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

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MODERATOR (from Lat. moderare, to impose a modus, limit) , a judge or umpire, one who acts the

part

PART

of mediator, and so a

term

TERM

used of the person chosen to be president of a

meeting

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the
people
- PEOPLE
; cf. witanagemot)

(as in America, of a town

meeting

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the
people
- PEOPLE
; cf. witanagemot)

). 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

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

BACHELOR (from Med. Lat. baccalarius, with its late and rare variant baccalaris—cf. Ital. baccalare—through O. Fr. bacheler)

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

ATTILA (d. 453)

.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

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

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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