moodn.¹

Brit.

/muːd/, U.S.

/mud/

Forms: Old English–Middle English mod, Old English– mood, late Old English (rare)–early Middle English moð, Middle English modd, Middle English modde, Middle English mote (transmission error), Middle English moyde (northern), Middle English mud (northern), Middle English–1500s mode, Middle English–1500s mude (northern), Middle English–1600s moode, 1500s moud; Scottish pre-1700 meid (north-eastern), pre-1700 mode, pre-1700 moid, pre-1700 moyd, pre-1700 mud, pre-1700 muyd, pre-1700 mwde, pre-1700 mwide, pre-1700 1700s muid, pre-1700 1700s– mood, pre-1700 (1800s archaic) moode, pre-1700 1900s– mude, 1700s 1900s– meed (north-eastern), 1900s– mead (north-eastern), 1900s– mid, 1900s– mudd, 1900s– müde (Shetland).

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian mōd (neuter) disposition, feeling, mind, courage, will, intention (West Frisian moed courage, hope, zest for life), Old Dutch muod (Middle Dutch moet, muet, moed (masculine) passion, arrogance, courage, disposition, conviction, consent, mind, heart, Dutch moed (masculine) courage, conviction, heart, spirit, nerve), Old Saxon mōd (masculine) conviction, courage, mind, heart (Middle Low German mōt, moet, moyt, mout, muyt personality, disposition, arrogance, emotion, intellect, mind, conviction, agreement), Old High German muot, mōt, muat (masculine) soul, heart, disposition, sense, mind (Middle High German muot (masculine and neuter) faculty of thought, feeling, will, understanding, soul, spirit, disposition, emotion, arrogance, desire, conviction, hope, courage, German Mut courage, spirits), Old Icelandic móðr (masculine) anger, moodiness, grief, Norn (Shetland) meo wrath, Old Swedish moþ (neuter) emotion, disturbed emotion, anger, courage, arrogance (Swedish mod (neuter) courage, spirits, disposition), Old Danish mod courage, sense, convictions (Danish mod courage, heart), Gothic moþs spirit, anger; further etymology uncertain and disputed.

†1. Mind, thought, will. Also: heart, feeling. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > [noun]

hearteOE

moodeOE

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intention1340

mindc1384

intentc1386

ingeny1477

thinker1835

box1908

the mind > emotion > [noun]

ondeeOE

moodeOE

affection?c1225

affecta1398

feelinga1413

heart1557

stir1563

emotion1603

permotion1656

naturality1822

the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > mind, soul, spirit, heart > [noun]

wombeOE

moodeOE

heartOE

inner manc1000

soulOE

ghostOE

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consciencec1384

spiritc1384

minda1387

spirtc1415

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pneuma1559

esprite1591

internala1594

interior1600

entelechy1603

inside1615

psyche1648

sprit1653

citta1853

undersoul1868

Geist1871

heart-mind1959

eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxxi. 374 God onsende in ðara broðra mod, þæt heo woldan his ban geneoman & up ofer eorðan adon.

OE Ælfric Homily (Cambr. Ii.4.6) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 359 Bide þe nu hælu on þæs Hælendes naman, modes and lichaman.

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 123 Þe grimme dom of domesdei munneð ofte..i mode.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 11 Hit com him on mode..he wolde of Engle þa æðelæn tellen.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4489 Heo hauede enne leoue-mon..Þe leof hire weis on mode [c1300 heorte].

a1300 Woman of Samaria l. 22 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 84 (MED) If þu vnderstode Hwo hit is þat drynke byd, þu woldest beon of oþer mode.

c1300 St. Lucy (Laud) 85 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 103 (MED) Nov ich wot..ȝware-to þou tornest þi mod.

a1325 St. Juliana (Corpus Cambr.) 103 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 65 (MED) We nabbeþ poer noman to bringe in sunne aȝen mode.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 2310 (MED) If thou wolt take into thi mod Reson, [etc.].

?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 453 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 72 By Machomyth so myghty, þat meuyth in my mode!

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 515 Ffor to mele with þat maidyn & hir mode here.

†2.

a. Fierce courage; spirit, vigour. Also: pride, arrogance. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > spirited pride > [noun]

moodOE

feerness1475

spleen1599

fierté1673

the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > keenness > [noun]

moodOE

keenshipa1225

ferteec1380

feerness1475

OE Beowulf 1167 He hæfde mod micel.

OE Genesis A (1931) 29 Him þær sar gelamp, æfst and oferhygd, and þæs engles mod þe þone unræd ongan ærest fremman.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12714 Cniht he wes wunder god. & he hafde swiðe muchel mod.

c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 1123 (MED) Þo was otuwel fol of mood, & fauȝt as he were wood.

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 401 Maysterful mod and hyȝe pryde.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xix. 622 The erll, that wes of mekill mude.

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cv^v Thai mellit on with malice thay myghtyis in mude.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 32 The marynalis began to heis vp the sail, cryand,..mair mude, mair mude.

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xiii. 738 Not waighing in their glorious moodes, how farre the daunger exceeded the attempt.]

b. Anger, wrath. to pick (also peck) mood: to take offence, become angry. Obsolete.In later quots. apparently echoing Shakespeare (see quot. a1616).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > [noun]

irrec825

gramec1000

brathc1175

wrathc1175

mooda1225

ortha1225

felonyc1290

irea1300

greme13..

thro1303

wrathhead1303

errorc1320

angera1325

gremth1340

iroura1380

brethc1380

couragec1386

heavinessc1386

felona1400

follya1400

wrathnessc1440

choler1530

blast1535

malice1538

excandescency1604

stomachosity1656

bad blood1664

corruption1799

needle1874

irateness1961

the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > be or become resentful [verb (intransitive)]

to pick (also peck) mooda1225

disdaina1382

endeigna1382

indeign1382

risec1390

to take offencea1393

to take pepper in the nose1520

stomach1557

offenda1578

sdeigna1593

huff1598

to snuff pepper1624

check1635

to bear, owe (a person) a grudge1657

to take check1663

to take (‥) umbrage1683

to ride rusty1709

to flame out, up1753

to take a niff1777

niff1841

spleen1885

to put one's shoulder out1886

to have (or get) the spike1890

derry1896

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's mind [phrase]

to pick (also peck) mooda1225

to turn, wend the luff?c1225

to sing another song or a different tune1390

to waive (one's) wit1390

to change one's minda1500

to change (turn, alter) one's copy1523

to turn (one's) tippet1546

to change one's note1560

to shift hands1611

to face about1645

to change (swap) horses in midstream (while crossing a stream)1864

to sing another tune1890

a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 67 (MED) For-ȝif þi wreððe and þi mod.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 8792 Þat mines æmes muchele mod swa milde is iwurðen.

c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1838 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 159 (MED) Heo bi-leueden al heore grete mod and heore þretningue.

c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) 129 (MED) Sche gan to pekke mod.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 3635 (MED) His herte wax angry & ful of mod.

c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1760 At the last aslaked was his mood.

a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) 345 (MED) Fadyr..y stode afore þy syȝt, To speke for hem..To turne a waye from hem..þy mode.

a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 4347 (MED) Or þei twynned þens, þei pekkid moode.

1513 J. Skelton Against Scottes 21 Who so therat pyketh mood, The tokens are not good To be true Englysh blood.

a1547 J. Redford Moral Play Wit & Sci. (1848) 101 Lord let thy mercye fall, And mytygate thy moode.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. x. 9 Mood without might is vain and bootlesse [L. vanam sine viribus iram esse].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. i. 49 Who, in my moode, I stab'd vnto the heart.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiv. 275 And now my father in his mood may slay this poor bondsman.

1856 Ld. Tennyson Maud (rev. ed.) i. xiv, in Maud & Other Poems (new ed.) 8 What! am I raging alone as my father raged in his mood?

c. Passionate grief. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun] > great sorrow or grief

moodc1300

wonder1303

pregravation1623

c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 1405 (MED) Rymenhild was ful of mode; He wep teres of blode.

c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 1549 (MED) Sorweful man he was þerfore; Neyȝe his hert brast for mode.

a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 1259 She wept, she sobbed, for grete moode.

a1500 Sir Orfeo (Harl.) (1966) 93 (MED) Euer sche cryed with grete mode.

a. A prevailing but temporary state of mind or feeling; a person's humour, temper, or disposition at a particular time (later also applied to a crowd of people or other collective body). Also in extended use.In early use not always distinguishable from sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun]

heartOE

erda1000

moodOE

i-mindOE

i-cundeOE

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lundc1175

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kinda1225

custc1275

couragec1300

the manner ofc1300

qualityc1300

talentc1330

attemperancec1374

complexionc1386

dispositiona1387

propertyc1390

naturea1393

assay1393

inclinationa1398

gentlenessa1400

proprietya1400

habitudec1400

makingc1400

conditionc1405

habitc1405

conceitc1425

affecta1460

ingeny1477

engine1488

stomach?1510

mind?a1513

ingine1533

affection1534

vein1536

humour?1563

natural1564

facultyc1565

concept1566

frame1567

temperature1583

geniusa1586

bent1587

constitution1589

composition1597

character1600

tune1600

qualification1602

infusion1604

spirits1604

dispose1609

selfness1611

disposure1613

composurea1616

racea1616

tempera1616

crasisc1616

directiona1639

grain1641

turn1647

complexure1648

genie1653

make1674

personality1710

tonea1751

bearing1795

liver1800

make-up1821

temperament1821

naturalness1850

selfhood1854

Wesen1854

naturel1856

sit1857

fibre1864

character structure1873

mentality1895

mindset1909

psyche1910

where it's (he's, she's) at1967

the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > temporary state of mind, mood > [noun]

moodOE

affection?c1225

affecta1398

statec1450

humour1525

vein1577

frame1579

temperality1600

tempera1628

à la mode1654

disposition1726

spite1735

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > state of feeling or mood > [noun]

moodOE

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affecta1398

statec1450

mindc1460

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spiritc1480

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OE Beowulf 50 Him wæs geomor sefa, murnende mod.

OE Blickling Homilies 7 Bliþe mode heo sang on þæm cantice.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8945 Witt hafenn sohht te wide whar..Wiþþ serrhfull herrte. & sariȝ mod.

c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 8 (MED) An asþer aȝen oþer sval & let þat wole mod ut al.

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1703 (MED) Þo was ubbe bliþe of mod, Þat he saw him so fayr and hende.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3577 So wurð he wroð, o mode sarp.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 7701 Dauid. þat was mild o mode.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 8 Tho spack Grymbart the dasse..wyth an angry moed.

c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. xv. 60 Whyle the princes and potentates paws'd in this good mode.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C2^v With pittie calmd, downe fell his angry mood.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 260 Fortune is merry, And in this mood will giue vs any thing.

