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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_144904" /> == | |||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' a.) [[Kept]] within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' a.) [[Limited]] as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' a.) Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' a.) Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' a.) Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' a.) Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' a.) Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed. </p> <p> '''(10):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To preside as a moderator. </p> <p> '''(11):''' ''' (''' a.) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind. </p> <p> '''(12):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. </p> <p> '''(13):''' ''' (''' v. t.) 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. </p> | |||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_61472" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_61472" /> == | ||
<p> MOD'ERATE, a. L. moderatus, from moderor, to limit, from modus, a limit. </p> 1. Literally, limited restrained hence, temperate observing reasonable bounds in indulgence as moderate in eating or drinking, or in other gratifications. 2. | <p> MOD'ERATE, a. L. moderatus, from moderor, to limit, from modus, a limit. </p> 1. Literally, limited restrained hence, temperate observing reasonable bounds in indulgence as moderate in eating or drinking, or in other gratifications. 2. Limited in quantity not excessive or expensive. He keeps a moderate table. 3. [[Restrained]] in passion, ardor or temper not violent as moderate men of both parties. 4. Not extreme in opinion as a moderate Calvinist or Lutheran. 5. [[Placed]] between extremes holding the mean or middle place as reformation of a moderate kind. 6. [[Temperate]] not extreme, violent or rigorous as moderate weather a moderate winter moderate heat a moderate breeze of wind. 7. Of a middle rate as men of moderate abilities. 8. Not swift as a moderate walk. <p> MOD'ERATE, To restrain from excess of any kind to reduce from a state of violence to lessen to allay to repress as, to moderate rage, action, desires, &c. to moderate heat or wind. </p> 1. To temper to make temperate to qualify. <p> By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water. </p> <p> MOD'ERATE, To become less violent, severe, rigorous or intense. The cold or winter usually moderates in March the heat of summer moderates in September. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_51209" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_51209" /> == | ||
<p> To moderate a call, in the | <p> To moderate a call, in the Church of Scotland, is, under the presidency of one of the clergy, to publicly announce and give in an invitation to a minister or licentiate to take the charge of a parish; which announcement or invitation, thus given in' the hearing of the assembled parishioners, is regarded as the first legal step towards a settlement. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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<ref name="term_144904"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/moderate Moderate from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_61472"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/king-james-dictionary/moderate Moderate from King James Dictionary]</ref> | <ref name="term_61472"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/king-james-dictionary/moderate Moderate from King James Dictionary]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_51209"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/moderate Moderate from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_51209"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/moderate Moderate from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
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