1852, Traverse Oldfield[pseudonym; George Whitefield Samson],“To Daimonion,” or The Spiritual Medium. Its Nature Illustrated by the History of Its Uniform Mysterious Manifestation When Unduly Excited.[…], Boston, Mass.: Gould and Lincoln,[…], pages14,36, and39:
There is, again, “thewritingmedium,” the man or woman influenced seeming to lose control of the right arm, when the pen or pencil is taken;[…]. There is, finally, “thespeakingmedium,” the person influenced being lost in a swoon or trance, and then uttering strange and unaccountable sentiments and expressions. Moreover, it is now asserted as the teaching of thesemedia, that the scenes of the Salem witchcraft, so called, were the attempts of the spirits in another world to make their presence known, and to convey communications to the living.[…]Media, Persons of Nervous Organism.[…] We should not disparage at all, we wish not to do so, the character of those who are generally themedia. We allude not to the fact that they are generally young, and inexperienced, and females.
1854,Mary Howitt, compiler, “[Appendix.] Spiritual Manifestations.”, inThe History of Magic.[…], volume II, London: Henry G. Bohn,[…],pages491–494:
[A]n alphabetic and telegraphic correspondence was established between members of the Fox family and the mysterious invisible agent. Two daughters of Mr. Fox appear to have been the principalmedia in the communications thus far;[…] [I]t was calculated that in September, 1853, there were thirty thousandmedia in the United States.[…] Many of the earliermedia or vehicles of these communications, persons whose peculiar nervous and electric temperament was thought to favour intercourse with, departed spirits, asserted, and their friends confirmed the fact, that these invisible powers, by certain distinct knockings, corresponding to the place of the letters in the alphabet, were able to convey messages.[…] [T]hese rappings assumed protean forms. They would occur[…] when the feet of themedia were isolated on glass stools,[…].Media with no taste for music, when impressed, would play well on the piano;[…]
At a private circle, one evening in the early part of last week, whereof the twomedia of whom I spoke in my last formed a part, we were directed, through the raps, to place a guitar under the table.[…] At a subsequent meeting of the same persons, held at the house of Mr. B., the father of Miss B., themedium, these musical performances were all repeated, with the addition of some extra performances with a small hand-bell, which the Spirit called for.
1857, J. G. H. Brown, “Further Revelations as Instructions from the Celestial Powers”, inA Message from the World of Spirits, Shewing the State of Men after Death;[…], London:[…]Holyoake & Co.,[…],pages279–280:
As a confirmation of these revelations, there are severalmedia in different parts of the world who have declared that they have seen various communications from spirits of high orders, who have declared that, for furtherance of God’s eternal will,one centralmedium or prophet shall be established,[…]. Mr. J. Jones, of Coventry, whose son is amedium, has written an able article on this subject, which has appeared in several periodicals, and all themedia candidly acknowledge that this prophet has never been revealed unto them, and as these revelations were obtained in 1854, and I had seen the accounts given by othermedia recently published, declaring to their being informed that a prophet should come,[…] I, in August, 1856, determined to send forth the revelations received two years since respecting myself and others, in reference to our instructions upon the establishment of the New Era and the true universal church of Christ, and thus prove that the event was foretold by othermedia who knew nothing of me, or the affairs into which I had embarked;[…]
1872 December 31, T. Grant,A Scientific View of Modern Spiritualism.[…], London:James Burns,[…], pages6–7 and15:
[A]smedia often rebel, and neglect their appointed guides, they lay themselves open to the influences of evil spirits, who appear to be always alive for mischief, as we find too much the case in the earth-life. It is not themedium alone who is thus provided with a protector;[…] There are well-knownmedia in England who have thus in a short time devoured the chief contents of whole libraries.[…] I must now get on to the next class, namely,Pictorial Mediumship, which differs from the Symbolic chiefly in the circumstance that the things seen and described by themedium do not in reality exist as material facts, but are only representations, prefiguring or bodying-forth a spiritual or psychical truth. Ezekiel, Daniel, the writer of the Apocalypse, and Swedenborg are instances of Pictorialmedia, and there are many beautiful examples amongst modernmedia, of whom T. L. Harris is one of the most eminent; Judge Edmonds, of America, is another instance.
1972, Åke Haglund,Contact and Conflict: Studies in Contemporary Religious Attitudes among Chinese People, Lund: CWK Gleerups,→OCLC,page191:
The author visited the temple at Magazine Road, dedicated to the Nine Sovereigns, wheretang-ki,media, were at the service of the public in order to communicate between the deceased and the living.[…] Severalmedia kicked a heated glowing red iron ball[…]. Othermedia danced to and fro swinging their swords fighting the unseen demons.[…] [M]ale devotees led by themedia walked across the scorching coals in an act of purification.[…] In Penang the day ends with amedium possessed by the “Ninth Sovereign” being carried to the beach.
As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainmentmedia and, second, web-basedmedia, traditional print-basedmedia has declined in popularity.
(often treated as uncountable) The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popularmedia likeTop Gun.
2020, Jordan Raynor,Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do, page161:
[…] yet they are all wildly popular pieces ofmedia, viewed by millions of Christians and non-Christians alike. Why? Because they are first and foremost masterful movies and TV shows. Their creators made something worth seeing and sharing.
(usually with a definite article; often treated as uncountable) Thejournalists and otherprofessionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where themedia bombards them with questions.
(computing) Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text;audiovisual material.
“media”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03
"media", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008),Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Bothmedia andmédia are used in European Portuguese, withmedia being the more common form, often italicized to denote the foreign origin and to distinguish it from the verb form ofmedir. In Brazilian Portuguese the variantmídia, in the singular, is often used.
In most of Latin America,media covers both sock and stocking as a single concept. When it is necessary to distinguish between the two,calceta is used for "stocking" andcalcetín for "sock". In most of Mexico,media is only used for stockings except in reference to American baseball teams.