1638 R. Baillie Let. 27 Feb. (1841) I. 37 Thir reasones make the multitude in a high moode to flock to the Counsell-house.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 382 But like mules they [sc. sheep] are humoursome, and one must..expect their good mood before they will travail.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Luke ii. 38 Nature will have her good Moods, but Grace is steady.

1776 G. White Jrnl. 27 Oct. (1970) ix. 130 Larks frolick much in the air: when they are in that mood the larkers catch them in nets.

1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 8 The self-dubbed Doctor retired in an angry mood.

1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. ii. 68 There was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of the popular mind.

1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. ii. 58 Men talked about..the moods of Nature, the religion of Nature.

1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. iii. i. 459 He had been in a bad mood all morning and now he was obviously very angry indeed.

1996 India Today 30 June 90/1 Given the present mood of the courts, it is highly unlikely that the former prime minister can be given a clean chit without a thorough probe.

b. An unaccountable fit of gloom or bad temper; a temporarily angry, irritable, or depressed state of mind. Originally in plural, esp. in †to be in one's moods.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of

gloominga1400

dumpa1535

mubble fubbles1589

mulligrubs1599

mumps1599

mood1609

blues1741

mopes1742

gloom1744

humdrums1757

dismals1764

horror1768

mournfuls1794

doldrum1811

doleful1822

glumps1825

jim-jams1896

katzenjammer1897

the sniffles1903

mopery1907

joes1916

woofits1918

cafard1924

jimmies1928

the blahs1969

downer1970

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > fit of

gloominga1400

terret1515

momurdotesc1540

the sullens1580

pirr1581

pet1590

snuff1592

mulligrubs1599

mumps1599

geea1605

mood1609

miff1623

tetch1623

frumps1671

strunt1721

hump1727

tiff1727

tift1751

huff1757

tig1773

tout1787

sulk1792

twita1825

fantigue1825

fuff1834

grumps1844

spell1856

the grumbles1861

grouch1895

snit1939

mardy1968

moody1969

strop1970

sull1972

cream puff1985

mard1998

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xciii. sig. F4 The falce hearts history Is writ in moods and frounes and wrinckles strange.

1703 W. Burnaby Love Betray'd i. 7 What my Cousen in her moods? My Lord, don't mind her.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 188 Then turn'd Sir Torre, and being in his moods Left them.

1863 ‘Holme Lee’ Annis Warleigh II. 307 When first he asked me to marry him did I not say ‘No’..? Have I not told him since I should be dead with moods in a month?

1934 Mod. Psychol. June 29/1 The remainder of the crew would be a harmless lot, unless, of course, they got a ‘mood’, in which case they would..become quite vicious.

1958 J. Kesson White Bird Passes iii. 39 Her Mother was in a mood.

1981 G. Swift Shuttlecock iii. 26 Whenever I am in one of my moods, Marian talks to her plants.

1994 A. L. Kennedy Now that you're Back 236 He was going to have a mood if he wasn't careful, he could feel one on the way.

c. The pervading atmosphere or tone of a particular place, event, or period; that quality of a work of art or literature which evokes or recalls a certain emotion or state of mind.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [noun] > that which causes emotion > one who or that which stirs the emotions > atmosphere or tone causing emotion

ambient1892

mood1902

1902 Edinb. Rev. July 39 Campbell's ‘Soldier's Dream’ is the most beautiful rendering in English verse of the war-weary mood.

1906 G. B. Shaw in A. L. Coburn Alvin Langdon Coburn (1966) iii. 36 In landscape he shows the same power... His impulse is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information.

1919 E. O'Neill Moon of Caribbees 32 Brooding music, faint and far-off, like the mood of the moonlight made audible.

1976 Outdoor Living (N. Z.) 1 ii. 43/3 (advt.) You can choose a fence that enhances the general mood of your home.

1990 Artist's & Illustrator's Mag. May 25 (caption) The sky, which always determines the mood of the landscape is registered using blue green,..yellow gold and grey.

Phrases

†P1. with (also in) mood and main [compare Old Saxon mōd endi megincraft] : fervently, in earnest. Also with main and mood, in mood and might. Cf. main n.¹ Phrases 1, might n.¹ Phrases 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy

with (also in) mood and maineOE

vigour13..

with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330

with (one's) forcec1380

like anything1665

hammer and tongs1708

like stour1787

(in) double tides1788

like blazes1818

like winking1827

with a will1827

like winky1830

like all possessed1833

in a big way1840

like (or worse than) sin1840

full swing1843

like a Trojan1846

like one o'clock1847

like sixty1848

like forty1852

like wildfire1857

like old boots1865

like blue murder1867

like steam1905

like stink1929

like one thing1938

like a demon1945

up a storm1953

eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) i. xii. 54 Ða ongunnon heo sticcemælum mod & mægen monian.

OE Blickling Homilies 97 Forðon we sceolan mid ealle mod & mægene to Gode gecyrran.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2624 (MED) Þou sal hir serue wit mode [a1400 Gött. mith] and mayn.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 23584 (MED) To worshepe god atte ham has diȝt, Þai graiþ ham baþ in mode & miȝt.

a1425 (c1333–52) L. Minot Poems (1914) 20 (MED) God..Strenkith him main & mode, His reght in France to win.

?a1425 (?c1350) Northern Passion (Rawl.) 1167 (MED) Þat ilk place with mayn and mode Þe Iewes gert call þe feld of blode.

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 555 (MED) Þai þat loues god with mayne and mode, All thing turnes þaim to gode.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 199 With moyde and mayn.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 58 Allace, now mingis my mane and mude.

P2.

†a. With verbs used alliteratively, as to mar (also amar, amend, mese, ming, etc.) one's mood, marred (also minged, etc.) in one's mood. Also to mourn in mood, to mean one's mood (see mean v.²), to mean oneself of one's mood. Obsolete.to mend one's mood: see mend v. 7a.

ΚΠ

eOE Metres of Boethius (transcript of damaged MS) viii. 44 Ðeos gitsunc hafað gumena gehwelces mod amerred.

OE Cynewulf Juliana 412 Acyrred cuðlice from Cristes æ, mod gemyrred me to gewealde in synna seað.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 608 (MED) Nes þis meiden nawiht herfore imenget in hire mod inwið.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 3407 His mod him gon mengen; he morȝnede swiðe.

c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) 123 Hit is a derne mourni[n]g in mod.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2259 (MED) Sua he mengud þam þair mode þat naman oþer vndirstode.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 3059 Quils sco hir mened of hir mode Comfort had sco son ful gode.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 764 Wylt þou mese þy mode and menddyng abyde?

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. 263 (MED) Why meuestow þi mode for a mote in þi brotheres eye.

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 3454 (MED) Mane, amende thy mode, or thow myshappen.

a1450 York Plays (1885) 179 (MED) He has fastid, þat marris his mode, Ther fourty dayes with-owten foode.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 1099 Als Inglismen sair murnyt in thar mude.

?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Bij Meuyd all in moode.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. ii. 13 Witht sceptour in hand thair muyd to meis and still.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Giiii He may mende your mode.

a1586 King Hart l. 170 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 260 Out of mesour marrit in thair mude.

b. to change (also †turn) one's mood: to alter one's state of mind or feeling; to feel or behave differently; also one's mood changes.Cf. to change one's mind at mind n.¹ 12.

ΚΠ

?a1300 Dame Sirith 109 in G. H. McKnight Middle Eng. Humorous Tales (1913) 6 Dame, dame, torn þi mod.

a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) 102 (MED) Ychaunged was al his mod.

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 3222 Bot be ane aftyre mydnyghte all his mode changede.

c1480 (a1400) St. Katherine 485 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 456 The emprioure þan changit his mud.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. v. sig. Q6 Therewith she gan at first to change her mood, As one adaw'd, and halfe confused stood.

1605 B. Jonson Sejanus i. sig. B^v Be hot, and cold with him; change eury moode, Habit, and garbe, as often as he varies.

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i. 6 Dear Roger, when your Jo puts on her Gloom, Do ye sae too, and never fash your Thumb. Seem to forsake her, soon she'll change her Mood.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiv. 170 His mood was entirely changed.

1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 218 When he tired of ground-going..he would follow a tree-road till his mood changed.

1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xvi. 140 Then he changed his mood. He asked if he might speak as an old friend.

1954 P. Frankau Wreath for Enemy iii. iii. 181 Our mood had changed; we were frivolous and giggly.

1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) x. 261 Marty Robinson mugged for a TV camera crew that day in Central Park, then changed his mood, stared defiantly into the camera, and said [etc.].

P3. to be in the (also a) mood: to feel disposed or inclined for or to do something (formerly also †of doing something). Similarly in no mood. in the (also a) —— mood: enthusiastic for or disposed to enjoy the thing specified.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > [adjective]

disposedc1340

willed1417

affecta1425

willinga1425

affectionatec1487

mindedc1487

talenteda1500

well-minded1524

affectioned?1532

affectionated1561

mindful1565

aminded1571

ingineda1583

affected1584

pregnant1604

in the (also a) —— mooda1625

fond1666

apt1677

a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine v. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ii3^v/1 You'r pleasant, but Fabrito know I am not in the mood [printed wood] of Suffering jest.

1639 J. Mayne Citye Match iii. ii. 27 He is not in the mood now.

1733 in M. Masters Poems Several Occasions 209 While Husband in the cooing mood Gives you a Buss, nor cares who sees it.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 146 I made half a dozen different beginnings, and could no way please myself. In short, I was in no mood to write.

1786 T. Jefferson Let. 12 Oct. in Papers (1954) X. 452 I did not interrupt them sooner because I was in a mood for hearing sermons.

1798 M. Wollstonecraft Maria ii She was in a talking mood, and proceeded to inform me how she had been used in the world.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. xxv. 393 But the Council was not in a mood for such reflections.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ix. 284 She was in no mood for sleep.

1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xlvii. 426 He saw what men were in the mood to do.

1937 V. Woolf Years 371 She had never felt less in the mood for a party.

1955 D. Eden Darling Clementine xvi. 159 Darling little boys do these things when they're in the mood.

1987 N. Hinton Buddy's Song xi. 61 His dad wasn't in the mood to listen.

Compounds

C1. Esp. in Psychology.

mood-altering adj.

ΚΠ

1968 Jrnl. Health & Social Behavior 9 156/2 A small number of hippie communes and settlements..where..the use of all mind and mood-altering drugs is disapproved of.

