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Modal adj.

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.

(Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought, such as the modes of possibility or obligation.

(Gram.) Pertaining to or denoting mood.

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Etymology of 'Modal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... principle which answers in a general way to the law of continuity in the inorganic world, or rather is so analogous to it that both may fairly be expressed by the Leibnitzian axiom, Natura non agit saltatim. As an axiom or philosophical principle, used to test modal laws or hypotheses, this in strictness belongs only to physics. In the investigation of Nature at large, at least in the organic world, nobody would undertake to apply this principle as a test of the validity of any theory or supposed law. But ...

— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 34, August, 1860 • Various

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