mediumize

verb7

1. •
   To act as a medium; to channel or speak for a spirit or noncorporal being.

   • During the forty years that Moses mediumized for the god of the Hebrews, there was no need of diviners or their arts. — 1897
2. •
   To make into a spiritual medium; to imbue with spiritual energy.

   • Their exercise promotes and advances the individual to the superior state; to attain which, many minds are obliged first to be magnetized or mediumized. — 1910
3. •
   To make less extreme; to make medium in size or intensity.

   • 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. — 1922
4. •
   To act as an intermediary; to translate from one context to another.

   • Whatever has happened outside this brain, without its instigation, is automatically transformed by the process of assimilating, or mediumizing, it. — 1972
5. •
   To make into or act as a medium of exchange.

   • None of the Alliance Exchanges issue anything intended as a circulating medium. The Bank alone mediumizes securites. — 1898
6. •
   To transition into using a medium of exchange.

   • 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 — 1962
7. •
   To finish by applying a medium.

   • 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. — 1880