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Modal   /mˈoʊdəl/   Listen
Modal

noun
1.
An auxiliary verb (such as 'can' or 'will') that is used to express modality.  Synonyms: modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb, modal verb.



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... 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 naturalists of ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray



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