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Definition of Moods

1. mood [n] - See also: mood

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moods

Literary usage of Moods

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"Direct and Indirect moods — principle of. — That the two terms should hold ... Direct and indirect moods in each. 1. Blunder about definition of major and ..."

2. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"The Syntax of the Verb relates chiefly to the use of the moods (which express ... 6); and the moods sometimes express time (compare subjunctive in future ..."

3. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"The Determination of the Valid moods hi Each of the Figures. — We have now to apply these special canons in order to determine what moods are valid in each ..."

4. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Examples for by Goold Brown (1851)
"Verbs have modifications of four Kinds; namely, moods Tenses, Persons. and Numbers. moods. moods are different forms of the verb, each of which expresses ..."

5. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.. by Robert Adam, Royal Society of Edinburgh (1790)
"As 1 had not the good fortune to meet with any account of the moods of verbs, which appeared to me complete or ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Disturbances of the Affective Life (Feelings, Emotions and moods) The intimate association of affective or emotional states with the intellectual activities ..."

7. Latin Grammar by Joseph Henry Allen (1887)
"The syntax of the Verb relates chiefly to the use of the moods (expressing the ... The moods, except the Infinitive, are only specialized tenses; ..."

8. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"The moods in Questions. — The moods and tenses of direct questions are the same as those used in other ... The moods are the same as in questions (1555). ..."

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