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noun:  (grammar, historical) The members of a school of grammarian philosophy known as modism or speculative grammar, active in northern France, Germany, England, and Denmark in the 13th and 14th centuries. They believed in a tripartite theory of "modes" of meaning in language, relating to being, understanding, and signifying.

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