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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.

Not limited to due bounds; immoderate.

In an immodest manner.

Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope.

To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

The act of incommoded. [Obs.] Cheyne.

The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G.

In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service. Milford.

To remodel.

Modest to excess; bashful. -- O"ver*mod"est*ly, adv.

To model or fashion anew; to change the form of. The corporation had been remodeled. Macaulay.

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).

The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

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.