Modalist (n.) One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity.
Modality (n.) The quality or state of being modal.
Modality (n.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.
Modally (adv.) In a modal manner.
Mode (n.) Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
Mode (n.) Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
Mode (n.) Variety; gradation; degree.
Mode (n.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.
Mode (n.) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.
Mode (n.) Same as Mood.
Mode (n.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.
Mode (n.) A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
Model (n.) A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
Model (n.) Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.
Model (n.) Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.
Model (n.) That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
Model (n.) Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
Model (n.) A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.
Model (a.) Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
Modeled (imp. & p. p.) of Model
Modelled () of Model
Modeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Model
Modelling () of Model
Model (v. t.) To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.
Model (v. i.) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
Modeler (n.) One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art.
Modeling (n.) The act or art of making a model from which a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form.
Modelize (v. t.) To model.
Modena (n.) A certain crimsonlike color.
Modenese (a.) Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants.
Modenese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Modena; the people of Modena.
Moder (n.) A mother.
Moder (n.) The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
Moder (v. t.) To moderate.
Moderable (a.) Modeate; temperate.
Moderance (n.) Moderation.
Moderate (a.) Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
Moderate (a.) Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.
Moderate (a.) Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.
Moderate (a.) Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist.
Moderate (a.) Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.
Moderate (a.) Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.
Moderate (a.) Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.
Moderate (a.) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.
Moderate (n.) One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.
Moderated (imp. & p. p.) of Moderate
Moderating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moderate
Moderate (v. t.) To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.
Moderate (v. t.) To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.
Moderate (v. i.) To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
Moderate (v. i.) To preside as a moderator.
Moderately (adv.) In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent.
Moderateness (n.) The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
Moderation (n.) The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
Moderation (n.) The state or quality of being mmoderate.
Moderation (n.) Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation.
Moderation (n.) The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.
Moderatism (n.) Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion.
Moderato (a. & adv.) With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately.
Moderator (n.) One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.
Moderator (n.) The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.
Moderator (n.) In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Moderator (n.) A mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
Moderatorship (n.) The office of a moderator.
Moderatress (n.) A female moderator.
Moderatrix (n.) A female moderator.
Modern (a.) Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.
Modern (a.) New and common; trite; commonplace.
Modern (n.) A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
Modernism (n.) Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
Modernist (n.) One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
Modernity (n.) Modernness; something modern.
Modernization (n.) The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
Modernized (imp. & p. p.) of Modernize
Modernizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Modernize
Modernize (v. t.) To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
Modernizer (n.) One who modernizes.
Modernly (adv.) In modern times.
Modernness (n.) The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty.
Modest (a.) Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.
Modest (a.) Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly in act or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent in speech and demeanor; -- said of a woman.
Modest (a.) Evincing modestly in the actor, author, or speaker; not showing presumption; not excessive or extreme; moderate; as, a modest request; modest joy.
Modestly (adv.) In a modest manner.
Modesty (n.) The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.
Modesty (n.) Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.
Modicity (n.) Moderateness; smallness; meanness.
Modicum (n.) A little; a small quantity; a measured simply.
Modifiability (n.) Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.
Modifiable (a.) Capable of being modified; liable to modification.
Modificable (a.) Modifiable.
Modificate (v. t.) To qualify.
Modification (n.) The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light.
Modificative (n.) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
Modificatory (a.) Tending or serving to modify; modifying.
Modifier (n.) One who, or that which, modifies.
Modified (imp. & p. p.) of Modify
Modifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Modify
Modify (v. t.) To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract.
Modify (v. t.) To limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower.
Modillion (n.) The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.