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To MOD'ERATE, v.n. To prefide in a deputation, 
and regulate the controverfy.—Some time after the year 
1650, I)r. Barlow [was] engaged by Dr. Langbain, the 
provoft of Queen’s college in Oxford, to moderate for him 
in the divinity-difputations. Note in Bp. Barlow's Rem. 
MOD'ERATELY, adv. Temperately; mildly.—All 
perfons "having juft caufe of ficknefs, or other neceffity, or 
being licenfed by the king’s majefty, may moderately eat 
all kinds of meats, without grudge or fcruple of confci- 
ence. Vi Illation-Articles of Edw. VI. —In a middle degree. 
—Blood in a healthy ftate, when let out, its red part fliould 
congeal ftrongly and foon, in a mafs moderately tough, and 
fwim in the ferum. Arlmthnot on Aliments. 
Each nymph but moderately fair, 
Commands wdth no lefs rigor here. Waller. 
MOD'ERATENESS, J'. State of being moderate ; tem- 
peratenefs. ModcratcneJ's is commonly uled of things, and 
moderation of'perfons. 
MODERATING, f. The aft of making temperate. 
MOD'ERATION, J. [moderatio, L at.] Forbearance of 
extremity ; the contrary temper to party-violence ; ftate 
of keeping adue mean betwixt extremes.—A zeal in things 
pertaining to God, according to knowledge, and yet duly 
tempered wdth candor and prudence, is the true notion of 
that much talked-of,much mifunderftood, virtue, modera¬ 
tion. Atterbury. 
In moderation placing all my glory, 
While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory. Pope. 
Calmnefs of mind ; equanimity ; [ moderation , Fr. Johifon. 
—Moderation is not derived from the word medium, but 
from modus; and that from the Hebrew madad, he mea- 
fured ; or middah, a rule or meafure ; and in the Greek is 
ftyled p-sTfioIvs, from pirfov, a meafure : wdience it is evi¬ 
dent, that moderation, qaroperly fo called, and in the moral 
lenfe of the word, belongs only to things in which we are 
fubjeft to a vicious excels, or to aft beyond that rule or 
meafure which feripture, or religion, doth preferibe for 
the due regulation of our aftions and pafiions; and it re- 
fpefts firft and principally the government of ourpafiions; 
whence the due government of them is by philofophers 
ftyled piETpiowaSeia, “ the moderation of our paftions .” 
Whitby, Paraplir.on the N. Tell. Todd.}— Let your mode¬ 
ration [in old tranllations, J'oftnefs, madefy, patience, gen- 
tltnejs] be known unto all men. Phil. iv. 5. 
Equally inur’d 
By moderation either ftate to bear, 
Prolperous, or adverle. Milton's ParadiJ'e Lojl. 
Frugality in expenfe. Ainfwotth. , 
MODERA'TOR, f [Latin.] The perfon or thing that 
calms or reftrains.—Hope, that fweet moderator of paftions, 
as Simonides calls it. Burton's Amt. of Mel. —Angling was, 
after tedious lhtdy, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a mo¬ 
derator of pafiions, and a procurer of contentednefs. Wal¬ 
ton's Angler. —One who prefides in a difputation, to re¬ 
train the contending parties from indecency, and coniine 
them to the queltion.—The firft perfon who lpeaks when 
the court is let, opens the cafe to the judge, chairman, or 
moderator, of the alfembly, and gives his own reafons for 
his opinion. Watts. —Sometimes the moderator is more 
troublefome than the aftor. Bacon. 
MODERA'TRIX, f. A female who prefides in depu¬ 
tations ; a female who moderates. Scott. 
MOD'ERN, adj. [ynoderne, Fr. from medernus, low Lat. 
fuppofed a cafual corruption of hediernus .] Late, recent; 
not ancient, not antique.—Some of the ancient, and like- 
wife divers of the modern, writers, that have laboured in 
natural magick, have noted a lympathy between the fun 
and certain herbs. Bacon. 
The glorious parallels then downward bring 
To modern wonders, and to Britain’s king. Prior. 
