1. A mother.
2. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
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To moderate.
Modeate; temperate.
1. Literally, limited; restrained; hence, temperate; observing reasonable bounds in indulgence; as moderate in eating or drinking, or in other gratifications.
2. Limited in quantity; not excessive or expensive. He keeps a moderate table.
3. Restrained in passion, ardor or temper; not violent; as moderate men of both parties.
4. Not extreme in opinion; as a moderate Calvinist or Lutheran.
5. Placed between extremes; holding the mean or middle place; as reformation of a moderate kind.
6. Temperate; not extreme, violent or rigorous; as moderate weather; a moderate winter; moderate heat; a moderate breeze of wind.
7. Of a middle rate; as men of moderate abilities.
8. Not swift; as a moderate walk.
To become less violent, severe, rigorous or intense. The cold or winter usually moderates in March; the heat of summer moderates in September.
1. To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence; to lessen; to allay; to repress; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.
2. To temper; to make temperate; to qualify.
3. By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water.
1. Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
2. Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.
3. Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.
4. Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist.
5. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.
6. Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.
7. Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.
8. Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.
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.
1. To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
2. To preside as a moderator.
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.
2. To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.
1. Temperately; mildly; without violence.
2. In a middle degree; ; not excessively; as water moderately warm.
3. Each nymph but moderately fair.
In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent.
The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
of Moderate
1. The state of being moderate, or of keeping a due mean between extremes or excess of violence. The General's moderation after victory was more honorable than the victory itself.
2. In moderation placing all my glory,
4. Restraint of violent passions or indulgence of appetite. Eat and drink with moderation; indulge with moderation in pleasures and exercise.
5. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear prosperity or adversity with moderation
6. Frugality in expenses.
1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
2. The state or quality of being mmoderate.
3. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation.
4. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.
Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion.
With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately.
1. He or that which moderates or restrains. Contemplation is an excellent moderator of the passions.
2. The person who presides over a meeting or assembly of people to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings and declare the vote; as the moderator of a town meeting or of a society.
1. One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.
2. The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.
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.
4. A mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
The office of a moderator.
The office of a moderator.
A female moderator.
A female moderator.
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.
2. New and common; trite; commonplace.
A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
Modernness; something modern.
The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
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Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.
Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating: he riseth early, and his wits are with him: but the pain of watching, and choler, and pangs of the belly, are with an unsatiable man.