Results for moderate
Definitions of moderate:
part of speech: verb transitive
To keep within bounds; lassen; to make less violent, intense, or extreme; as, to moderate rage, heat, etc.
part of speech: adjective
Kept within bounds; not extreme nor excessive.
part of speech: verb transitive
To keep within measure or bounds: to regulate: to reduce in intensity: to make temperate or reasonable: to pacify: to decide as a moderator.
part of speech: verb intransitive
To become less violent or intense.
part of speech: adjective
Kept within measure or bounds: not excessive or extreme: temperate: of middle rate.
part of speech: adverb
Moderately.
part of speech: adjective
Temperate; observing reasonable bounds, as in the indulgence of the appetites, in expressing opinions, & c.; not excessive, as in price or value; not extreme, as in opinions.
part of speech: verb intransitive
To become less violent or intense: to preside as a moderator.
part of speech: verb
To restrain from excess of any kind; to regulate; to reduce or lessen in violence or intensity; to allay; to pacify; to become less violent or intense.
part of speech: noun
Usage examples for moderate:
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On the one hand, the voice of Heaven must be obeyed; on the other, he had a wife, six children, and a very moderate fortune.
"Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour", Francis Parkman -
A foot motion leaves both the workman's hands free to adjust and change the work, and is therefore suitable for light work or work having holes of a moderate depth.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II", Joshua Rose -
Who, again, is to determine what prices are really " moderate ones?
"Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition", Henry C. Carey -
I grant that the Romans have but a moderate respect for the law.
"The Roman Question", Edmond About