01 a. Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.
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Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.
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Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought, such as the modes of possibility or obligation.(Logic & Metaph.)
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Pertaining to or denoting mood.(Gram.)