'Via media' definitions:
Definition of 'via media'
From: WordNet
noun
A middle way between two extremes [syn: compromise, via media]
Definition of 'Via media'
From: GCIDE
- Via \Vi"a\ (v[imac]"[.a] or v[=e]"[.a]), n. [L. See Way.] A road or way. [1913 Webster]
- Via Lactea [L.] (Astron.), the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See Galaxy, 1.
- Via media [L.] (Theol.), the middle way; -- a name applied to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term extreme Protestantism. [1913 Webster]