Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MOD'ER-A-TOR
MOD'ER-A-TOR, n.
- He or that which moderates or restrains. Contemplation is an excellent moderator of the passions.
- The person who presides over a meeting or assembly of people to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings and declare the vote; as, the moderator of a town meeting or of a society. Watts.
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