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In modern times. Milton.

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

Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.

Homology of the germinal layers.

Immoderateness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Immoderateness; excess. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter. So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Shak.

In an immoderate manner; excessively.

The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance. Puller.

Want of moderation. Hallywell.

The covering of a seed; -- sometimes limited to the outer coat or testa. Lindley.

uide to pronunciation, §§ 43-74. The regular long a, as in fate, etc., is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the quality of ä (as in far).

rom a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; toto cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deut. xxxiv. 7.

Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet. Gibbon.

n abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general…

he taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. [Modern]

g. [Obs.] Here the word "baron" is not to be taken in that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it. Fuller. Acception of persons or faces (Eccl.), favoritism; partiality. [Obs.] Wyclif.

the purpose of raising money on credit. -- Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. -- Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.

The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. Johnson.

To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat. Arbuthnot.