Whose high deedes,

Whose hot incursions, and great name in armes,
Holds from all souldiers chiefe maioritie
And militarie title capitall.

Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 2.

Of evill parents an evill generation, a posterity not unlike thir majority.-Brown. Vulgar Errours.

The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term, because it is generally of a larger extension than the minor term, or subject.-Watts. Logick, pt. iii. c. 2.

The proposition which contains the predicate of the conclusion, connected with the middle term, is usually called the major proposition, whereas the minor proposition connects the middle term with the subject of the conclusion. Id. Ib.

The people of the earth, that is, a vast majority of mankind, are represented by Moses, as voluntarily journeying from one part of the earth to another; as voluntarily entering into a resolution of building a tower of prodigious height; as universally engaged in a design so extremely foolish and vain, that Almighty God thought fit to interpose and disappoint them.-Hoadly. The Original of Government. The whole body is supposed, in the first place, to have unanimously consented to be bound by the resolutions of the majority; that majority, in the next place, to have fixed certain fundamental regulations; and then to have constituted, either in one opinion, or in an assembly, (the rule of succession or appointment being at the same time determined,) a standing legislature.

Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. iv. c. 3.

MA'ISTER, MAISTRESS. See MASTER.
MAIZE. Fr. Maïs; Sp. Maiz.

Indian maize hath (of certain) an excellent spirit of nourishment: but it must be thoroughly boyled, and made into a maiz-creame like a barley-creame.

Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 49. The Indians are husbandmen and plant maiz and guinea corn, and some yams and potatoes.

Dampier. Voyages, &c. an. 1681.

On both sides rise groves of poplars and mulberry trees, united by vines interwoven in thick clustering garlands, suspended over rich harvests of wheat and maize all waving to the sea breeze.-Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 11.

MAKE, v.
MAKE, n.
MAKEABLE.

MA KELESS.

MA'KER.
MA'KING, n.

A.S. Mac-ian ; Dut. Maek-en, maken; Ger. Machen; Sw. Maka. Made, i. e. maked, mak'd, mad, or maad, made.

To cause to be, or bring into being, to cause to live or to exist; to beget, to create, to produce, to bring forth, to effect, or be efficient, to conduce.

To cause to be in certain form or fashion, mode or manner; to form, frame, or fashion, to model; to compose or put together, to construct, to fabricate; to shape or mould.

make or compose, (sc.) verses; and a maker,
(Gr. Пoinτns,) a poet, good or bad; a maker, or
composer, or writer, of verses, good or bad: the
quality of good or bad, not essential to the thing,
or the verse, made, or poetry: (see the quotations
from Sidney and B. Jonson; and see POET:) to
make, (sc.) way; to direct the course, to proceed,
to advance.

To make or to match; i. e. to make one or
more fit for another; to fit, to suit, to proportion,
riage. And a make, a fit or suitable companion or
to correspond, to coequal: to fit or suit, in mar-
associate; a consort, a colleague.

To make, combined with other words, has various applications resulting from the force of such combination. Few require explanation.

To make good,-i. e. sound, or secure, or strong; to amend, to repair, to restore; to secure, to strengthen, to establish.

To form or fashion; to delineate, to depicture, to describe, to represent.

To make up,-(sc.) a breach; to amend, to
repair, to heal, to restore; (met.) good will or
kindness; and thus, to reconcile.

To make up,-(sc.) a default or deficiency; to
supply, to complete or fulfil, to accomplish.
To make danger, (facere periculum,)—to make
trial or experiment.

Make-bate, see the quotation from Swift.
Foure kynges heo maden tho in this kyngdome.
R. Gloucester, p. 3.
This was thre thousant, and foure score, and thre ger
From that tho world was first mad.
Id. p. 21.

Whiche ryches the kynge dyd spende vpon the Towre of
London, and some say vpon the makynge of Westmyster
Halle.-R. Brunne, p. 89.

So every good tre makith gode fruytis; but an yvel tree
makith yvel fruytis. A good tree may not make yvel fruytis;
neither an yvel tree may make good fruytis.
Wiclif. Matthew, c. 7.

Yf thou art godis sone, seye that these stones be maad
looves.-Id. Ib. c. 4.

If thou be ye sonne of God commaund yt these stones be
made bread.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

taken her soulis in goode dedis to the feithful maker of
Therefore and thei that suffren bi the wille of God, bi-
nought [creatori.]—Wiclif. 1 Petir, c. 4.

the word and undirstondith and bringith forth fruyt, and
But he that is sowen into good lond: is this that herith
sum makith an hundrid fold, truly another sixtifold, and
another thritti fold.-Id. Matthew, c. 13.

Ye lovers, that can make of sentement,
In this case ought ye be diligent,
To forthren me somewhat in my labour,
Whether ye ben with the lefe or with the flour,
For well I wote, that ye han here beforne
Of making ropen, and had alway the corne,
And I come after, glening here and there.

Chaucer. Prologue to the Legend of Good Women.
And if so fall, the chevetain be take
On eyther side, or elles sleth his make,
No longer shal the tourneynge ylast.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2559.

And for to ben a wif he yaf me leve,
Of indulgence, so n'is it non repreve
To wedden me, if that my make die.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5670.
Who is so trewe and eke so ententif
To kepe him, sike and hole, as is his make.

Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9165.

Right as our first letter is now an A,
In beautie first so stood she makeles,
Her goodly looking gladed all the prees.

Oh! what is man, great Maker of mankind!
That thou to him so great respect doth bear!
That thou adorn'st him with so bright a mind,
Mak'st him a king, and e'en an angel's peer.

