moderation (mode rash on)

[ And what is all virtue but a moderation of exce es? South, Sermons, VI. 1. 2. The state or quality of being moderate or keeping a due mean between opposite extremes; freedom from exce ; temperance; due restraint. " Moderation is a good mean, though men desire a great deal." "Mesure is a mery mene" was a proverb, and is quoted by Skelton in his "Magnificence," I. 385. Richard the Redele , Notes, p. 293. Let your moderation be known unto all men. Phil. iv. 5. Pand. Be moderate, be moderate. Cres. Why tell you me of moderation ? Shak., T. and C., iv. 4. 2. The winds, that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew. Dryden, Astræa Redux, 1. 242. 3. Habitual slowne of thought, speech, or action; great deliberation. [Colloq.] -4. The act of presiding over, regulating, or directing as a moderator.-5. pl. In the University of Oxford, England, the first public examination for degrees. The introduction of English Literature as a special subject, either in Moderations or in the Final Schools. Quarterly Rev., CXXVII. 257. I believe that a man who has taken a good Cla in Moderations would, so far as mental training is concernp. 35. en History in Stubs, Medieval and Modern Hist =Syn. 2. Forbearance, equanimity, sobriety, self-restraint, mildne , composure, calmne . moderatism (mod'e-rā-tizm), n. [ ing moderate, in any sense. Specifically-2. [ cap.] [ cap.] The attitude and practice of the Moderates in the Church of Scotland. See moder