kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained-limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.-limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.-not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate calvinist.-not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.-limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.-limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.-limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.-one of a party in the church of scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.-to restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.-to preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.-to become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.-to preside as a moderator.