mode rant ism (moderantizm)

[ F.modé rantisme, cla of persons called moderates in a political sense. In Paris Robes pierre determined to increase the pre ure of the Terror; no one should accuse him of moder an tism. Encyc. Brit ., XX. 604. moderate (mod'e-rāt), v .; pret. and pp. moder Shak ., T. of A., iii. 4. 117. [James II.'s] pretensions moderate when com Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vi. The play had a moderate succe , being acted but seven times. A. Dobson, Selections from Steele, Int., p. xx. = Syn. 1. Moderate , Temperate , reasonable, judicious, mild. When used absolutely, moderate nearly always refers to a