1820 D. Carey Lochiel iii. 80 A moade is just a court o' chustice where ta chief and ta Duinne Wassail o' ta clan sit in judgment.

1930 Times 6 Sept. 7 They [sc. the St Kildans] were interested in no administrative body except their own Mòd, or parliament. This assembly dealt with all matters pertaining to the life of the community.

1935 Observer 29 Sept. 25 ‘Mòd’ is a word of common origin with the English ‘mote’, and ‘meet’, and was anciently applied to councils and other clan gatherings at which laws were formulated, or interpreted.

1977 C. Maclean St Kilda (ed. 2) iii. 36 Decisions on all matters concerning the welfare of the community were taken by the Mòd, or the St Kilda Parliament, as it later came to be known—a deliberative assembly composed of all the grown males on the island.

1891 Oban Express 8 May 3/7 ‘Am Mod Ghaidhealach’..is to be the title of the Highland Eisteddfod Association... Perhaps through time (and I wish the ‘Mod’ long life and prosperity) English speakers will be able to shape it into an Anglicised form for their own benefit.

1892 Scotsman 14 Sept. 7/1 A somewhat novel departure in Highland gatherings was held yesterday at Oban. The Mòd, as it is called, is intended to be held annually.

1927 Observer 2 Oct. 21 The Highland Mod, the great annual gathering and festival held under the auspices of An Commun Ghaidhealach, the organisation of Gaelic-speaking bodies in Scotland, takes place at Fort William on Tuesday and the succeeding three days.

1950 W. R. Bird This is Nova Scotia viii. 250 And there each July the Gaelic Mod and Highland Gathering is held.

1962 Scottish Field Nov. 115 Oban, birthplace of An Comunn Gaidhealach, extended hopitality to the Gaelic influx for the annual Mod last month.

1973 B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xiii. 154 And every summer we'd go to the Gaelic Mod over on Cape Breton Island.

1995 Scotsman 18 Oct. 8/4 Edinburgh and Glasgow could lose out on the chance to be regular venues for the Royal National Mod.

1907 N.E.D. at Moderate sb. About 1843 the abbreviated forms Mods and Nons were familiarly used for ‘Moderates’ and ‘Non-intrusionists’.

1965 Sc. National Dict. VI. 310/3 In the controversies which led up to the Disruption of 1843, the reduced form Mod is frequent.

2001 Time 30 July 17/2 Last week more than half a dozen mods [sc. moderate Republican members of Congress] threatened another procedural challenge to sink Bush's faith-based initiative.

1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 43 Has this Wimpey got the new escape gear mod?

1967 New Scientist 14 Dec. 654/2 If the ‘mods’ are minor, the production line could absorb them without much interruption.

1974 Publishers Weekly 12 Aug. 54/2 A rising generation of behavioral psychologists..is fanning out into our society to do its ‘behavior mod’ thing... These lab-trained mod squads have begun infiltrating schools, American family life, [etc.].

1990 Mountain Biking UK Summer Special 79/1 On the whole the Escaper needs a few minor mods to turn it into a very capable all-round mountain bike.

1960 New Left Rev. Sept. 4/2 Teds and Mods, Beatniks and Ravers.

1963 Guardian 13 May 18/1 Fights between the ‘mods’ and the ‘rockers’.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 22 The Mods, both girls and boys, were very clean and neat and both wore close cut hair.

1987 Scootering July 54/1 All Scooter boys and girls should stick together whether they are Skins, Mods or Psychos.

1991 J. O'Connor Cowboys & Indians (1992) 4 She was dressed like a mod, a mess of mohair, black brothelcreeper shoes.

2000 Scootering Mar. (Scooter Trader Suppl.) 47/2 If you ride a metal bodied scooter, drink like a fish, and like to cause havoc, contact us. All rudies, skins, and mods (well, maybe the mods) are welcome.

1964 in C. Hamblett & J. Deverson Generation X 13 Mod girls have a short back-and-sides hair cut like men used to, wear shift-style dresses with round collars.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 194 The ‘Mod’ hair-cut, as opposed to long-haired ‘Rockers’, is short, neat and cut close to the head.

1985 Music Week 2 Feb. (Advt. pullout) 1 We had top 30 success with mod band The Merton Parkas.

1997 H. Kureishi Love in Blue Time 159 Moon had a mod haircut and wore little blue round shades.

1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Abbrev. p. viii Mod. Fr., Modern French.

1884 N.E.D. at A prep.² In mod. spelling, of when contracted is written o'.

1935 M. McLuhan Let. 27 Feb. (1987) 62 To-night we had Ernst Freud..at the Hesperides. He is an architect and his theme was ‘mod arch. in Eng—question mark’.

1949 Argus (Melbourne) 4 June 17/6 Brick Maisonette, mod. 6 rms. in each.

1965 Granta Summer 10 Student activists..have taken more account of the mod image cultivated by some universities.

1970 G. Jackson Let. 4 Apr. in Soledad Brother (1971) 207 This running dog..was transmitting the credo of the slave to our youth, the mod version of the old house nigger.

1976 Daily Tel. 31 Dec. 7/4 But the frontiers of taste in the cinema are certainly being pushed backwards or forwards according to whether your view is mod or trad.

1995 Burda Aug. 33 You'll love this jacket. It's wide and comfortable, yet very mod thanks to the asymmetrical cut.

1958 ‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose i. 17 Captain Pascoe had it modded, special.

1977 Custom Car Nov. 2/2 (advt.) Wider, lower, power-profiled radials from Dunlop. Race and rally-bred for performance. And precision engineered to make the most of all your car has been built, bred or modded to deliver.

1992 Fly Past Nov. 53/2 Professional had not modded the doors on their demonstrator at Farnborough, but were offering options that included a cargo winch and other turnaround improvers.

1854 Cambr. & Dublin Math. Jrnl. 9 85 Each of these quantities must be congruent to zero, that is A₀ ≡ o, A₁ ≡ o,..A_p−2 ≡ o (mod. p).

1860 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1859 230 The congruence ϕ(x) ≡ o, mod P, is said to be solved, when all the integral values of x are assigned which make the left hand number of the congruence divisible by P.

1949 J. V. Uspensky & M. A. Heaslet Elem. Number Theory vi. 128 Two congruences with the same moduli can be added or subtracted, member by member, like equalities. In other words, from two congruences A ≡ a (mod m), B ≡ b (mod m) it follows that A ± B ≡ a ± b (mod m).

1949 W. Ledermann Introd. Theory Finite Groups i. 17 ax ≡ bx (mod. m) implies that a ≡ b (mod. m).

1975 I. Stewart Concepts Mod. Math. iii. 35 In arithmetic mod n we can add and multiply numbers much as in ordinary arithmetic.

1990 T. Petrie & J. Randall Connections, Definite Forms, & Four-manifolds 123 If σ is the generator of π₃(SO(3)), then p₀(ξ(σ)) = (mod 4) in H⁴(S⁴).