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  • English Word Moderate Definition 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.
  • English Word Moderate Definition To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.
  • English Word Moderate Definition To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
  • English Word Moderate Definition To preside as a moderator.
  • English Word Moderated Definition of Moderate
  • English Word Moderately Definition In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent.
  • English Word Moderateness Definition The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
  • English Word Moderating Definition of Moderate
  • English Word Moderation Definition The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
  • English Word Moderation Definition The state or quality of being mmoderate.
  • English Word Moderation Definition Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation.
  • English Word Moderation Definition The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.
  • English Word Moderatism Definition Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion.
  • English Word Moderato Definition With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately.
  • English Word Moderator Definition One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.
  • English Word Moderator Definition The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.
  • English Word Moderator Definition 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.
  • English Word Moderator Definition A mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
  • English Word Moderatorship Definition The office of a moderator.
  • English Word Moderatress Definition A female moderator.
  • English Word Moderatrix Definition A female moderator.
  • English Word Modern Definition 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.
  • English Word Modern Definition New and common; trite; commonplace.
  • English Word Modern Definition A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
  • English Word Modernism Definition Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
  • English Word Modernist Definition One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
  • English Word Modernity Definition Modernness; something modern.
  • English Word Modernization Definition The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
  • English Word Modernize Definition To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
  • English Word Modernized Definition of Modernize