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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Ionic \I*on"ic\, a. [L. Ionicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? Ionia.]
1. Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.

2. (Arch.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one
of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the
five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth
century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with
spiral volutes. See Illust. of {Capital}.

{Ionic dialect} (Gr. Gram.), a dialect of the Greek language,
used in Ionia. The Homeric poems are written in what is
designated old Ionic, as distinguished from new Ionic, or
Attic, the dialect of all cultivated Greeks in the period
of Athenian prosperity and glory.

{Ionic foot}. (Pros.) See {Ionic}, n., 1.

{Ionic}, or {Ionian}, {mode} (Mus.), an ancient mode,
supposed to correspond with the modern major scale of C.


{Ionic sect}, a sect of philosophers founded by Thales of
Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that
water is the original principle of all things.

{Ionic type}, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the
following line).

Note: This is Nonpareil Ionic.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mode \Mode\, n. [L. modus a measure, due or proper measure,
bound, manner, form; akin to E. mete: cf. F. mode. See
{Mete}, and cf. {Commodious}, {Mood} in grammar, {Modus}.]
1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom;
way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of
dressing.

The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of
doing it may easily be found. --Jer. Taylor.

A table richly spread in regal mode. --Milton.

2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the
phrase the mode.

The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode.
--Macaulay.

3. Variety; gradation; degree. --Pope.

4. (Metaph.) Any combination of qualities or relations,
considered apart from the substance to which they belong,
and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or
state of being; manner or form of arrangement or
manifestation; form, as opposed to {matter}.

Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however
compounded, contain not in them the supposition of
subsisting by themselves, but are considered as
dependencies on, or affections of, substances.
--Locke.

5. (Logic) The form in which the proposition connects the
predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or
necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as
determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent
proposition; mood.

6. (Gram.) Same as {Mood}.

7. (Mus.) The scale as affected by the various positions in
it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic
mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.

Note: In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of
whatever key, are recognized.

8. A kind of silk. See {Alamode}, n.

Syn: Method; manner. See {Method}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Potential \Po*ten"tial\, a. [Cf. F. potentiel. See {Potency}.]
1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result;
efficacious; influential. [Obs.] ``And hath in his effect
a voice potential.'' --Shak.

2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. ``A potential
hero.'' --Carlyle.

Potential existence means merely that the thing may
be at ome time; actual existence, that it now is.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.

{Potential cautery}. See under {Cautery}.

{Potential energy}. (Mech.) See the Note under {Energy}.

{Potential mood}, or {mode} (Gram.), that form of the verb
which is used to express possibility, liberty, power,
will, obligation, or necessity, by the use of may, can,
must, might, could, would, or should; as, I may go; he can
write.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

mode
n 1: a manner of performance; "a manner of living"; "in the
characteristic New York style"; "a way of life" [syn: {manner},
{style}, {way}, {fashion}]
2: a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched
from keyboard to voice mode"
3: a classification of propositions on the basis of whether
they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [syn:
{modality}]
4: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
conceived by the speaker [syn: {mood}, {modality}]
5: any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes
within an octave [syn: {musical mode}]
6: the most frequent value of a random variable [syn: {modal
value}]


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