Moderation

1. n. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; — usually contracted to mods.
2. n. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
3. n. The state or quality of being mmoderate.
4. n. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.