单词 | very moderate |
释义 | > as lemmasvery moderate a. Of medium or middling quality, size, or extent; average in intensity, difficulty, or degree; fairly large or good; intermediate. Later also depreciative (esp. in very moderate): of limited extent or quality; mediocre, scanty. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > moderateness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] evenlya1200 methefully?c1225 renable?1305 reasonablea1325 measurablec1330 skillwisea1340 moderatea1398 temperate1398 meetlya1400 measurablyc1450 rationablec1475 competent1535 midway1573 modest1582 sober1619 medious1657 slack1662 meeverly1819 low key1941 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective] > middling or mediocre moderatea1398 half-piec1926 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 211v Eueriche herbe and tree nedeþ..moderat water. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. O I shal streyne with a moderate compendiosite þe principale or namely leryngz of wisemen. c1450 J. Lydgate Dietary (Sloane) 75 in Anglia (1918) 42 191 Moderat fode growith to mannys helth. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 885 Moderat Dyete & Wysdom auenaunt [etc.]. c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne C iij b Moderate slepe..doth anymat and comforte all the naturall, animall, and spyrytuall, powers of man. a1547 Earl of Surrey in Nugæ Antiquæ (1804) II. 358 The cheif blisse that in earth to liuing man is lent, Is moderat welth. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. v. 12 There's not so much left to furnish out a moderate Table. View more context for this quotation 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 42 That all the proiected or Iutting Parts (as they are tearmed) be very moderate. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvi. 100 And some, through the default of their Memories..are not able all their life-time, to reckon or regularly go over any moderate Series of Numbers. 1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica Pref. sig. C3v Moderate Exercise..will enrich the Fluids. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 283 A good Bargain it were, cou'd we get rid of every moderate Performance in this kind [sc. Poetry or Essay]. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vi. 350 Pedro Blanco is a rock of a small circumference, but of a moderate height. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 73 [In Russia] they put a very moderate faggot into them [sc. stoves]. 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 314 A second case..terminated..in a moderate sweat. 1828 E. B. Pusey Hist. Enq. Rationalist Char. I. i. 38 The rest are very moderate productions. 1889 Sat. Rev. 16 Mar. 326/1 He [sc. the horse Monarque] looks long in the back and has very moderate loins. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 162 The skin assumes a moderate icteroid hue. 1914 W. J. Bean Trees & Shrubs Hardy in Brit. Isles II. 118 The Pachysandras..make neat tufts, but are of only moderate decorative value. 1956 A. J. J. Moulam Tryfan & Glyder Fach 85 Ordinary route. About 200 feet. Moderate. 1957 B. L. Ginzton Microwave Measurem. viii. 389 The frequency of the unknown signal can be measured with moderate accuracy by an instrument called the heterodyne frequency meter. 1971 N. Tennent Islands of Scotl. i. 32 Arran rock offers little choice between easy to moderate scrambles and hard, strenuous routes. 1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 1 June a71/1 (advt.) Required,..a tutor for special needs pupils with moderate learning difficulties. < as lemmas |
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