatize these Prince-bishops, nor would he have scrupled to mediatize part of the Pope-king's territories. ..."

2. The Winning of the War: A Sequel to "Pan-Germanism" by Roland Greene Usher (1918)
"It would as promptly mediatize and destroy the sovereign power of all the kings and princes. No German army as such legally exists, for each state still ..."

3. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1880)
"... to decide at the last moment to obey the Emperor Francis Joseph's summons to the assembly of princes, and thus in a certain sense to mediatize himself. ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"Europe combined could, without bloodshed, mediatize all the German states but two, Germany so strengthened might resign part of the Rhine, ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"[She] never can conceive that it is necessary or possible to mediatize the Sovereigns . . . or that the different armies can be amalgamated. ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"To constitute a Regent for all Germany, in whose hands is to be lodged the sovereign administration of affairs, is in fact to dethrone and mediatize the ..."

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