the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Mode
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(n.) A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
(3):
(n.) Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
(4):
(n.) Same as Mood.
(5):
(n.) Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
(6):
(n.) Variety; gradation; degree.
(7):
(n.) 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.
(8):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Mode'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/mode.html. 1828.
