Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mood"

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

Mood \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}.

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

Mood \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

mood
n 1: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of
feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on
his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn: {temper},
{humor}, {humour}]
2: the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of
opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since
the last election" [syn: {climate}]
3: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
conceived by the speaker [syn: {mode}, {modality}]


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