*moder*

n. [ Homo- + -derm. ] (Biol.) Homology of the germinal layers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Immoderate. ] Immoderateness. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. immoderantia. ] Immoderateness; excess. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. immoderatus; pref. im- not + moderatus moderate. See Moderate. ] Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter. [ 1913 Webster ]

So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint. Shak.

Syn. -- Excessive; exorbitant; unreasonable; extravagant; intemperate; inordinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an immoderate manner; excessively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance. Puller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. immoderatio: cf. F. imodération. ] Lack of moderation. Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To moderate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. See Mother female parent. ] 1. A mother. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. moderabilis. ] Moderate; temperate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Moderation. [ Obs. ] Caxton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To preside as a moderator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dr. Barlow [ was ] engaged . . . to moderate for him in the divinity disputation. Bp. Barlow's Remains (1693). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. moderatus, p. p. of moderate, moderati, to moderate, regulate, control, fr. modus measure. See Mode. ] Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: (a) Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. (b) Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors. (c) Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist; a moderate Republican. [ 1913 Webster ]

A number of moderate members managed . . . to obtain a majority in a thin house. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter. “Moderate showers.” Walter. (e) Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed. (f) Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities. (g) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Moderated p. pr. & vb. n. Moderating. ] 1. To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting or a discussion; as, to moderate a synod; to moderate a debate. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adj. having elements or qualities mixed in proper or suitable proportions; especially, made less severe. Contrasted with harsh.
Syn. -- qualified, tempered. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. lessening in intensity or strength. Opposite of intensifying. [ Narrower terms: tempering; weakening ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. moderatio: cf. F. modération. ] 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. [ 1913 Webster ]

In moderation placing all my glory,
While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The calm and judicious moderation of Orange. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. & adv. [ It. See Moderate. ] (Mus.) With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately. [ 1913 Webster ]

Allegro moderato, a little slower than allegro. --
Andante moderato, a little faster than andante. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. modérateur. ] 1. One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Angling was . . . a moderator of passions. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The officer who presides over an assembly or discussion to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a moderator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female moderator. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A female moderator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. moderne, L. modernus; akin to modo just now, orig. abl. of modus measure; hence, by measure, just now. See Mode. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. New and common; trite; commonplace. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Modern English. See the Note under English. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Modernization. [ Chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- modernizing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Certain methods and tendencies which, in Biblical questions, apologetics, and the theory of dogma, in the endeavor to reconcile the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church with the conclusions of modern science, replace the authority of the church by purely subjective criteria; -- so called officially by Pope Pius X. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. moderniste. ] 1. One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An advocate of the teaching of modern subjects, as modern languages, in preference to the ancient classics. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. Conspicuously (sometimes outrageously) modern in style or appearance; as, shiny tables in modernistic design. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Modernness; something modern. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Modernized p. pr. & vb. n. Modernizing ] [ Cf. F. moderniser. ] To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who modernizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In modern times. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time. Opposite of modern. [ Narrower terms: antebellum; fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal), stodgy old-fashioned; medieval, mediaeval, gothic; old-time, quaint; unmodernized; victorian; old-fashioned, outmoded; old-world ] Also See: old, past. [ WordNet 1.5 ]