1994 Esquire Aug. 97/3 Researchers discovered the existence of mood-altering, naturally occurring brain substances known as opioid peptides.

mood-changing adj.

ΚΠ

1967 Public Opinion Q. 31 436 The purpose of this study was to obtain quantitative descriptions of how people obtain and use psychotropic (i.e. mood-changing) drugs.

1981 C. Bly Lett. from Country xxi. 116 People hunch over the samovar, counting on tea as a mood-changing drug to carry them.

mood-controlling adj.

ΚΠ

1988 K. Logan Paganism & Occult 157 Medical theorists suggest that these experiences are actually hallucinations caused by the brain's mood-controlling limbic system being starved of oxygen.

mood-elevating adj.

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1968 Current Therapeutic Res. 10 144 Pipradol hydrochloride has been reported to possess mood-elevating and stimulating properties without accompanying marked ANS stimulation.

1993 Psychol. Today July 70/2 The consequences of mood-elevating drugs that violate the principle of conservation of mood—that break the rule of ‘what goes up must come down’.

C2.

mood board n. a collage of images intended to evoke or project a particular style or image, esp. in marketing a product.

ΚΠ

1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Home section) 1 I work in my head, then do thumbnail sketches... Then I do a ‘mood board’. I'll use fabric swatches, pull pictures..out of publications, [etc.].

1990 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Apr. 19 To get the right feel for the product, there were ‘mood boards’, collages of appropriate images culled from glossy magazines.

1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 203 The funky logo was a vibrant expression of Bones' lifestyle... He'd obviously used a mood board to create it.

mood brightener n. (a) something that raises the spirits, something cheering or enlivening; (b) a drug used to alleviate depression; an antidepressant; cf. mood elevator n.

ΚΠ

1948 N.Y. Times 23 Sept. 10 (advt.) Mood brighteners, these R & K dresses.

1959 N.Y. Times 18 July 23/3 Chas. Pfizer & Co...received a patent this week for Nialamide, a mood-brightener that the company regards as an important development in the field of mental drugs.

1994 W. F. Allman Stone Age Present (1995) iv. 106 It is this crucial role of sadness in our lives that has led some evolutionary psychologists to ask whether..so-called mood brighteners such as Valium and Prozac are really all that good for us.

2011 Independent on Sat. (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 11 June (E1 ed.) 13 The first single, Jirey, is an instant mood-brightener and already a firm favourite among the group's fans.

mood control drug n. = mood drug n.

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1986 Sun 17 June 2/3 He was treated last week by a doctor specialising in mood-control drugs.

1989 Chicago Tribune 5 Apr. 25 Food is probably the most common mood control drug.

mood disorder n. a psychological disorder chiefly characterized by the elevation or depression of a person's mood; an affective disorder.

ΚΠ

1981 G. Winokur Depression p. vii There is a large body of data about the mood disorders.

1999 N.Y. Times 7 Feb. iv. 3/1 As mental health experts learn more about mood disorders, it is becoming clear that depression and manic-depression..are a significant cause of homelessness.

mood drug n. colloquial a psychotropic drug; also in extended use.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [noun] > psychotropic or psychedelic drug

psychedelic1956

psychodysleptic1957

psychotogen1957

psychotomimetic1957

psychochemical1958

psychopharmaceutical1962

psychoactive1965

psychotropic1966

psychomimetic1967

mood drug1970

1970 Time 10 Aug. 44/2 There is some opposition to the use of mood drugs for children.

1996 C. J. Stone Fierce Dancing i. 15 Ecstasy is a mood drug. When you're happy and in love it makes you more happy, more in love.

mood elevation n. the lifting of a person's mood, esp. as effected by drugs.

ΚΠ

1961 Science 13 Jan. 105/1 Tryptophan administration was accompanied by mild to marked changes characterized primarily by mood elevation.., and more active deep tendon reflexes.

1983 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 302 156 It is infeasible to ask subjects to causally ascribe their mood elevation to an affectively incongruous event (e.g. to feel euphoric over a child's grief).

mood elevator n. a drug which improves a person's mood, spec. an antidepressant; also in extended use.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [noun] > antidepressant

psychic energizer1957

thymoleptic1959

psychostimulant1961

mood elevator1968

SSRI1991

1968 Science 27 Dec. 1446/2 Another group of investigators, using a monoamine oxidase inhibitor..to retard the degradation of the hypothetical mood elevator, norepinephrine, [etc.].

1977 Addictive Dis. 3 283 Mood elevators, or anti depressants, are urged upon the aging patient.

1995 Guardian 18 Feb. (Weekend Suppl.) 8/1 A welcome act of flirtation can act as a mood elevator, enhancing the recipient's well-being.

mood lighting n. (originally) stage lighting intended to suggest, evoke, or induce a particular atmosphere or frame of mind; (later also more generally) lighting of any kind intended to induce a particular mood, esp. one of relaxation or receptivity.

ΚΠ

1921 Theatre Arts Mag. Apr. 121 The most mooted point of discussion aroused by the Medea was that of its lighting—‘mood-lighting’... Such lighting..has always been representative in character; used here orchestrally, abstractly, non-realistically, it was something of a novelty.

1941 Barron's 8 Sept. 20/1 Dr. Hibben expects the home of tomorrow to have..systems of changeable color lights for mood lighting in living rooms, say, to produce a cool green color during summer.

1960 Amer. Cinematographer May 300/2 There was no opportunity for the mood lighting or unusual camera angles that cinematographers so dearly love to sink their professional teeth into.

2010 K. Barry in New Yorker 1 Feb. 64/1 I turned off the harsh strip lighting overhead and switched to the mood lighting, which moved in lovely, dreamy disco swirls.

mood music n. music intended to induce a particular mood, esp. one of relaxation or receptivity.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > other general types

country music1585

water musicc1660

concert music1776

eye music1812

ballet music1813

night music1832

absolute music1856

Tafelmusik1880

Ars Antiqua1886

Ars Nova1886

early music1886

tone poetry1890

mood music1922

Gebrauchsmusik1930

shake music1935

modernistic1938

industrial1942

spasm music1943

musica reservata1944

protest music1949

night music1950

palm court music1958

title music1960

bottleneck guitar1961

rinky-tink1962

Schrammel-musik1967

sweet music1967

chutney1968

roots music1969

electronica1980

multiphonics1983

chutney soca1987

chiptune1992

1922 Observer 19 Feb. 7/4 Mr. Mitchell..played the fourth Sonata, together with several of the shorter pieces of this early transitional period—‘Fragilité’, ‘Irato’, and ‘Ironies’—that show Scriabin's power of making mood-music.

1940 A. Oboler Fourteen Radio Plays 257 Mood music, music as background to plant mood of scene.

1955 D. Keene Who has Wilma Lathrop? ii. 19 ‘Would you prefer mood music?’.. Wilma stacked the spindle with records.

1998 S. Reynolds Energy Flash iii. 81 Graham Massey was a big fan of Martin Denny, whose tiki music (quasi-Polynesian mood-music for suburban cocktail parties) often featured tropical bird-calls.

mood ring n. a ring set with a stone containing heat-sensitive crystals which change colour according to body temperature, supposed in this way to reflect the wearer's mood.

ΚΠ

1975 New Scientist 30 Oct. 298/2 The Mood Ring—a finger ornament which changes colour with the wearer's emotions.

1995 Denver Post 16 Jan. e3/1 The younger baby boomers, whose cultural touchstones included disco, divorce, mood rings and ‘The Brady Bunch’.

mood swing n. an abrupt change of mood without apparent cause, esp. as a symptom of certain mental disorders; also in extended use.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > instability or unbalance > mood swing associated with

mood swing1916

1916 Southern Med. Jrnl. 9 496/1 The exact type of psychosis does not always bear a specific relation to the etiological factor, but rather may be an exaggeration of a more or less common mood swing.

1965 J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatm. i. 5 Manic-depressive type... Commoner among those with a family history of mood swings or similar illness.

2011 Esquire Mar. 144/2 Even short-term use [of steroids] can cause mood swings and aggression.

C3. attributive. Designating something, esp. a work of art, which suggests, evokes, or recalls a particular atmosphere or frame of mind. Cf. mood music n. at Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1898 G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite 124 Beethoven had shown how those inarticulate mood-poems which surge through men who have..no exceptional command of words, can be written down in music as symphonies.

1927 Observer 14 Aug. 8 On the last side of 86 is Joseph Speaight's expressive little mood-picture for quartet, ‘The Lonely Shepherd’.

1962 Listener 27 Dec. 1102/2 They seem to me to be mood-poetry in a pejorative sense.

1970 Daily Tel. 20 May 16/8 It says much for Mr Wesker's delicate mood-piece that it nevertheless made an effect.

1989 R. MacNeil Wordstruck i. 29 Did I get my taste for melodrama, for satire, for atmospheric mood-writing from Dickens, too?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

moodn.²

Brit.

/muːd/, U.S.

/mud/

Forms: late Middle English moodd, late Middle English–1600s moode, late Middle English– mood; also Scottish pre-1700 mud, pre-1700 mude, pre-1700 muid, pre-1700 mwde.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mode n.

Etymology: Originally a variant of mode n., perhaps reinforced by association with mood n.¹The Middle English forms in -oo- given here could alternatively be analysed as showing mode n.

1. Grammar.

a. A form or set of forms of a verb in an inflected language, serving to indicate whether the verb expresses fact, command, wish, conditionality, etc.; the quality of a verb as represented or distinguished by a particular mood. Cf. aspect n. 9b, tense n. 2a.The principal moods are known as indicative (expressing fact), imperative (command), interrogative (question), optative (wish), and subjunctive (conditionality).

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > mood > [noun]

modusOE

modec1450

moodc1450

c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 38 A verbe..is declined wyth moode and tyme w^toute case.

c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 26 Þis lytel wurd ‘to’ beforn a verbe is syne of infenityf mood.

1574 A. Golding in J. Baret Aluearie To Rdr. sig. **.i How shall men directly fynde The Coniugation, Nomber, Person, Tence, And Moode of Verbes togither in their kynde?

1669 J. Milton Accedence 17 There be four Moods, which express the manner of doing; the Indicative, the Imperative, the Potential or Subjunctive, and the Infinitive.

1751 J. Harris Hermes i. viii. 140 Hence..the variety of Modes or Moods.

1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. 39 Mood is a particular form of the verb, shewing the manner in which the being, action, or passion is represented.

1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 69 A mere grammatical metamorphosis from mood to mood.

1904 J. London Sea-wolf xxxvii. 345 No more would he conjugate the verb ‘to do’ in every mood and tense. ‘To be’ was all that remained to him.

