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modus

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin modus (“measure, manner, mood”). Doublet of mode.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈməʊdəs/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊdəs

Noun

modus (plural modi)

  1. (law, obsolete) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
  2. (law) A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, etc.
  3. (law) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
    • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
      To make a good and sufficient modus, the following rules must be observed
    • 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:
      When, instead either of a certain portion of the produce of land, or of the price of a certain portion, a certain sum of money is to be paid in full compensation for all tax or tythe; the tax becomes, in this case, exactly of the same nature with the land tax of England. It neither rises nor falls with the rent of the land. It neither encourages nor discourages improvement. The tythe in the greater part of those parishes which pay what is called a modus, in lieu of all other tythe is a tax of this kind. During the Mahometan government of Bengal, instead of the payment in kind of the fifth part of the produce, a modus, and, it is said, a very moderate one, was established in the greater part of the districts or zemindaries of the country. Some of the servants of the East India company, under pretence of restoring the public revenue to its proper value, have, in some provinces, exchanged this modus for a payment in kind. Under their management, this change is likely both to discourage cultivation, and to give new opportunities for abuse in the collection of the public revenue, which has fallen very much below what it was said to have been when it first fell under the management of the company. The servants of the company may, perhaps, have profited by the change, but at the expense, it is probable, both of their masters and of the country.
    • 1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Duke de Richelieu, Sir Firebrace Cotes, Lady Glengrin. and Mr. Normanby”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume V (second series, volume II), London: James Duncan, […], →OCLC:
      They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus, or composition.
    • 1917, The English Reports: Exchequer, page 789:
      That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “modus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English modus operandi, from Latin modus operandī.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mo‧dus
  • IPA(key): /ˈmodus/ [ˈmo.d̪ʊs̪]

Noun

módus (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜇᜓᜐ᜔)

  1. ellipsis of modus operandi

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Czech

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Pronunciation

Noun

modus m inan

  1. (statistics) mode (value occurring most frequently in a distribution)
  2. (music) mode

Declension

Declension of modus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin modus. Doublet of mode.

Pronunciation

Noun

modus m (plural modussen or modi, diminutive modusje n)

  1. mode
  2. (grammar) mood
    Synonym: wijs

Finnish

Etymology

< Latin modus

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmodus/, [ˈmo̞dus̠]
  • Rhymes: -odus
  • Syllabification(key): mo‧dus
  • Hyphenation(key): mo‧dus

Noun

modus

  1. (grammar) mood

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

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Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin modus. Doublet of mode, model, modul, and modern.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmo.dʊs]
  • Hyphenation: mo‧dus

Noun

modus (plural modus-modus)

  1. mode,
    1. (mathematics, statistics) the most frequently occurring value in a distribution
    2. (linguistics) mood, a verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality
    3. a particular means of accomplishing something
      Synonym: cara
  2. (colloquial) modus operandi, a known criminal's established habits and mode of work when committing specific offences, especially fraud, matched with characteristics of an unsolved crime to narrow down (limit to a specific list) or profile suspects

Alternative forms

  • mod (Standard Malay)

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