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noun

media n.

The latinic plural form of medium, sometimes used as a singular noun with the same meaning as medium; as, (Computers) place your installation media into the device which will read it; (Microbiology) the tuberculosis bacterium will only grow in a special media.

The public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, collectively; the news media; as, the media were obsessed with Monica Lewinsky for months.

Media n. (pl. mediae)

(Phonetics) One of the sonant mutes beta, delta, gamma (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, pi, tau, kappa (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) phi, theta, chi (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... These officers are the sole depositaries, the authorized trustees of divine grace; whose decision, whether they open or shut the gate of mercy, is registered in heaven and is without appeal. Not that they can play with this power, and dispose of it by arbitrary will. The media through which it is to flow have been divinely appointed: its channels are limited to certain physical substances and bodily acts or postures, selected at first hand for the purpose:—water at one time, bread at another, oil at a third, handling of the head at a ...

— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various

... in France; of the miracle plays which were performed in England at the same time; the Commedia spiritiuale of thirteenth-century Italy and the Geistliche Schauspiele of fourteenth-century Germany. These mummeries with their admixture of church song, pointed the way as media of edification to the dramatic representations of Biblical scenes which Saint Philip Neri used to attract audiences to hear his sermons in the Church of St. Mary in Vallicella, in Rome, and the sacred musical dramas came to be called oratorios. While ...

— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... oculo in fronte media in signes; quibus assidue bellum esse circa metella cum gryphis, ferarum volucri genere, quale vulgo traditur, eruente ex cuniculis aurum, mire cupiditate et feris custodientibus, et Arimaspis rapientibus, multi, sed maxime illustres Herodotus et Aristeas ...

— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

... Boileau-Despreaux and Prayer for the Dead All Saints and All Souls Mrs. Sadlier. Leibnitz on the Mass as a Propitiatory Sacrifice Extracts from "A Troubled Heart" Eugenie de Guerin and her Brother Maurice Passages from the "Via Media" Newman. All Souls From the French. An Anglican Bishop Praying for the Dead "Purgatory" of Dante Mariotti. Month of November Mary E. Blake. Litany of the Departed Acolytus. All Souls' Day Mrs. Sadlier. Cemeteries Opinions of Various ...

— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier

... subject to the Arsacids. There were indeed vassal states on every hand, but the actual possessions of the kings—the provinces governed by their satraps—consisted of a rather narrow strip of land stretching from the Euphrates and north Babylonia through southern Media and Parthia as far as north-western Afghanistan... Round these provinces lay a ring of minor states which as a rule were dependent on the Arsacids. They might, however, partially transfer their allegiance on the rise of a new power (e.g. Tigranes in Armenia) ...

— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

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