manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.-prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.-variety; gradation; degree.-any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.-the form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.-same as mood.-the scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the dorian mode, the ionic mode, etc., of ancient greek music.-a kind of silk. see alamode, n.