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To act as a medium; to channel or speak for a spirit or noncorporal being.
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During the forty years that Moses mediumized for the god of the Hebrews, there was no need of diviners or their arts.
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because then our périsprit, acting on the périsprit of him whom we mediumize, has only to give impulsion to the hand which serves us as a pen-holder; while with insufficient mediums we are obliged to perform a labor analogous to that we do when we communicate by rappings, designating letter by letter, word by word, each of the phrases which form the translation of the thoughts we wish to communicate.
When we say that to make myths is to hypersuggest we are not also saying that to mediumize is to hypersuggest . That would be an aberration because the best work of the medium is not done when the individual is in a hypersuggestive state .
To make into a spiritual medium; to imbue with spiritual energy.
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And each guardian mind of the spiritual group contributes its propoertion of magnetic emanation, to form a line of communication, just as each person in the terrestrial group lends his or her mental and physical influence to mediumize the table.
Their exercise promotes and advances the individual to the superior state; to attain which, many minds are obliged first to be magnetized or mediumized.
He says that spirits do the healing and that he is mediumized throughout his healings.
To make into or act as a medium of exchange.
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None of the Alliance Exchanges issue anything intended as a circulating medium. The Bank alone mediumizes securites.
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... the former professedly reducing money to simply and only a medium of exchange, a counter in trade, destroying all its private investment and private money-loaning qualities by placing upon the collectivity the duty of mediumizing all values, which is but another way of saying that the government shall be the only money loaner; the latter requiring of all labor-employing industries a recognized responsibility to public supervision and control in regard to wages and dividends and profits, involving a most abject subjection of private affairs to a most inquisitorial public inspection.
To transition into using a medium of exchange.
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The discovery of America brought on expansion of commerce and trade, and the guild system was no longer able to meet the demands made upon it; then with the advent of capitalism, trade became gradually mediumized and the demand for increase in production was accomplished by the numerous inventions and discoveries of the eighteenth century.
There was a considerable increase in the number of small and medium peasant's holdings, a mediumizing process taking place in the whole Yugoslav economy at the time as a result;
To act as an intermediary; to translate from one context to another.
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Whatever has happened outside this brain, without its instigation, is automatically transformed by the process of assimilating, or mediumizing, it.
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In terms of "mediumizing" between art and life, to use Mary Josephson's idea, it is one of the most consummate of Rauschenberg's achievements, all of which are defined by temporal signatures.
to quote in this connection the words of the French philosopher Baudrillard: 'Anyhow, to me the whole problem seems to be that nowadays events are no longer mediumized, mediated by the media, but that they are rather construed in the service of the media.'
Objects transposed to the other side of the screen, mediumized (we don't even enjoy the good old status of passive spectator any more), hypostasized as if transfigured in situ, on the spot, by aesthetic or mediatic decision, transfigured in their specific habits and ways of life, as living museum exhibits.
To finish by applying a medium.
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There is no better method, beside retouching upon mediumized films than using a hard shellac varnish, and rubbing over the solution of resin in turpentine, mentioned in the chapter on Materials.
Unsatisfactory attempts at retouching may be removed with the finger rag slightly mostened with spirits of turpentine (the best), and then the negative is re-mediumized with the regular retouching medium for another trial.
To make less extreme; to make medium in size or intensity.
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We've got one or two highly mediumizing institutions – the public schools, 'cricket' in its various forms – but as a people we're chockfull of extremism.
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We have no intention to minimize, or even mediumize, the difficulties and disappointments that lie ahead in the task of creating computer programs capable of understanding natural language.
In that case we would be better off maximizing, or perhaps "mediumizing", the numbers of postulated changes.