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fld>(Gram.), n. A modal auxiliary. [ PJC ]

fld>(Gram.), n. Any one of the auxiliary verbs of English, such as can, may, will, shall, must, might, could, would, or should, which are used together with the infinitive form of another verb to express distinctions of mood{ 2 }, such as uncertainty, possibility, command, emphasis, and obligation. [ PJC ]

n. (Theol.) One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity. Eadie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. modalité. ] 1. The quality or state of being modal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic & Metaph.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A system of logic which studies how to combine propositions which include the concepts of necessity, possibility, and obligation. [ PJC ]

adv. In a modal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

A compound proposition, the parts of which are united modally . . . by the particles “as” and “so.” Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. modus a measure, due or proper measure, bound, manner, form; akin to E. mete: cf. F. mode. See Mete, and cf. Commodious, Mood in grammar, Modus. ] 1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

A table richly spread in regal mode. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode. [ 1913 Webster ]

The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Variety; gradation; degree. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Metaph.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Logic) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Gram.) Same as Mood. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mus.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognized. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A kind of silk. See Alamode, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Gram.) the value of the variable in a frequency distribution or probability distribution, at which the probability or frequency has a maximum. The maximum may be local or global. Distributions with only one such maximum are called unimodal; with two maxima, bimodal, and with more than two, multimodal. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Method; manner. See Method. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband. [ 1913 Webster ]