1962 J. L. Austin et al. How to do Things with Words i. 1 The few and jejune grammatical marks available, such as word order, mood, and the like.

1995 Focus Aug. 44/2 In Kivunjo, a small Bantu language in East Africa, each verb has seven prefixes and suffixes, two moods, 14 tenses, [etc.].

b. Used punningly with reference to mood n.¹ 3a.

ΚΠ

a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 51 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) All your fortunes we can tell yee..: In the Moods too, and the Tenses, That may fit your fine five sences.

1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 14 This Baggage once in her mad Moods and Tenses Had Lombard read, the Master o' th' Sentences.

1784 J. O'Keeffe Agreeable Surprise (new ed.) ii. ii. 24 She's in the imperative mood. O damnatus, obstinatus mulier!

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. iv. 79 You are, of course, jealous, in all the tenses and moods of that amicable passion.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 13/1 The things that were momentous to FitzGerald were the moods and tenses of himself, of nature, and his friends.

2. Logic.

a. Any of the valid forms into which each of the four figures (figure n. 23) of categorical syllogism is subdivided according to the several ways in which syllogisms differ in the quality (affirmative or negative) and quantity (universal or particular) of their constituent propositions. Cf. mode n. 3a.Aristotle defined the concept of mood in this sense in his Prior Analytics, without giving it a technical name. Mood (ancient Greek τρόπος) first appears as a technical term in logic in the writings of the Stoics (1st cent. b.c.–1st cent. a.d.), which only survive in fragments. Classical Latin modus, the normal translation in other senses of ancient Greek τρόπος, was used in its logical sense by the schoolmen from Abelard (1079–1142) onwards.The moods have mnemonic names derived from a set of hexameters sometimes ascribed to an English schoolman, William Shyreswood or Shirwood (fl. 1245–67), but they are chiefly known from their inclusion, c1250, in the Summulae Logicales of Petrus Hispanus (c1215–77). The names of the fourth figure are a post-Renaissance addition.In all of these names (see Barbara n., Celarent n., etc.), the three vowels represent the quality and quantity of the three propositions: A = universal affirmative, E = universal negative, I = particular affirmative, O = particular negative. (Some of the consonants also have significant functions relating to the reduction of syllogisms of the second, third, and fourth figures to syllogisms of the first figure.) The number of traditionally recognized valid moods is 19, viz. four in the first figure, four in the second, six in the third, and five in the fourth.A different, and probably historically older, sense of the word occurs in some writers alongside the sense above explained. In this sense the mood of a syllogism is the type of structure to which it belongs in respect of quality and quantity alone, without regard to the figure; so that, e.g., Celarent in the first figure and Cesare in the second would be not two moods but two varieties of the same mood. (See, for instance, quot. 1906.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [noun] > mood or mode

mode1532

mood1569

trope1656

1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. vii. f. 21^v A Syllogisme..which ought to be in one of the .xix. Moodes.

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome sig. Eiv^v The moode answereth unto Celarent, elder daughter to Barbara.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iii. §29. 142 In what mood or figure, would this conclusion follow out of these Premises?

1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic xvi. 136 We call each of these triplets of propositions a mood or form of the syllogism.

1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 88 The above rule, which, where both premisses are affirmative, requires one to be universal, prescribes a particular affirmative conclusion, and admits the moods Darapti, Datisi, and Disamis.

1906 H. W. B. Joseph Introd. Logic xii. 240 The difference of mood depends on the quantity and quality of the propositions composing the syllogism. This may be the same in different figures, or different in the same figure... The different moods have received distinct names in the various figures wherein they occur; and hence what are called the ‘mood-names’..indicate both figure and mood.

1974 Sci. Amer. Jan. 110/2 The major premise, the minor premise and the conclusion of a syllogism can each be of four different forms, giving 64 possible moods.

1989 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 265/2 Indirect reduction can be used not only for Baroco and Bocardo but for all moods of the second and third figures.

†b. mood and figure n. due logical form (cf. quots. 1699, 1723 at mode n. 3a). Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [adverb] > in due logical form

mood and figure1589

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. Bbj Tis neither in moode nor figure.

1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 86 For let it fare as it may in Topickes, in Analytickes it must fast: it can not away with moode and figure.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 111 O what a midnight Curse has he, whose side Is pester'd with a Mood and Figure Bride! [Note 124] A Mood and Figure-Bride. A Woman who has learn'd Logick.

1702 G. Farquhar Disc. upon Comedy 132 Homer is proved a Poet by Mood and Figure.

3. Music.

a. In late medieval music: the ratio of the duration of a large to a long, or a long to a breve, in the rhythm of a piece (cf. mode n. 1b). Also (occasionally): any of a set of ternary rhythmic patterns (see mode n. 1d). Now historical.The great mood determined the relation of the large to the long (see large adj. 4, long n.¹ 2a), the lesser mood that of the long to the breve. Each of these was called perfect when the greater note was equal to three of the smaller, imperfect when it was equal to two. Cf. prolation n. 2, time n. 26b.In quot. c1570 the precise meaning is ambiguous; perhaps an example of sense 3c.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun]

proportiona1387

measurea1525

mode1561

casure1565

moodc1570

rhythm1576

rhyme1586

stotc1590

dimension1597

sextupla1597

timing1597

rhythmus1603

cadence1605

time1609

cadency1628

movement1683

lilt1841

metre1873

tempus1889

riddim1943

c1570 Art of Music (BL Add. 4911) f. 5, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mud(e Of divisione of mud,..mud maior, quhilk is in larggis and longgis, and mud minor, quhilk is longis and brewis, and ewerie ane of them in perfyt and inperfect is dewydit.

1572 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes (rev. ed.) Short Introd. sig. Avii^v To set out a full and absolute knowledge of the nature of the Scale..: what moodes there are, & how many: what is perfection, what imperfection: [etc.].

1588 W. Byrd Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs Tenor. sig. Aij^v In some of the songs the Moode is mistaken: wherefore where you see this Moode..being the Perfect of the lesse: sing after this Moode being the Imperfect of the more.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke i. 12 Ma. Degrees of musicke they made three, Moode: Time and Prolation. Phi. What did they tearme a Moode? Ma. The dew measuring of Longes and Larges, and was either greater or lesser.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Music, Annot. ⁋4 b If a plainsong consisted al of Longes, it was called the first mood: if of a Long & a Briefe successiuely, it was called the second mood, &c.

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 42 A Moode..is the measure of Longs in Larges, or of Breefes in Longs.

1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 2 In regard the Notes now in vse are not of so long a quantity, as when the Perfect Moodes were vsed.

1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) v. sig. K3^v Now and then shee beginneth in duple time some two or three Semibriefes, but alwaies endeth with Minims of the triple Moode.

1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 183 As all Discant moves in some particular Measure, Mode, or Mood, he [sc. Franco] first defines a Mood... ‘A Mood is the representation of the time of measured sounds, expressed by Longs or Breves.’

1978 R. Hoppin Medieval Mus. xv. 355 The mood is perfect if the long equals three breves, imperfect if it equals two.

†b. A written symbol used to indicate such a mood. Obsolete. rare.retorted mood: see retorted adj.¹ 2.

ΚΠ

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke sig. *2 In all Moodes (or rather signes) of the more prolation, he setteth a minime for a whole stroke.

†c. = mode n. 1c (in the various applications discussed there). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > ancient Greek modes

modec1400

mood1597

measure1625

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > key > major or minor keys

mode1721

mood1788

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶4^v By the name of Mood were signified many thinges in Musicke. First those which the learned call moodes, which afterward were tearmed by the name of tunes.

1667 C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Musick 112 That which the Grecians called Mode or Mood, the Latins termed Tone or Tune.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 550 Anon they move In perfect Phalanx to the Dorian mood Of Flutes and soft Recorders.

1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 138 The several Moods (some call'd them Tones) of Music.

1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick iii. 57 Their [sc. the Greeks'] Seven Moods,..were no more than the Seven different Methods of altering their Tunes, by Flats and Sharps placed at the Beginning of a Lesson.

1788 T. Cavallo in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 252 The best keys to be played in are the keys of C, of F, of E flat, of B flat, of G and of D in the major mood, and the keys of C, of D, of A, and of B, in the minor mood.

1844 C. Beck & C. C. Felton tr. E. Munk Metres Greeks & Romans 59 Poems of the Doric mood.

†d. In extended use recalling mood n.¹ Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 328 And now my death Changes the mood, for what in me was purchast, Fals vpon thee in a more fairer sort.

1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 22 in Justa Edouardo King That strain I heard was of a higher mood.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 662 But to th' afflicted in his pangs thir sound..seems a tune, Harsh, and of dissonant mood from his complaint.

†4. = mode n. 9a. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion

gentryc1400

the fashion1569

mainstream1599

the trim1603

mood1646

mode1649

vogue1649

beauty1653

à la mode1654

turn1695

the kick1699

goût1717

thing1734

taste1739

ton1769

nick1788

the tippy1790

twig1811

latest1814

dernier mot1834

ticket1838

kibosh1880

last cry1887

le (or the) dernier cri1896

flavour of the month (or week)1946

vague1962

1646 J. Shirley Prol. Rosania in Poems ii. 48 Others that have..fashionably observ'd the English Scene, Say, (but with lesse hope to be understood) Such titles unto Playes are now the mood.

†5. = mode n. 6. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute > of a substance

mood1666

mode1668

modus1675

1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 10 Whether these Accidents may not conveniently enough be call'd the Moods or primary affections of Bodies.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 1a).

ΚΠ

1928 H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng.: Pt. 1 (ed. 2) I. i. 31 Some of these verbs..are also used as modal auxiliaries, i.e. as substitutes for actually existing mood-forms.

1931 M. Callaway Temporal Subjunctive in Old Eng. 19 This theory is substantially identical with that advocated by Oskar Erdmann..and by Ernst Bernhardt.., hereafter referred to by me as the Erdmann-Bernhardt theory of mood-syntax.

1962 F. Behre Contrib. Eng. Syntax 59 Certain uses of the indicative that have not earlier been duly considered by writers on mood-syntax.

