moderate

From Middle English moderat, from Latin moderātus, perfect active participle of moderor (“regulate, restrain, moderate”), from moder-, modes-, a stem appearing also in modestus (“moderate, discreet, modest”), from modus (“measure”); see mode and modest.

• Adjective, noun:
  • (UK): IPA^(key): /ˈmɒdəɹət/
  • (US): enPR: mäd'ər-ət, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdəɹət/

• Audio (US), adjective and noun

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• Verb:
  • (UK): IPA^(key): /ˈmɒdəɹeɪt/
  • (US): enPR: mäd'ə-rāt, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdəɹeɪt/

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moderate (comparative more moderate, superlative most moderate)

1. Not excessive; acting in moderation

   moderate language

   a moderate Calvinist

   travelling at a moderate speed

   • Jonathan Swift

     A number of moderate members managed […] to obtain a majority in a thin house.

2. Mediocre
3. Average priced; standard-deal
4. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.

   a moderate winter

   • Walter

     moderate showers

5. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.

• See also Thesaurus:moderate
• See also Thesaurus:intermediate

• moderately
• moderateness

moderate (plural moderates)

1. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.

   While the moderates usually propose political compromise, it's often only achieved when the extremists allow them so

   The moderates are the natural advocates of ecumenism against the fanatics of their churches.

2. (Christianity, historical) One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.

moderate (third-person singular simple present moderates, present participle moderating, simple past and past participle moderated)

1. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something)

   to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.

   • Arbuthnot

     By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water.

   • Spenser
   • 2000, Paul G. Coleman, Positron Beams and Their Applications (page 309)

     This leaves two strategies to increase the current in a positron beam. First is to provide a stronger positron source and second is to develop a more efficient method to moderate the source positrons into a monoenergetic beam.

     To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive.

2. (intransitive) To become less excessive
3. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator

   to moderate a synod

4. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise

• (reduce excesses) temperate
• (preside) arbitrate, chair

• moderation
• moderating

• modal
• modality
• mode
• model
• moderator
• module

• moderate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• moderate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

moderate

1. inflection of moderat:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

moderate

1. inflection of moderare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
2. feminine plural of moderato

• dateremo

moderāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of moderō

• moderate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• moderate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

moderate

1. definite singular of moderat
2. plural of moderat

moderate

1. definite singular of moderat
2. plural of moderat