| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing. 2. (n.) Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode. 3. (n.) Variety; gradation; degree. 4. (n.) 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. 5. (n.) 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. (n.) Same as Mood. 7. (n.) 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. 8. (n.) A kind of silk. See Alamode, n. |  | Multi-Version Concordance Mode (5 Occurrences) John 19:40 Taking down the body they wrapped it in linen cloths along with the spices, in accordance with the Jewish mode of preparing for burial. (WEY) 1 Corinthians 7:31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away. (WEB) Ephesians 4:22 to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses, (WEY) Judges 13:12 Manoah said, "Now let your words happen. What shall be the ordering of the child, and how shall we do to him?" (See NAS) Ruth 4:7 Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redemption and concerning exchange, to confirm the whole matter: a man drew off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbour, and this was the mode of attestation in Israel. (DBY) |