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moderated, ppl. a.|ˈmɒdəreɪtɪd|
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a. Reasonably restricted and limited. Obs.
1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 14 Theopompus left it [sc. the kingly power] more moderated to his successours. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 496 They say, the Netherlanders were never enslaved, but had alwayes a moderated Empire bounded by Laws. 1690Locke Govt. ii. xiv. (Rtldg.) 159 Moderated monarchies and well-framed governments. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. 1808 V. 333 If the present project of a republick should fail, all securities to a moderated freedom fail along with it.
†b. well moderated: well-conducted. Obs.
1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 178 Abounding in rich, stout, grave, and well moderated Citizens.
2. Rendered moderate; reduced to a moderate amount or degree; duly regulated.
1814D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. (1867) 261 [He] grudgingly bestows a moderated praise on this exquisite satire. 1857Bp. Wilberforce in Life (1881) II. x. 345 Lord Aberdeen thinks that anything but a carefully moderated course..will come in too strong contrast with your past silence. 1878Dowden Stud. in Lit. 45 Those who possess a moderated but steadfast confidence in the beneficent tendencies of the laws of the world.
3. Nuclear Sci. Of a reactor: provided with a moderator. Of a neutron: slowed down by a moderator.
1945[see graphite b]. 1950F. Gaynor Encycl. Atomic Energy 114 In a moderated reactor there remain more free neutrons to sustain and propagate the fission chain reaction of U235. 1962Newnes Conc. Encycl. Nucl. Energy 244/2 Most of the fissions [in a thermal reactor] are produced by these moderated neutrons. |