Mediatize /(?)/

Me·di·a·tize

Mediatize

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Mediatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Mediatizing

  1. 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.