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Mediatize   Listen
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Mediatize  v. t.  (past & past part. mediatized; pres. part. mediatizing)  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."





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"Mediatize" Quotes from Famous Books



... than any King of them all. Would they had even a small share of his virtues! Another proof and a still stronger one of the great integrity and honor of this excellent Prince, is, that when Napoleon offered to mediatize in his favor the various ducal Houses in Saxony, such as Weimar, Gotha, Cobourg, etc., and to annex these countries to his dominions, he declined the offer. Would Prussia, Austria, or Hanover have ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye


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