moderate

1. a. Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained Source: opted

2. a. Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Source: opted

3. a. Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors. Source: opted

4. a. Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist. Source: opted

5. a. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter. Source: opted

6. a. Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed. Source: opted

7. 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. Source: opted

8. a. Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind. Source: opted

9. 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. Source: opted

10. 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. Source: opted

11. v. t. To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod. Source: opted

12. v. i. To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated. Source: opted

13. v. i. To preside as a moderator. Source: opted

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