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\Mood\, n. [The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood
temper. See {Mode}.]
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, hypothetical, etc., without
regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number,
etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the
subjunctive mood. Same as {Mode}.
\Mood\, n. [OE. mood, mod, AS. m[=o]dmind, feeling, heart,
courage; akin to OS. & OFries. m[=o]d, D. moed, OHG. muot, G.
muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. m[=o]?r wrath,
Goth. m[=o]ds.]
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 mood. --Chaucer.
Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us
anything. --Shak.
The desperate recklessness of her mood. --Hawthorne.
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