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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.

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.

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.

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.

nd A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.…

The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope.

Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.

To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [Archaic] Chaucer.

To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench.

Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple. [U.S.]

An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds. Hakluyt.