moderate

Meanings

Adjective

Noun

  • One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
  • One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.

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Origin

  • From Middle English moderat, from Latin moderātus, perfect active participle of moderor, from moder-, modes-, a stem appearing also in modestus, from modus; see mode and modest. moderato.

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