Mediatized

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mediatize \Me"di*a*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mediatized}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Mediatizing}.] [Cf. F. m['e]diatiser.]
     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.
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           The misfortune of being a mediatized prince.
                                                    --Beaconsfield.
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