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MODERATOR (from Lat. moderare, to impose a modus, limit)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 642 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MODERATOR (from Lat. moderare, to impose a modus, limit) , a judge or umpire, one who acts the
part
  of mediator, and so a
term
  used of the person chosen to be president of a
meeting
  (as in America, of a town
meeting
 ). In academic use, the word was formerly applied to the public officer who presided over the exercises, &c., prescribed forcandidates for degrees in the university schools; it is now used at
Cambridge
  of one or two
officers
  who are appointed each year to preside over the examination for the mathematical tripos, at
Oxford
  of an examiner in the first public examination, known as " moderations," and at Dublin of a candidate for honours in the examination for degree of
Bachelor
  of Arts. In the Presbyterian churches the name is applied to the minister elected to preside over ecclesiastical meetings or assemblies, as the synod, presbytery or general
' Some authorities (of whom Tiraboschi was the first) attribute its desertion entirely to a succession of inundations, denying that it was even among the cities destroyed by
Attila
 .assembly (see PRESBYTERIANISM). The name was historically given to a party of people who joined together to oppose the "Regulators," another party who professed to administer
justice
  in the Carolinas (17671771). Technically, the word is also used of a particular form of lamp, in which the flow of oil from the reservoir to the burner is regulated by a mechanical arrangement to which the name is applied.


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