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Modus vs Mopus - What's the difference?

modus | mopus |

As nouns the difference between modus and mopus

is that modus is (legal|obsolete) the arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance while mopus is (obsolete) a mope; a drone.

modus

English

Noun

(modi)
  • (legal, obsolete) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
  • (legal) 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.
    • (Henry de Bracton)
  • (legal) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi .
    • (Blackstone)
  • * Landor
    • They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus , or composition.

    Related terms

    * modus operandi (Webster 1913) ----

    mopus

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) A mope; a drone.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • I'm grown a mere mopus ; no company comes
    (Webster 1913)