Moderate

mod′ėr-āt, v.t. to keep within measure or bounds: to regulate: to reduce in intensity: to make temperate or reasonable: to pacify: to decide as a moderator.— v.i. to become le violent or intense: to preside or act as a moderator.— adj. kept within measure or bounds: not exce ive or extreme: temperate: of middle rate.— n. one of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of Evangelic an ism and popular rights—it caused the sece ions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.— adv. Mod′erately .— ns. Mod′eratene ; Moderā′tion , act of moderating: state of being moderated or moderate: freedom from exce : calmne of mind; Mod′eratism , moderate opinions in religion or politics.— adv. Moderä′to ( mus. ), with moderate quickne .— ns. Mod′erātor , one who, or that which, moderates or restrains: a president or chairman, esp. in Presbyterian Church courts: an officer at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge who superintends the examination for degrees: a kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated:— fem. Mod′eratrix ; Mod′eratorship . [L. moderāri , -ātus — modus , a measure.]