1965 F. Behre in Eng. Stud. 46 90 In both the Old English and Middle English examples the mood-form is indeterminate.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mood
释义	moodn.¹ Brit. /muːd/, U.S. /mud/ Forms: Old English–Middle English mod, Old English– mood, late Old English (rare)–early Middle English moð, Middle English modd, Middle English modde, Middle English mote (transmission error), Middle English moyde (northern), Middle English mud (northern), Middle English–1500s mode, Middle English–1500s mude (northern), Middle English–1600s moode, 1500s moud; Scottish pre-1700 meid (north-eastern), pre-1700 mode, pre-1700 moid, pre-1700 moyd, pre-1700 mud, pre-1700 muyd, pre-1700 mwde, pre-1700 mwide, pre-1700 1700s muid, pre-1700 1700s– mood, pre-1700 (1800s archaic) moode, pre-1700 1900s– mude, 1700s 1900s– meed (north-eastern), 1900s– mead (north-eastern), 1900s– mid, 1900s– mudd, 1900s– müde (Shetland). Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian mōd (neuter) disposition, feeling, mind, courage, will, intention (West Frisian moed courage, hope, zest for life), Old Dutch muod (Middle Dutch moet, muet, moed (masculine) passion, arrogance, courage, disposition, conviction, consent, mind, heart, Dutch moed (masculine) courage, conviction, heart, spirit, nerve), Old Saxon mōd (masculine) conviction, courage, mind, heart (Middle Low German mōt, moet, moyt, mout, muyt personality, disposition, arrogance, emotion, intellect, mind, conviction, agreement), Old High German muot, mōt, muat (masculine) soul, heart, disposition, sense, mind (Middle High German muot (masculine and neuter) faculty of thought, feeling, will, understanding, soul, spirit, disposition, emotion, arrogance, desire, conviction, hope, courage, German Mut courage, spirits), Old Icelandic móðr (masculine) anger, moodiness, grief, Norn (Shetland) meo wrath, Old Swedish moþ (neuter) emotion, disturbed emotion, anger, courage, arrogance (Swedish mod (neuter) courage, spirits, disposition), Old Danish mod courage, sense, convictions (Danish mod courage, heart), Gothic moþs spirit, anger; further etymology uncertain and disputed. †1. Mind, thought, will. Also: heart, feeling. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > [noun] hearteOE moodeOE wita1000 intention1340 mindc1384 intentc1386 ingeny1477 thinker1835 box1908 the mind > emotion > [noun] ondeeOE moodeOE affection?c1225 affecta1398 feelinga1413 heart1557 stir1563 emotion1603 permotion1656 naturality1822 the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > mind, soul, spirit, heart > [noun] wombeOE moodeOE heartOE inner manc1000 soulOE ghostOE sprite1340 inwit1382 consciencec1384 spiritc1384 minda1387 spirtc1415 esperite1477 inward man1526 pneuma1559 esprite1591 internala1594 interior1600 entelechy1603 inside1615 psyche1648 sprit1653 citta1853 undersoul1868 Geist1871 heart-mind1959 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxxi. 374 God onsende in ðara broðra mod, þæt heo woldan his ban geneoman & up ofer eorðan adon. OE Ælfric Homily (Cambr. Ii.4.6) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 359 Bide þe nu hælu on þæs Hælendes naman, modes and lichaman. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 123 Þe grimme dom of domesdei munneð ofte..i mode. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 11 Hit com him on mode..he wolde of Engle þa æðelæn tellen. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4489 Heo hauede enne leoue-mon..Þe leof hire weis on mode [c1300 heorte]. a1300 Woman of Samaria l. 22 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 84 (MED) If þu vnderstode Hwo hit is þat drynke byd, þu woldest beon of oþer mode. c1300 St. Lucy (Laud) 85 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 103 (MED) Nov ich wot..ȝware-to þou tornest þi mod. a1325 St. Juliana (Corpus Cambr.) 103 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 65 (MED) We nabbeþ poer noman to bringe in sunne aȝen mode. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 2310 (MED) If thou wolt take into thi mod Reson, [etc.]. ?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 453 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 72 By Machomyth so myghty, þat meuyth in my mode! c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 515 Ffor to mele with þat maidyn & hir mode here. †2. a. Fierce courage; spirit, vigour. Also: pride, arrogance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > spirited pride > [noun] moodOE feerness1475 spleen1599 fierté1673 the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > keenness > [noun] moodOE keenshipa1225 ferteec1380 feerness1475 OE Beowulf 1167 He hæfde mod micel. OE Genesis A (1931) 29 Him þær sar gelamp, æfst and oferhygd, and þæs engles mod þe þone unræd ongan ærest fremman. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12714 Cniht he wes wunder god. & he hafde swiðe muchel mod. c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 1123 (MED) Þo was otuwel fol of mood, & fauȝt as he were wood. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 401 Maysterful mod and hyȝe pryde. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xix. 622 The erll, that wes of mekill mude. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cv^v Thai mellit on with malice thay myghtyis in mude. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 32 The marynalis began to heis vp the sail, cryand,..mair mude, mair mude. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xiii. 738 Not waighing in their glorious moodes, how farre the daunger exceeded the attempt.] b. Anger, wrath. to pick (also peck) mood: to take offence, become angry. Obsolete.In later quots. apparently echoing Shakespeare (see quot. a1616). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [noun] irrec825 gramec1000 brathc1175 wrathc1175 mooda1225 ortha1225 felonyc1290 irea1300 greme13.. thro1303 wrathhead1303 errorc1320 angera1325 gremth1340 iroura1380 brethc1380 couragec1386 heavinessc1386 felona1400 follya1400 wrathnessc1440 choler1530 blast1535 malice1538 excandescency1604 stomachosity1656 bad blood1664 corruption1799 needle1874 irateness1961 the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > be or become resentful [verb (intransitive)] to pick (also peck) mooda1225 disdaina1382 endeigna1382 indeign1382 risec1390 to take offencea1393 to take pepper in the nose1520 stomach1557 offenda1578 sdeigna1593 huff1598 to snuff pepper1624 check1635 to bear, owe (a person) a grudge1657 to take check1663 to take (‥) umbrage1683 to ride rusty1709 to flame out, up1753 to take a niff1777 niff1841 spleen1885 to put one's shoulder out1886 to have (or get) the spike1890 derry1896 the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's mind [phrase] to pick (also peck) mooda1225 to turn, wend the luff?c1225 to sing another song or a different tune1390 to waive (one's) wit1390 to change one's minda1500 to change (turn, alter) one's copy1523 to turn (one's) tippet1546 to change one's note1560 to shift hands1611 to face about1645 to change (swap) horses in midstream (while crossing a stream)1864 to sing another tune1890 a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 67 (MED) For-ȝif þi wreððe and þi mod. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 8792 Þat mines æmes muchele mod swa milde is iwurðen. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1838 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 159 (MED) Heo bi-leueden al heore grete mod and heore þretningue. c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) 129 (MED) Sche gan to pekke mod. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 3635 (MED) His herte wax angry & ful of mod. c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1760 At the last aslaked was his mood. a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) 345 (MED) Fadyr..y stode afore þy syȝt, To speke for hem..To turne a waye from hem..þy mode. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 4347 (MED) Or þei twynned þens, þei pekkid moode. 1513 J. Skelton Against Scottes 21 Who so therat pyketh mood, The tokens are not good To be true Englysh blood. a1547 J. Redford Moral Play Wit & Sci. (1848) 101 Lord let thy mercye fall, And mytygate thy moode. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. x. 9 Mood without might is vain and bootlesse [L. vanam sine viribus iram esse]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. i. 49 Who, in my moode, I stab'd vnto the heart. View more context for this quotation 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiv. 275 And now my father in his mood may slay this poor bondsman. 1856 Ld. Tennyson Maud (rev. ed.) i. xiv, in Maud & Other Poems (new ed.) 8 What! am I raging alone as my father raged in his mood? c. Passionate grief. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun] > great sorrow or grief moodc1300 wonder1303 pregravation1623 c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 1405 (MED) Rymenhild was ful of mode; He wep teres of blode. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 1549 (MED) Sorweful man he was þerfore; Neyȝe his hert brast for mode. a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 1259 She wept, she sobbed, for grete moode. a1500 Sir Orfeo (Harl.) (1966) 93 (MED) Euer sche cryed with grete mode. 3. a. A prevailing but temporary state of mind or feeling; a person's humour, temper, or disposition at a particular time (later also applied to a crowd of people or other collective body). Also in extended use.In early use not always distinguishable from sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] heartOE erda1000 moodOE i-mindOE i-cundeOE costc1175 lundc1175 evena1200 kinda1225 custc1275 couragec1300 the manner ofc1300 qualityc1300 talentc1330 attemperancec1374 complexionc1386 dispositiona1387 propertyc1390 naturea1393 assay1393 inclinationa1398 gentlenessa1400 proprietya1400 habitudec1400 makingc1400 conditionc1405 habitc1405 conceitc1425 affecta1460 ingeny1477 engine1488 stomach?1510 mind?a1513 ingine1533 affection1534 vein1536 humour?1563 natural1564 facultyc1565 concept1566 frame1567 temperature1583 geniusa1586 bent1587 constitution1589 composition1597 character1600 tune1600 qualification1602 infusion1604 spirits1604 dispose1609 selfness1611 disposure1613 composurea1616 racea1616 tempera1616 crasisc1616 directiona1639 grain1641 turn1647 complexure1648 genie1653 make1674 personality1710 tonea1751 bearing1795 liver1800 make-up1821 temperament1821 naturalness1850 selfhood1854 Wesen1854 naturel1856 sit1857 fibre1864 character structure1873 mentality1895 mindset1909 psyche1910 where it's (he's, she's) at1967 the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > temporary state of mind, mood > [noun] moodOE affection?c1225 affecta1398 statec1450 humour1525 vein1577 frame1579 temperality1600 tempera1628 à la mode1654 disposition1726 spite1735 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > state of feeling or mood > [noun] moodOE cheerc1225 affecta1398 statec1450 mindc1460 stomach1476 spiritc1480 humour1525 vein1577 frame1579 tune1600 tempera1628 transport1658 air1678 tift1717 disposition1726 spite1735 tonea1751 OE Beowulf 50 Him wæs geomor sefa, murnende mod. OE Blickling Homilies 7 Bliþe mode heo sang on þæm cantice. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8945 Witt hafenn sohht te wide whar..Wiþþ serrhfull herrte. & sariȝ mod. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 8 (MED) An asþer aȝen oþer sval & let þat wole mod ut al. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1703 (MED) Þo was ubbe bliþe of mod, Þat he saw him so fayr and hende. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3577 So wurð he wroð, o mode sarp. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 7701 Dauid. þat was mild o mode. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 8 Tho spack Grymbart the dasse..wyth an angry moed. c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. xv. 60 Whyle the princes and potentates paws'd in this good mode. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C2^v With pittie calmd, downe fell his angry mood. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 260 Fortune is merry, And in this mood will giue vs any thing. View more context for this quotation 1638 R. Baillie Let. 27 Feb. (1841) I. 37 Thir reasones make the multitude in a high moode to flock to the Counsell-house. