| 1. reasonable person, one who is not extreme in his opinions or views, conservative, temperate person. make temperate; reduce the intensity of, soften; appease, simplify; make less excessive; become temperate; become less severe; preside over a meeting or ceremony, mediate, act as moderator. mild; intermediate; avoiding extremes, temperate; within reasonable limits; of medium strength. moderatemoder*ate, n. (eccl. hist.) 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.moderate moder*ate , a. [l. moderatus, p. p. of moderate, moderati, to moderate, regulate, control, fr. modus measure. see: mode.] kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: (a) limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. (b) limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors. (c) not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate calvinist. a number of moderate members managed to obtain a majority in a thin house. (d) not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter. moderate showers. --walter. (e) limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed. (f) limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities. (g) limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.moderate moder*ate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. moderated ; p. pr. & vb. n. moderating.] |
