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e, 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.

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. Walpole.

The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.

To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy.

One who modernizes.

In modern times. Milton.

The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold.

or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.

In a modest manner.

The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.

According to the fashion or prevailing mode. "Alamode beef shops." Macaulay.

The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.

by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height. Or under high commodes, with looks erect. Granville.

To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble. [R.]

A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.

Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.

Homology of the germinal layers.

Immoderateness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.