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 382 But like mules they [sc. sheep] are humoursome, and one must..expect their good mood before they will travail. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Luke ii. 38 Nature will have her good Moods, but Grace is steady. 1776 G. White Jrnl. 27 Oct. (1970) ix. 130 Larks frolick much in the air: when they are in that mood the larkers catch them in nets. 1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 8 The self-dubbed Doctor retired in an angry mood. 1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. ii. 68 There was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of the popular mind. 1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. ii. 58 Men talked about..the moods of Nature, the religion of Nature. 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. iii. i. 459 He had been in a bad mood all morning and now he was obviously very angry indeed. 1996 India Today 30 June 90/1 Given the present mood of the courts, it is highly unlikely that the former prime minister can be given a clean chit without a thorough probe. b. An unaccountable fit of gloom or bad temper; a temporarily angry, irritable, or depressed state of mind. Originally in plural, esp. in †to be in one's moods. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of gloominga1400 dumpa1535 mubble fubbles1589 mulligrubs1599 mumps1599 mood1609 blues1741 mopes1742 gloom1744 humdrums1757 dismals1764 horror1768 mournfuls1794 doldrum1811 doleful1822 glumps1825 jim-jams1896 katzenjammer1897 the sniffles1903 mopery1907 joes1916 woofits1918 cafard1924 jimmies1928 the blahs1969 downer1970 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > fit of gloominga1400 terret1515 momurdotesc1540 the sullens1580 pirr1581 pet1590 snuff1592 mulligrubs1599 mumps1599 geea1605 mood1609 miff1623 tetch1623 frumps1671 strunt1721 hump1727 tiff1727 tift1751 huff1757 tig1773 tout1787 sulk1792 twita1825 fantigue1825 fuff1834 grumps1844 spell1856 the grumbles1861 grouch1895 snit1939 mardy1968 moody1969 strop1970 sull1972 cream puff1985 mard1998 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xciii. sig. F4 The falce hearts history Is writ in moods and frounes and wrinckles strange. View more context for this quotation 1703 W. Burnaby Love Betray'd i. 7 What my Cousen in her moods? My Lord, don't mind her. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 188 Then turn'd Sir Torre, and being in his moods Left them. 1863 ‘Holme Lee’ Annis Warleigh II. 307 When first he asked me to marry him did I not say ‘No’..? Have I not told him since I should be dead with moods in a month? 1934 Mod. Psychol. June 29/1 The remainder of the crew would be a harmless lot, unless, of course, they got a ‘mood’, in which case they would..become quite vicious. 1958 J. Kesson White Bird Passes iii. 39 Her Mother was in a mood. 1981 G. Swift Shuttlecock iii. 26 Whenever I am in one of my moods, Marian talks to her plants. 1994 A. L. Kennedy Now that you're Back 236 He was going to have a mood if he wasn't careful, he could feel one on the way. c. The pervading atmosphere or tone of a particular place, event, or period; that quality of a work of art or literature which evokes or recalls a certain emotion or state of mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [noun] > that which causes emotion > one who or that which stirs the emotions > atmosphere or tone causing emotion ambient1892 mood1902 1902 Edinb. Rev. July 39 Campbell's ‘Soldier's Dream’ is the most beautiful rendering in English verse of the war-weary mood. 1906 G. B. Shaw in A. L. Coburn Alvin Langdon Coburn (1966) iii. 36 In landscape he shows the same power... His impulse is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. 1919 E. O'Neill Moon of Caribbees 32 Brooding music, faint and far-off, like the mood of the moonlight made audible. 1976 Outdoor Living (N. Z.) 1 ii. 43/3 (advt.) You can choose a fence that enhances the general mood of your home. 1990 Artist's & Illustrator's Mag. May 25 (caption) The sky, which always determines the mood of the landscape is registered using blue green,..yellow gold and grey. Phrases †P1. with (also in) mood and main [compare Old Saxon mōd endi megincraft] : fervently, in earnest. Also with main and mood, in mood and might. Cf. main n.¹ Phrases 1, might n.¹ Phrases 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy with (also in) mood and maineOE vigour13.. with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330 with (one's) forcec1380 like anything1665 hammer and tongs1708 like stour1787 (in) double tides1788 like blazes1818 like winking1827 with a will1827 like winky1830 like all possessed1833 in a big way1840 like (or worse than) sin1840 full swing1843 like a Trojan1846 like one o'clock1847 like sixty1848 like forty1852 like wildfire1857 like old boots1865 like blue murder1867 like steam1905 like stink1929 like one thing1938 like a demon1945 up a storm1953 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) i. xii. 54 Ða ongunnon heo sticcemælum mod & mægen monian. OE Blickling Homilies 97 Forðon we sceolan mid ealle mod & mægene to Gode gecyrran. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2624 (MED) Þou sal hir serue wit mode [a1400 Gött. mith] and mayn. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 23584 (MED) To worshepe god atte ham has diȝt, Þai graiþ ham baþ in mode & miȝt. a1425 (c1333–52) L. Minot Poems (1914) 20 (MED) God..Strenkith him main & mode, His reght in France to win. ?a1425 (?c1350) Northern Passion (Rawl.) 1167 (MED) Þat ilk place with mayn and mode Þe Iewes gert call þe feld of blode. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 555 (MED) Þai þat loues god with mayne and mode, All thing turnes þaim to gode. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 199 With moyde and mayn. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 58 Allace, now mingis my mane and mude. P2. †a. With verbs used alliteratively, as to mar (also amar, amend, mese, ming, etc.) one's mood, marred (also minged, etc.) in one's mood. Also to mourn in mood, to mean one's mood (see mean v.²), to mean oneself of one's mood. Obsolete.to mend one's mood: see mend v. 7a. ΚΠ eOE Metres of Boethius (transcript of damaged MS) viii. 44 Ðeos gitsunc hafað gumena gehwelces mod amerred. OE Cynewulf Juliana 412 Acyrred cuðlice from Cristes æ, mod gemyrred me to gewealde in synna seað. c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 608 (MED) Nes þis meiden nawiht herfore imenget in hire mod inwið. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 3407 His mod him gon mengen; he morȝnede swiðe. c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) 123 Hit is a derne mourni[n]g in mod. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2259 (MED) Sua he mengud þam þair mode þat naman oþer vndirstode. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 3059 Quils sco hir mened of hir mode Comfort had sco son ful gode. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 764 Wylt þou mese þy mode and menddyng abyde? c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. 263 (MED) Why meuestow þi mode for a mote in þi brotheres eye. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 3454 (MED) Mane, amende thy mode, or thow myshappen. a1450 York Plays (1885) 179 (MED) He has fastid, þat marris his mode, Ther fourty dayes with-owten foode. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 1099 Als Inglismen sair murnyt in thar mude. ?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Bij Meuyd all in moode. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. ii. 13 Witht sceptour in hand thair muyd to meis and still. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Giiii He may mende your mode. a1586 King Hart l. 170 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 260 Out of mesour marrit in thair mude. b. to change (also †turn) one's mood: to alter one's state of mind or feeling; to feel or behave differently; also one's mood changes.Cf. to change one's mind at mind n.¹ 12. ΚΠ ?a1300 Dame Sirith 109 in G. H. McKnight Middle Eng. Humorous Tales (1913) 6 Dame, dame, torn þi mod. a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) 102 (MED) Ychaunged was al his mod. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 3222 Bot be ane aftyre mydnyghte all his mode changede. c1480 (a1400) St. Katherine 485 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 456 The emprioure þan changit his mud. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. v. sig. Q6 Therewith she gan at first to change her mood, As one adaw'd, and halfe confused stood. View more context for this quotation 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus i. sig. B^v Be hot, and cold with him; change eury moode, Habit, and garbe, as often as he varies. View more context for this quotation 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i. 6 Dear Roger, when your Jo puts on her Gloom, Do ye sae too, and never fash your Thumb. Seem to forsake her, soon she'll change her Mood. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiv. 170 His mood was entirely changed. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 218 When he tired of ground-going..he would follow a tree-road till his mood changed. 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xvi. 140 Then he changed his mood. He asked if he might speak as an old friend. 1954 P. Frankau Wreath for Enemy iii. iii. 181 Our mood had changed; we were frivolous and giggly. 1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) x. 261 Marty Robinson mugged for a TV camera crew that day in Central Park, then changed his mood, stared defiantly into the camera, and said [etc.]. P3. to be in the (also a) mood: to feel disposed or inclined for or to do something (formerly also †of doing something). Similarly in no mood. in the (also a) —— mood: enthusiastic for or disposed to enjoy the thing specified. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > [adjective] disposedc1340 willed1417 affecta1425 willinga1425 affectionatec1487 mindedc1487 talenteda1500 well-minded1524 affectioned?1532 affectionated1561 mindful1565 aminded1571 ingineda1583 affected1584 pregnant1604 in the (also a) —— mooda1625 fond1666 apt1677 a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine v. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ii3^v/1 You'r pleasant, but Fabrito know I am not in the mood [printed wood] of Suffering jest. 1639 J. Mayne Citye Match iii. ii. 27 He is not in the mood now. 1733 in M. Masters Poems Several Occasions 209 While Husband in the cooing mood Gives you a Buss, nor cares who sees it. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 146 I made half a dozen different beginnings, and could no way please myself. In short, I was in no mood to write. 1786 T. Jefferson Let. 12 Oct. in Papers (1954) X. 452 I did not interrupt them sooner because I was in a mood for hearing sermons. 1798 M. Wollstonecraft Maria ii She was in a talking mood, and proceeded to inform me how she had been used in the world. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. xxv. 393 But the Council was not in a mood for such reflections. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ix. 284 She was in no mood for sleep. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xlvii. 426 He saw what men were in the mood to do. 1937 V. Woolf Years 371 She had never felt less in the mood for a party. 1955 D. Eden Darling Clementine xvi. 159 Darling little boys do these things when they're in the mood. 1987 N. Hinton Buddy's Song xi. 61 His dad wasn't in the mood to listen. Compounds C1. Esp. in Psychology. mood-altering adj. ΚΠ 1968 Jrnl. Health & Social Behavior 9 156/2 A small number of hippie communes and settlements..where..the use of all mind and mood-altering drugs is disapproved of. 1994 Esquire Aug. 97/3 Researchers discovered the existence of mood-altering, naturally occurring brain substances known as opioid peptides. mood-changing adj. ΚΠ 1967 Public Opinion Q. 31 436 The purpose of this study was to obtain quantitative descriptions of how people obtain and use psychotropic (i.e. mood-changing) drugs. 