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  1. 1. a. Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought. Source: opted
  3. 3. adj. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution Source: wordnet
  4. 4. adj. of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode Source: wordnet
  5. 5. adj. relating to or expressing the mood of a verb Source: wordnet
  6. 6. n. an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality Source: wordnet
  7. 7. 1. Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. Glanvill. 2. (Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought. Source: webster
  8. 8. Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceivingexistence, or of expressing thought. Source: adambom
  9. 9. j:88/n:12 s. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution a. of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode a. relating to or expressing the mood of a verb Source: ecdict

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