moodn.1
/muːd/, U.S. /mud/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.
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. cvv 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. C2v 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
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. Bv 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. Ii3v/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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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moodn.2
/muːd/, U.S. /mud/ 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 wtoute 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.
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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.† b. mood and figure n. due logical form (cf. quots. 1699, 1723 at mode n. 3a). Obsolete.
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.)
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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. 21v A Syllogisme..which ought to be in one of the .xix. Moodes.
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome sig. Eivv 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.
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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.† b. A written symbol used to indicate such a mood. Obsolete. rare.retorted mood: see retorted adj.1 2.† c. = mode n. 1c (in the various applications discussed there). Obsolete.† d. In extended use recalling mood n.1 Obsolete.
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. Aviiv 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. Aijv 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. K3v 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.
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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.
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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. ¶4v 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.
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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
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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.
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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).
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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.
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moodv.
/muːd/, U.S. /mud/ rare.
intransitive. To reflect moodily.
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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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