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To diminish. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.

To rate erroneously.

Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.

In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent. Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller.

The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.

A salt of moric acid.

Obedient. [Obs.]

To remunerate.

To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident or transaction; to give an account of.

A salt of nitric acid. Nitrate of silver, a white crystalline salt (AgNO3), used in photography and as a cauterizing agent; -- called also lunar caustic.

Prepared with nitrate of silver.

To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.

unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked. The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. Hooker. Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth Shak.

To bark or snarl, as a dog. [Obs.]

ear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated. W. Black.

To beseech; to supplicate; to implore. [R.]. Cockerman.

To obey. [Obs.] Johnson.

To stop or close, as an opening; specif., (Ordnance),

To shade; to darken; to cloud. [R.] Howell.