1981 C. Bly Lett. from Country xxi. 116 People hunch over the samovar, counting on tea as a mood-changing drug to carry them. mood-controlling adj. ΚΠ 1988 K. Logan Paganism & Occult 157 Medical theorists suggest that these experiences are actually hallucinations caused by the brain's mood-controlling limbic system being starved of oxygen. mood-elevating adj. ΚΠ 1968 Current Therapeutic Res. 10 144 Pipradol hydrochloride has been reported to possess mood-elevating and stimulating properties without accompanying marked ANS stimulation. 1993 Psychol. Today July 70/2 The consequences of mood-elevating drugs that violate the principle of conservation of mood—that break the rule of ‘what goes up must come down’. C2. mood board n. a collage of images intended to evoke or project a particular style or image, esp. in marketing a product. ΚΠ 1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Home section) 1 I work in my head, then do thumbnail sketches... Then I do a ‘mood board’. I'll use fabric swatches, pull pictures..out of publications, [etc.]. 1990 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Apr. 19 To get the right feel for the product, there were ‘mood boards’, collages of appropriate images culled from glossy magazines. 1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 203 The funky logo was a vibrant expression of Bones' lifestyle... He'd obviously used a mood board to create it. mood brightener n. (a) something that raises the spirits, something cheering or enlivening; (b) a drug used to alleviate depression; an antidepressant; cf. mood elevator n. ΚΠ 1948 N.Y. Times 23 Sept. 10 (advt.) Mood brighteners, these R & K dresses. 1959 N.Y. Times 18 July 23/3 Chas. Pfizer & Co...received a patent this week for Nialamide, a mood-brightener that the company regards as an important development in the field of mental drugs. 1994 W. F. Allman Stone Age Present (1995) iv. 106 It is this crucial role of sadness in our lives that has led some evolutionary psychologists to ask whether..so-called mood brighteners such as Valium and Prozac are really all that good for us. 2011 Independent on Sat. (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 11 June (E1 ed.) 13 The first single, Jirey, is an instant mood-brightener and already a firm favourite among the group's fans. mood control drug n. = mood drug n. ΚΠ 1986 Sun 17 June 2/3 He was treated last week by a doctor specialising in mood-control drugs. 1989 Chicago Tribune 5 Apr. 25 Food is probably the most common mood control drug. mood disorder n. a psychological disorder chiefly characterized by the elevation or depression of a person's mood; an affective disorder. ΚΠ 1981 G. Winokur Depression p. vii There is a large body of data about the mood disorders. 1999 N.Y. Times 7 Feb. iv. 3/1 As mental health experts learn more about mood disorders, it is becoming clear that depression and manic-depression..are a significant cause of homelessness. mood drug n. colloquial a psychotropic drug; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [noun] > psychotropic or psychedelic drug psychedelic1956 psychodysleptic1957 psychotogen1957 psychotomimetic1957 psychochemical1958 psychopharmaceutical1962 psychoactive1965 psychotropic1966 psychomimetic1967 mood drug1970 1970 Time 10 Aug. 44/2 There is some opposition to the use of mood drugs for children. 1996 C. J. Stone Fierce Dancing i. 15 Ecstasy is a mood drug. When you're happy and in love it makes you more happy, more in love. mood elevation n. the lifting of a person's mood, esp. as effected by drugs. ΚΠ 1961 Science 13 Jan. 105/1 Tryptophan administration was accompanied by mild to marked changes characterized primarily by mood elevation.., and more active deep tendon reflexes. 1983 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 302 156 It is infeasible to ask subjects to causally ascribe their mood elevation to an affectively incongruous event (e.g. to feel euphoric over a child's grief). mood elevator n. a drug which improves a person's mood, spec. an antidepressant; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [noun] > antidepressant psychic energizer1957 thymoleptic1959 psychostimulant1961 mood elevator1968 SSRI1991 1968 Science 27 Dec. 1446/2 Another group of investigators, using a monoamine oxidase inhibitor..to retard the degradation of the hypothetical mood elevator, norepinephrine, [etc.]. 1977 Addictive Dis. 3 283 Mood elevators, or anti depressants, are urged upon the aging patient. 1995 Guardian 18 Feb. (Weekend Suppl.) 8/1 A welcome act of flirtation can act as a mood elevator, enhancing the recipient's well-being. mood lighting n. (originally) stage lighting intended to suggest, evoke, or induce a particular atmosphere or frame of mind; (later also more generally) lighting of any kind intended to induce a particular mood, esp. one of relaxation or receptivity. ΚΠ 1921 Theatre Arts Mag. Apr. 121 The most mooted point of discussion aroused by the Medea was that of its lighting—‘mood-lighting’... Such lighting..has always been representative in character; used here orchestrally, abstractly, non-realistically, it was something of a novelty. 1941 Barron's 8 Sept. 20/1 Dr. Hibben expects the home of tomorrow to have..systems of changeable color lights for mood lighting in living rooms, say, to produce a cool green color during summer. 1960 Amer. Cinematographer May 300/2 There was no opportunity for the mood lighting or unusual camera angles that cinematographers so dearly love to sink their professional teeth into. 2010 K. Barry in New Yorker 1 Feb. 64/1 I turned off the harsh strip lighting overhead and switched to the mood lighting, which moved in lovely, dreamy disco swirls. mood music n. music intended to induce a particular mood, esp. one of relaxation or receptivity. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > other general types country music1585 water musicc1660 concert music1776 eye music1812 ballet music1813 night music1832 absolute music1856 Tafelmusik1880 Ars Antiqua1886 Ars Nova1886 early music1886 tone poetry1890 mood music1922 Gebrauchsmusik1930 shake music1935 modernistic1938 industrial1942 spasm music1943 musica reservata1944 protest music1949 night music1950 palm court music1958 title music1960 bottleneck guitar1961 rinky-tink1962 Schrammel-musik1967 sweet music1967 chutney1968 roots music1969 electronica1980 multiphonics1983 chutney soca1987 chiptune1992 1922 Observer 19 Feb. 7/4 Mr. Mitchell..played the fourth Sonata, together with several of the shorter pieces of this early transitional period—‘Fragilité’, ‘Irato’, and ‘Ironies’—that show Scriabin's power of making mood-music. 1940 A. Oboler Fourteen Radio Plays 257 Mood music, music as background to plant mood of scene. 1955 D. Keene Who has Wilma Lathrop? ii. 19 ‘Would you prefer mood music?’.. Wilma stacked the spindle with records. 1998 S. Reynolds Energy Flash iii. 81 Graham Massey was a big fan of Martin Denny, whose tiki music (quasi-Polynesian mood-music for suburban cocktail parties) often featured tropical bird-calls. mood ring n. a ring set with a stone containing heat-sensitive crystals which change colour according to body temperature, supposed in this way to reflect the wearer's mood. ΚΠ 1975 New Scientist 30 Oct. 298/2 The Mood Ring—a finger ornament which changes colour with the wearer's emotions. 1995 Denver Post 16 Jan. e3/1 The younger baby boomers, whose cultural touchstones included disco, divorce, mood rings and ‘The Brady Bunch’. mood swing n. an abrupt change of mood without apparent cause, esp. as a symptom of certain mental disorders; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > instability or unbalance > mood swing associated with mood swing1916 1916 Southern Med. Jrnl. 9 496/1 The exact type of psychosis does not always bear a specific relation to the etiological factor, but rather may be an exaggeration of a more or less common mood swing. 1965 J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatm. i. 5 Manic-depressive type... Commoner among those with a family history of mood swings or similar illness. 2011 Esquire Mar. 144/2 Even short-term use [of steroids] can cause mood swings and aggression. C3. attributive. Designating something, esp. a work of art, which suggests, evokes, or recalls a particular atmosphere or frame of mind. Cf. mood music n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1898 G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite 124 Beethoven had shown how those inarticulate mood-poems which surge through men who have..no exceptional command of words, can be written down in music as symphonies. 1927 Observer 14 Aug. 8 On the last side of 86 is Joseph Speaight's expressive little mood-picture for quartet, ‘The Lonely Shepherd’. 1962 Listener 27 Dec. 1102/2 They seem to me to be mood-poetry in a pejorative sense. 1970 Daily Tel. 20 May 16/8 It says much for Mr Wesker's delicate mood-piece that it nevertheless made an effect. 1989 R. MacNeil Wordstruck i. 29 Did I get my taste for melodrama, for satire, for atmospheric mood-writing from Dickens, too? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). moodn.² Brit. /muːd/, U.S. /mud/ Forms: late Middle English moodd, late Middle English–1600s moode, late Middle English– mood; also Scottish pre-1700 mud, pre-1700 mude, pre-1700 muid, pre-1700 mwde. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mode n. Etymology: Originally a variant of mode n., perhaps reinforced by association with mood n.¹The Middle English forms in -oo- given here could alternatively be analysed as showing mode n. 1. Grammar. a. A form or set of forms of a verb in an inflected language, serving to indicate whether the verb expresses fact, command, wish, conditionality, etc.; the quality of a verb as represented or distinguished by a particular mood. Cf. aspect n. 9b, tense n. 2a.The principal moods are known as indicative (expressing fact), imperative (command), interrogative (question), optative (wish), and subjunctive (conditionality). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > mood > [noun] modusOE modec1450 moodc1450 c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 38 A verbe..is declined wyth moode and tyme w^toute case. c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 26 Þis lytel wurd ‘to’ beforn a verbe is syne of infenityf mood. 1574 A. Golding in J. Baret Aluearie To Rdr. sig. *.i How shall men directly fynde The Coniugation, Nomber, Person, Tence, And Moode of Verbes togither in their kynde? 1669 J. Milton Accedence* 17 There be four Moods, which express the manner of doing; the Indicative, the Imperative, the Potential or Subjunctive, and the Infinitive. 1751 J. Harris Hermes i. viii. 140 Hence..the variety of Modes or Moods. 1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. 39 Mood is a particular form of the verb, shewing the manner in which the being, action, or passion is represented. 1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 69 A mere grammatical metamorphosis from mood to mood. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf xxxvii. 345 No more would he conjugate the verb ‘to do’ in every mood and tense. ‘To be’ was all that remained to him. 1962 J. L. Austin et al. How to do Things with Words i. 1 The few and jejune grammatical marks available, such as word order, mood, and the like. 1995 Focus Aug. 44/2 In Kivunjo, a small Bantu language in East Africa, each verb has seven prefixes and suffixes, two moods, 14 tenses, [etc.]. b. Used punningly with reference to mood n.¹ 3a. ΚΠ a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 51 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) All your fortunes we can tell yee..: In the Moods too, and the Tenses, That may fit your fine five sences. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 14 This Baggage once in her mad Moods and Tenses Had Lombard read, the Master o' th' Sentences. 1784 J. O'Keeffe Agreeable Surprise (new ed.) ii. ii. 24 She's in the imperative mood. O damnatus, obstinatus mulier! 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. iv. 79 You are, of course, jealous, in all the tenses and moods of that amicable passion. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 13/1 The things that were momentous to FitzGerald were the moods and tenses of himself, of nature, and his friends. 