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To moderate. [Obs.]

Modeate; temperate. [Obs.]

Moderation. [Obs.] Caxton.

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.

The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.

Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion.

With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately. Allegro moderato, a little slower than allegro. -- Andante moderato, a little faster than andante.

One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh. Angling was ... a moderator of passions. Walton.

The office of a moderator.

A female moderator. Fuller.

A female moderator.

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.