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adjective

Moderate adj. Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as:

(a)

Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.

(b)

Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.

(c)

Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist; a moderate Republican. "A number of moderate members managed... to obtain a majority in a thin house."

(d)

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter. "Moderate showers."

(e)

Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.

(f)

Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.

(g)

Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.

verb

Moderate v. t. (past & past part. moderated; pres. part. moderating)

To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind. "By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water." "To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive."

To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting or a discussion; as, to moderate a synod; to moderate a debate.

Moderate v. i.

To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.

To preside as a moderator. "Dr. Barlow (was) engaged... to moderate for him in the divinity disputation."

noun

Moderate n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.

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... retentive power may then be very greatly increased by judicious exercise and labor, which have that distinct end in view, just as the limbs gradually grow stronger by daily exercise. If it is accustomed to retain a moderate quantity of knowledge in childhood, it is strengthened and fitted for more rapid development in youth. That is the golden period to learn the "form of sound words," that shall exert a moulding influence ...

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... authors, three or four hundred concise and sententious phrases; these he had classed according to subject, and formed a work of them in the style of Montesquieu. To this treatise he had given the following general title: "Of Moderate Monarchy" (De la Monarchie temperee), with chapters entitled, "Of the Person of the Prince;" "Of the Authority of Bodies in the State;" "Of the Character of the Executive Functions of the Monarchy." Had he been able to carry into effect all the grand precepts ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

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— The Life of Columbus • Arthur Helps

... took it in her hands and turned the leaves very much as a child might turn those of a book in an unknown tongue, in which there were no illustrations nor anything that looked the least interesting. It was a pretty volume of moderate size, bound in purple morocco, ...

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