2. Logic. a. Any of the valid forms into which each of the four figures (figure n. 23) of categorical syllogism is subdivided according to the several ways in which syllogisms differ in the quality (affirmative or negative) and quantity (universal or particular) of their constituent propositions. Cf. mode n. 3a.Aristotle defined the concept of mood in this sense in his Prior Analytics, without giving it a technical name. Mood (ancient Greek τρόπος) first appears as a technical term in logic in the writings of the Stoics (1st cent. b.c.–1st cent. a.d.), which only survive in fragments. Classical Latin modus, the normal translation in other senses of ancient Greek τρόπος, was used in its logical sense by the schoolmen from Abelard (1079–1142) onwards.The moods have mnemonic names derived from a set of hexameters sometimes ascribed to an English schoolman, William Shyreswood or Shirwood (fl. 1245–67), but they are chiefly known from their inclusion, c1250, in the Summulae Logicales of Petrus Hispanus (c1215–77). The names of the fourth figure are a post-Renaissance addition.In all of these names (see Barbara n., Celarent n., etc.), the three vowels represent the quality and quantity of the three propositions: A = universal affirmative, E = universal negative, I = particular affirmative, O = particular negative. (Some of the consonants also have significant functions relating to the reduction of syllogisms of the second, third, and fourth figures to syllogisms of the first figure.) The number of traditionally recognized valid moods is 19, viz. four in the first figure, four in the second, six in the third, and five in the fourth.A different, and probably historically older, sense of the word occurs in some writers alongside the sense above explained. In this sense the mood of a syllogism is the type of structure to which it belongs in respect of quality and quantity alone, without regard to the figure; so that, e.g., Celarent in the first figure and Cesare in the second would be not two moods but two varieties of the same mood. (See, for instance, quot. 1906.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [noun] > mood or mode mode1532 mood1569 trope1656 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. vii. f. 21^v A Syllogisme..which ought to be in one of the .xix. Moodes. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome sig. Eiv^v The moode answereth unto Celarent, elder daughter to Barbara. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iii. §29. 142 In what mood or figure, would this conclusion follow out of these Premises? 1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic xvi. 136 We call each of these triplets of propositions a mood or form of the syllogism. 1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 88 The above rule, which, where both premisses are affirmative, requires one to be universal, prescribes a particular affirmative conclusion, and admits the moods Darapti, Datisi, and Disamis. 1906 H. W. B. Joseph Introd. Logic xii. 240 The difference of mood depends on the quantity and quality of the propositions composing the syllogism. This may be the same in different figures, or different in the same figure... The different moods have received distinct names in the various figures wherein they occur; and hence what are called the ‘mood-names’..indicate both figure and mood. 1974 Sci. Amer. Jan. 110/2 The major premise, the minor premise and the conclusion of a syllogism can each be of four different forms, giving 64 possible moods. 1989 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 265/2 Indirect reduction can be used not only for Baroco and Bocardo but for all moods of the second and third figures. †b. mood and figure n. due logical form (cf. quots. 1699, 1723 at mode n. 3a). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [adverb] > in due logical form mood and figure1589 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. Bbj Tis neither in moode nor figure. 1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 86 For let it fare as it may in Topickes, in Analytickes it must fast: it can not away with moode and figure. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 111 O what a midnight Curse has he, whose side Is pester'd with a Mood and Figure Bride! [Note 124] A Mood and Figure-Bride. A Woman who has learn'd Logick. 1702 G. Farquhar Disc. upon Comedy 132 Homer is proved a Poet by Mood and Figure. 3. Music. a. In late medieval music: the ratio of the duration of a large to a long, or a long to a breve, in the rhythm of a piece (cf. mode n. 1b). Also (occasionally): any of a set of ternary rhythmic patterns (see mode n. 1d). Now historical.The great mood determined the relation of the large to the long (see large adj. 4, long n.¹ 2a), the lesser mood that of the long to the breve. Each of these was called perfect when the greater note was equal to three of the smaller, imperfect when it was equal to two. Cf. prolation n. 2, time n. 26b.In quot. c1570 the precise meaning is ambiguous; perhaps an example of sense 3c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] proportiona1387 measurea1525 mode1561 casure1565 moodc1570 rhythm1576 rhyme1586 stotc1590 dimension1597 sextupla1597 timing1597 rhythmus1603 cadence1605 time1609 cadency1628 movement1683 lilt1841 metre1873 tempus1889 riddim1943 c1570 Art of Music (BL Add. 4911) f. 5, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mud(e Of divisione of mud,..mud maior, quhilk is in larggis and longgis, and mud minor, quhilk is longis and brewis, and ewerie ane of them in perfyt and inperfect is dewydit. 1572 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes (rev. ed.) Short Introd. sig. Avii^v To set out a full and absolute knowledge of the nature of the Scale..: what moodes there are, & how many: what is perfection, what imperfection: [etc.]. 1588 W. Byrd Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs Tenor. sig. Aij^v In some of the songs the Moode is mistaken: wherefore where you see this Moode..being the Perfect of the lesse: sing after this Moode being the Imperfect of the more. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke i. 12 Ma. Degrees of musicke they made three, Moode: Time and Prolation. Phi. What did they tearme a Moode? Ma. The dew measuring of Longes and Larges, and was either greater or lesser. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Music, Annot. ⁋4 b If a plainsong consisted al of Longes, it was called the first mood: if of a Long & a Briefe successiuely, it was called the second mood, &c. 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 42 A Moode..is the measure of Longs in Larges, or of Breefes in Longs. 1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 2 In regard the Notes now in vse are not of so long a quantity, as when the Perfect Moodes were vsed. 1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) v. sig. K3^v Now and then shee beginneth in duple time some two or three Semibriefes, but alwaies endeth with Minims of the triple Moode. 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 183 As all Discant moves in some particular Measure, Mode, or Mood, he [sc. Franco] first defines a Mood... ‘A Mood is the representation of the time of measured sounds, expressed by Longs or Breves.’ 1978 R. Hoppin Medieval Mus. xv. 355 The mood is perfect if the long equals three breves, imperfect if it equals two. †b. A written symbol used to indicate such a mood. Obsolete. rare.retorted mood: see retorted adj.¹ 2. ΚΠ 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke sig. 2 In all Moodes (or rather signes) of the more prolation, he setteth a minime for a whole stroke. †c. = mode n. 1c (in the various applications discussed there). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > ancient Greek modes modec1400 mood1597 measure1625 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > key > major or minor keys mode1721 mood1788 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke* Annot. sig. ¶4^v By the name of Mood were signified many thinges in Musicke. First those which the learned call moodes, which afterward were tearmed by the name of tunes. 1667 C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Musick 112 That which the Grecians called Mode or Mood, the Latins termed Tone or Tune. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 550 Anon they move In perfect Phalanx to the Dorian mood Of Flutes and soft Recorders. View more context for this quotation 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 138 The several Moods (some call'd them Tones) of Music. 1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick iii. 57 Their [sc. the Greeks'] Seven Moods,..were no more than the Seven different Methods of altering their Tunes, by Flats and Sharps placed at the Beginning of a Lesson. 1788 T. Cavallo in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 252 The best keys to be played in are the keys of C, of F, of E flat, of B flat, of G and of D in the major mood, and the keys of C, of D, of A, and of B, in the minor mood. 1844 C. Beck & C. C. Felton tr. E. Munk Metres Greeks & Romans 59 Poems of the Doric mood. †d. In extended use recalling mood n.¹ Obsolete. ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 328 And now my death Changes the mood, for what in me was purchast, Fals vpon thee in a more fairer sort. View more context for this quotation 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 22 in Justa Edouardo King That strain I heard was of a higher mood. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 662 But to th' afflicted in his pangs thir sound..seems a tune, Harsh, and of dissonant mood from his complaint. View more context for this quotation †4. = mode n. 9a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion gentryc1400 the fashion1569 mainstream1599 the trim1603 mood1646 mode1649 vogue1649 beauty1653 à la mode1654 turn1695 the kick1699 goût1717 thing1734 taste1739 ton1769 nick1788 the tippy1790 twig1811 latest1814 dernier mot1834 ticket1838 kibosh1880 last cry1887 le (or the) dernier cri1896 flavour of the month (or week)1946 vague1962 1646 J. Shirley Prol. Rosania in Poems ii. 48 Others that have..fashionably observ'd the English Scene, Say, (but with lesse hope to be understood) Such titles unto Playes are now the mood. †5. = mode n. 6. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute > of a substance mood1666 mode1668 modus1675 1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 10 Whether these Accidents may not conveniently enough be call'd the Moods or primary affections of Bodies. Compounds General attributive (in sense 1a). ΚΠ 1928 H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng.: Pt. 1 (ed. 2) I. i. 31 Some of these verbs..are also used as modal auxiliaries, i.e. as substitutes for actually existing mood-forms. 1931 M. Callaway Temporal Subjunctive in Old Eng. 19 This theory is substantially identical with that advocated by Oskar Erdmann..and by Ernst Bernhardt.., hereafter referred to by me as the Erdmann-Bernhardt theory of mood-syntax. 1962 F. Behre Contrib. Eng. Syntax 59 Certain uses of the indicative that have not earlier been duly considered by writers on mood-syntax. 1965 F. Behre in Eng. Stud. 46 90 In both the Old English and Middle English examples the mood-form is indeterminate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). moodv. Brit. /muːd/, U.S. /mud/ Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mood n.¹ Etymology: Probably < mood n.¹In quot. 1796 perhaps an error for brood v. rare. intransitive. To reflect moodily. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)] > contemplate moodily brood1751 mood1796 brood1833 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > be or become melancholy [verb (intransitive)] > be pensive mood1796 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > be ill-humoured [verb (intransitive)] > reflect moodily mood1796 1796 Sir J. Duckworth in Corr. Adm. J. Markham (1904) 81 We returned to Port au Prince to mood upon our absurd indigested and blundering plan. 1938 Z. N. Hurston Let. 3 Dec. in Life in Lett. (2002) 417 When I was a child I used to go hide under the house away from the rest of the family and mood away. 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