modecca

[Latinized from the East Indian name.] Bot.: A genus of Papayaceæ, according to Lindley; by others considered a genus of Pa ifloracem. Modecca palmata, a plant like bryony, grows in tropical Asia. The root, rubbed down with oils, is a corroborant, and, mixed with the milk of the II. Art : Every object which the artist proposes to imitate. The term is used in an absolute sense IMG:content-1307.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Of things : (1) Not carried or pushed to exce ; not extreme, violent, or rigorous. "He was himself inclined to a mild and moderate policy."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xv. (2) Of medium or mediocre quantity; not exce ive, medium. "A moderate and beseeming share." Milton: Comus , 769. (3) Fair, not exce ively high. "What was then considered as the moderate interest of eight per cent."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xx. (4) Not too luxurious or expensive; as, a moder ate table. (5) Not too severe, tolerably mild.' "The milde ayre with season moderate." Spenser: F. Q., II. xii. 61. B. As substantive: Scotch Church Hist . (pl.): A party in the Estab lished Church of Scotland, which was dominant by the sculptor or painter to expre the living in its councils during the greater part of the model, male or female, from which he studies and executes a figure. The sculptor also applies the eighteenth century and the early part of the nine term to the original of a work modeled in clay, teenth. It claimed to avoid extremes of doctrine, which he intends afterward to execute in marble, discipline, . The germ of moderatism began to and also the plaster model from this first figure, develop soon after the Revolution Settlement of The clay model is the work directly from the hand 1689; it was strengthened by the Act of Parliament, of the sculptor, and, properly speaking, is the origipa ed in 1712, reintroducing patronage, of which nal work, of which the marble work is the copy.