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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 642 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MODERATOR (from See also:Lat. moderare, to impose a modus, limit)  , a See also:judge or See also:umpire, one who acts the See also:part of mediator, and so a See also:term used of the See also:person chosen to be See also:president of a See also:meeting (as in See also:America, of a See also:town meeting) . In See also:academic use, the word was formerly applied to the public officer who presided over the exercises, &c., prescribed forcandidates for degrees in the university See also:schools; it is now used at See also:Cambridge of one or two See also:officers who are appointed each See also:year to preside over the examination for the mathematical tripos, at See also:Oxford of an examiner in the first public examination, known as " moderations," and at See also:Dublin of a See also:candidate for honours in the examination for degree of See also:Bachelor of Arts . In the Presbyterian churches the name is applied to the See also:minister elected to preside over ecclesiastical meetings or assemblies, as the See also:synod, See also:presbytery or See also:general ' Some authorities (of whom See also:Tiraboschi was the first) attribute its See also:desertion entirely to a See also:succession of inundations, denying that it was even among the cities destroyed by See also:Attila.See also:assembly (see See also:PRESBYTERIANISM) . The name was historically given to a party of See also:people who joined together to oppose the "Regulators," another party who professed to administer See also:justice in the Carolinas (1767–1771) . Technically, the word is also used of a particular See also:form of See also:lamp, in which the flow of oil from the See also:reservoir to the burner is regulated by a See also:mechanical arrangement to which the name is applied .

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