In Shakefpeare, vulgar; mean; common.—Trifles, fuch 
as we prelent modern friends withal. ShukeJ’peare. 
MOD 
The juftice 
With eyes fevere and beard of formal cut, 
Full of wife faws and modern inftances. Shakefpeare. 
MOD'ERN, f. One of thofe who have lived lately, op- 
pofed to the ancients.—There are moderns who, with a 
flight variation, adopt the opinion of Plato. Boyle on 
Colours. 
Some by old words to fame have made pretence; 
Ancients in phrafe, mere moderns in their fenfe ! Pope. 
MOD'ERN, or Mod'dra, a town of Hungary: four¬ 
teen miles north-north-eaft of Prelburg. 
To MOD'ERNISE, v. a. To adapt ancient compofitions 
to modern perfons or things; to change from ancient into 
modern language.—Another copy of this poem, but great¬ 
ly altered and fomewhat modernized, is preferred in the 
Advocates’ Library at Edinburgh. Bp. Percy's Eff. on the 
Anc. Metrical Romances .•— He mudernijed the more antient 
narratives of the miracles and martyrdoms of the molt 
eminent eaftern and weftern faints.. Warton. 
MODERNISER, /.’ One who adapts ancient compofi¬ 
tions to modern perlons or things.—Mr. Neville, no un- 
fuccefsful modernizer of the Latin fatyrifts. Wakefield. 
MOD'ERNISING, J. The aft of making modern; of 
clothing in a modern drefs. 
MOD'ERNISM, f. Deviation from the ancient and 
clallical manner. A word invented by Swift.—Scribblers 
lend us over their tralh in profe and verfe, with abominable 
curtailings and quaint modernijms. Swift. 
MODERNIST, J'. One who admires the moderns.— 
The bafe detrafting world would not have then dared to 
report, that Wotton’s brain had undergone an unlucky 
fhake, which even his brother modernijts themfelves, like 
ungrates, do whifper fo loud, that it reacheth up to the 
very garret I am now writing in. Swift's Tale of a Tub. 
MODERNNESS, /. Novelty. 
MOD'ERWITZ, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 
Neuftadt l one mile fouth-eaft of Neuftadt. 
MOD'EST, adj. [ modefte, Fr. modejius, Lat.] Not ar¬ 
rogant; not prefumptuous ; not boaftful; balhful.—An- 
tiochus wept, becaufe of the fober and modejl behaviour 
of him that was dead, a 3 Iacc. lv. 37. 
Of boafting more than of a tomb afraid ; 
A foldier Ihould be modejl as a maid. Young. 
Not impudent; not forward : 
Refolve me with all modejl hafte, which way 
Thou might’ft deferve or they impole this ufage. Slialiefp. 
Her face, as in a nymph difplay'd 
A fair fierce boy, or in a boy betray’d 
The blulhing beauties of a modejl maid. Dryden's Ovid. 
Not loofe ; not unchafte; decent.—Mrs. Ford, the honeft 
woman, the modeft wife, the virtuous creature, that hath 
the jealous fool to her hulband. Shakefpeare .—Not excel- 
five ; not extreme; moderate; within a mean.—During 
the laft four years, by a modejl computation, there have 
been brought into Breft above fix millions fterling in bul¬ 
lion. Addi/on. 
MODESTLY, adv. Not arrogantly; not prefumptu- 
ouily.—I may modeftly conclude, that,whatever errors there 
may be in this play, there are not thofe which have been' 
objefted to it. Dryden's Don Sebaftian. 
Tho’ learn’d, well-bred ; and, tho’ well-bred, lincere ; 
Modeftly bold, and humanly fevere. Pope. 
Not impudently; not forwardly; wdth refpeft : 
I, your glafs, 
Will modeftly difcover to yourfelf 
That of yourfelf which yet you know not of. Shakefpeare. 
Not loofely ; not lewdly; with decency.—Not excelfively ; 
with moderation.—To proceed modeftly, is alfo an ho¬ 
nourable quality in him that conquereth ; for, in profper- 
ous fortunes, men do hardly refrain covetous and proud 
doings; yea, feme good and great captains have, in like 
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