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Webster 1913 Edition
Mood
1.
Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See
Mode
which is the preferable form). 2.
(Gram.)
Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.;
as, the indicative
mood
; the imperitive mood
; the infinitive mood
; the subjunctive mood
. Same as Mode
.Mood
,Noun.
[OE.
mood
, mod
, AS. mōd
mind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. mōd
, D. moed
, OHG. muot
, G. muth
, mut
, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod
, Icel. mōðr
wrath, Goth. mōds
.] Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor;
as, a melancholy
mood
; a suppliant mood
.Till at the last aslaked was his
mood
. Chaucer.
Fortune is merry,
And in this
And in this
mood
will give us anything. Shakespeare
The desperate recklessness of her
mood
. Hawthorne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mood
MOOD
,Noun.
1.
The form of an argument; the regular determination of propositions according to their quantity, as universal or particular, and their quality, as affirmative or negative.2.
Style of music.3.
The variation of a verb to express manner of action or being. [See Mode.]In the foregoing senses, and in all cases, this word when derived from the Latin modus, ought to be written mode, it being a distinct word from the following.
MOOD
,Noun.
1.
Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as a melancholy mood; an angry mood; a suppliant mood.2.
Anger; heat of temper.[In this sense little used,unless qualified by an adjective.]