Moderate

1. 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.
2. Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.
3. Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.
4. Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.
5. Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.
6. To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.
7. Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist.
8. Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
9. To preside as a moderator.
10. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.
11. 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.
12. Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.
13. To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.