Moderate
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( a.) Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
(2): ( v. t.) To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.
(3): ( v. i.) To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
(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.
(5): ( a.) Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.
(6): ( a.) Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.
(7): ( a.) Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist.
(8): ( a.) Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.
(9): ( a.) Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.
(10): ( v. i.) To preside as a moderator.
(11): ( a.) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.
(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.
(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.
King James Dictionary [2]
MOD'ERATE, a. L. moderatus, from moderor, to limit, from modus, a limit.
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.
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.
1. To temper to make temperate to qualify.
By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water.
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.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
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.
