(a) In a middle state between two extremes; (b) phys. & physiol. of color, temperament, food, etc.: of a mixed quality or character; (c) moderate in size or quantity; ~ assise [see assise n. 6]; ~ consoude [see consoude]; (d) partaking of the qualities or characteristics of two extremes; of an odd number: divisible only by itself and unity; of a method of translation: neither free nor literal; gram. of a noun: not strictly classifiable as abstract or concrete.

(a) Of place, space: in between two places or positions; fig. of an obstacle: intervening; of items in a list: not at the beginning or end; ~ hanse [see hanse n.1. (b)]; ~ soule, the soul at the center; ~ weie, the mid-point, half way; (b) ~ weie, a middle course, an alternative course; also, a means; (c) of time: intervening; (d) of the present time, present; ~ time, present time.

Of people: (a) of middle rank; ~ estat, a middle station in life; [not clearly separable from mene adj. (1) 2. (a)]; (b) of middle age, ~ aged.

(a) Intermediary; acting as agent; neutral; ~ yifte, a gift given through a secondary agent; (b) leading to the next stage, mediating; causal; also, of a stage in an argument: leading to a conclusion; (c) of Christ in Trinity: middle, intermediate, second.

(a) Moderate in behavior, temperate; (b) impartial; of a planet: indifferent.

Astron. ~ argument, the angle at the center of a planet's epicycle between the mean position of the planet on its epicycle and a line running through the center from the equant; ~ aux, of a planet: a line running from the equant through the center of the epicycle; ~ motus (mote), the uniformly varying angle at the earth, measured from the first point in Aries, giving the mean position of the sun or a planet in the ecliptic; also, the moving point projected by the sun or planet, as seen from earth, on the zodiac [see Price, EPlanets 93-110].