modusn.

OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 124 modvs ys gemet.., and ðæra synd fif... indicativvs ys gebicniendlic:..ðis modvs ys fulfremed on eallum tidum and on eallum hadum and ys forði fyrmest.

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 137 Modus is a moderation, whereby a charge or burthen is imposed, in respecte of a commoditie... The meane or moderation is knowen by this worde (that) as I make A. B. my executor or giue him a hundred pound, that he maie erect a monument.

1850 A. M. Burrill New Law Dict. Modus,..in old conveyancing. A consideration; the consideration of a conveyance, technically expressed by the word ut.

1988 D. Johnston Roman Law Trusts vii. 248 There are several texts of Scaevola which seem to anticipate the interpretation of a pecuniary modus as a trust.

1618 J. Selden Hist. Tithes x. 288 Where any..Prescription or Custome hath setled a Modus Decimandi or certain quantitie payable, though never so little, for the Tithe.

1675 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 2) vii. 99 It is to be wished that there were some more certain Modus in lieu of that troublesome way of Tything.

1683 Canidia iii. xvi. 149 Against Tithes there's no Prescription, But they may be cut off by Composition. 'Tis..a good Modus Decimandi.

1687 N. Johnston Assurance Abby & Church-lands 31 Also Modus of Tithes was another Infringement of the Canons.

1747 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 57/1 The ancient Modusses and compositions for tythes.

1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law II. 388 Of modus's, or exemptions from payment of tithes in kind.

1793 Hollym Inclos. Act 13 A modus of one shilling a score of all lambs lambed and living at Midsummer.

1843 R. Meeson & W. N. Welsby Rep. Cases Exchequer (1844) XI. 676 The plaintiff was..employed in maintaining and upholding the said moduses.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. vi. 137 The spiritual person who still took his tithe-pig or his modus.

1895 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable (rev. ed.) 1154/2 Smoke Silver, a modus of 6d. in lieu of tithe firewood.

1629 A. Richardson Logicians School-master 261 Now affirmatum and negatum, verum, [etc.]..are..words of Art, for indeed they belong to Logicke: but these when anything is brought as an example to them, it is nothing but an application of the species to the genus: now they call these modalls, because the modus is the genus, and the axiom is the axiom.

1773 E. Bentham Introd. Logick 45 The former is termed the dictum; the latter the modus... And in general, modal propositions are affirmative or negative, according as the modus is affirmed, or denied of the dictum.

1648 J. Evelyn Let. 1 June in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 23 Touching the reports of this day..as that Rochester was entered by stratagem, or Canterbury (for none of the relators agree either in the place or modus).

a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 239 What shall be the modus or manner of Trial?

1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. vii. 158 And this Superaddition of Value to our Commodities arises solely from that Modus wherein our Taxes are laid and raised.

1780 in I. Allen Nat. & Polit. Hist. Vermont (1798) 144 That either party should establish the modus, or rules to be pursued in determining disputes.

1847 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1843–7 4 259 The modus in which the electric charge passes along the wires.

1898 A. Lang Making Relig. viii. 143 Because..psychologists are unable to explain, or give the modus of a set of phenomena.

1988 Times 16 Jan. 13/1 Hot-air ballooning is a travel modus with a history but little past.

1675 J. Howe Living Temple ii. i, in Wks. (1724) I. 126 And if the Essence of Substance contains the inexisting Modi, the Essence of the Modi doth equally contain their inexistence in Substance.

a1680 T. Goodwin Disc. Christ Mediator ii. v, in Wks. (1692) III. 48 One and the same thing is differenced from it self by a different modus, or manner of existing.

a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1692) III. 9 The distinction of their personality (if abstractly considered from the essence) being but modus essendi.

?1705 Consideration Damnatory Clauses in Athanasian Creed ii. 9/1 When we consider the Divine Essence, there can be no distinction conceiv'd in it, but by different Modes of subsisting... We do not say that the Person is only a Modus, but that it is the Divine Nature subsisting under such a Modus.

1948 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 8 337 In Heidegger's philosophy the word ‘Nature’ already designates a ‘Seinsweise’, i.e., a modus existendi among other modi.

1963 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 9 51 The modus essendi is the thing itself with its various properties.

1994 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 54 565 Rather than say that a substance has a particular way or mode of being (modus se habendi, modus essendi), he [sc. Ockham] speaks of its being thus or so, somehow, alio et alio modo, aliquo modo.