Davies. The Immortalitie of the Soul, s. 29
And I still bid the learned maker looke,
On life, and manners, and make those his booke,
Thence draw forth true expressions.
B. Jonson. Horace. Art of Poetry.
The greatest ruyne and destruction of wood in this king-
dome, hath bin the late making of yron and glasses.
Stow. Edw. I. an. 1306.
If he found him to halt in his proofe, he would punish
him as a pickthank makebate.—Holinshed. Ireland, an. 1539. ■
For there must come a time, that shall obtain
Truce for distress; when make-peace Hymen shall
Bring the conjoined adverse pow'rs to bed
And set the crown (made one) upon one head.

My patience

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vi. a
(Because I bear, and bear, and carry all,
And as they say am willing to groan under)
Must be your make-sport now.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Chances, Act iii. sc. 1. There is no greater, at least no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity, than the admirable art and wisdom that discovers itself in the make and constitution, the order and disposition, the ends and uses of all the parts and members of this stately fabrick of heaven and earth.-Ray. On the Creation, pt, i.

It is not to be understood of the accidents themselves that are all makeable and destroyable, generable and corruptible. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 70.

The world a palace was, without a guest,
Till one appears, that must excell the rest :
One! like the author, whose capacious mind
Might, by the glorious work, the maker find.

Waller. Of Divine Love, c. 2. When the cause is extrinsecal, and the effect produc'd by a sensible separation, or juxta-position of discernible parts, we call it making; and such are all artificial things.

Locke. Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 26. s. 2. This sort of outragious party writers I have spoken of above, are like a couple of make-bates who inflame smail quarrels by a thousand stories, and, by keeping friends at a distance, hinder them from coming to a good understanding. Swift. The Examiner, No. 13.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
How passing wonder He, who made him such!
Who centred in our make such strange extremes.

Young. Complaint, Night 1. But if the rude inroad of Gallick tumult, with its sophistical rights of man to falsify the account, and its sword as a make-weight to throw into the scale, shall be introduced into our city by a misguided populace, set on by proud great men, themselves blinded and intoxicated by a frantick ambition, we shall, all of us, perish and be overwhelmed in a common ruin.-Burke. Letter to a Noble Lord.

MAL. Lat. Malè, malus, ill, bad: a prefix with the force of ill, evil, bad, wrong.

MALACISSA'TION. Lat. Malacissare, or malaxare; Gr. Maλaoo-ev, to soften. (See To MALAX.) The word is not uncommon in Bacon, Id. Troil. & Cres. b. i. and is applied by him to denote,—

Anone he lette two cofres make,
Of one semblance, of one make.-Gower. Con. A. b. v.

The high maker of mankynde
By Samuel to Saul badde,

That he shall nothynge ben adrad

Agayne kynge Agag for to fight.-Id. Ib. b. vii.

He taught men the forth drawynge
Of bestaile, and eke the makynge
Of Oxen, and of hors the same,

Howe men hem shulde ride and tame.-Id. Ib. b. v.
And yet hitherto blessed be God, they agree better toge-
ther, the to fal at variance for ye wild wordes of suche a ma-
licious make-bale.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 296.

The Greeks named the poet onτny, which name, as the
most excellent, hath gone through other languages. It
cometh of this word role, to make: wherein I know not
whether by luck or wisdom we English men have mette
Sir P. Sidney. Defence of Poetry.

To make (elliptically) sub. safe or secure,-to preserve, to secure, to keep; to make, (sub. by well the Greeks in calling him a maker. force or against the will,) to force, to compel : to

A softening or mollifying; and, as he expresses it, a suppling of the body.

Let this bath, together with the emplastering and vnction (as before) be renewed every fifth day: this malacissation, or suppling of the body, to be continued for one whole month Bacon. History of Life and Death. MALADY. Fr. Maladie; It. Maladia, malatia; ; Sp. Malatia. Menage quotes from Salmasius, Malatus, qui malè se habet: quem malatum vocamus. It. Malato, i.e. malo affectus. (Skinner.)

Blness; disease, sickness.

O, wist a man how many maladies
Folwen of excesse and of glotonies
He wolde ben the more mesurable
Of his diete, sitting at his table.

Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v 12,441

She saide, tell me thy maladie,

What is thy sore, of whiche thou pleinest ?

Gower. Con. A. b. i. His maladie which still continued upon him, rather increased than diminished, so that he was aduised by pycians to returne to England, in hope that change faire should restore him to health.

Holinshed. Edw. III. an. 1372.

If riches are thus wholly unable of themselves to effect any thing towards a man's relief, under a corporal malady, how can they, as such, deserve the name of felicity.

South, vol. iv. Ser. 11.
With palsied hand should Justice hold the scale,
And o'er a Judge Court-complaisance prevail,
Satire's strong dose the malady requires.

MA'LAPERT.
MALAPE'RTLY.

P. Whitehead. Epistle to Dr. Thomson.,

Skinner thinks most probably from male, and the MALAPERTNESS. Fr. Appert, ( q.d. adperitus,) dexterous, active, prompt; and thus to signify, prompt in speech to an evil excess: but, as the word does not exist compounded in French, it is perhaps of home manufacture; from mal, and pert, (qv.)

Holinshed. Historie of Scotland, an. 1585.

To further this Achitophel unites
The malcontents of all the Israelites.

Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel.

As I have enemies who are apt to pervert every thing I
do or say, I fear they would ascribe the laying down my
paper on such an occasion [the stamp duty] to a spirit of
mulecontentedness.-Spectator, No. 445.

Arms cross'd, brows bent, eyes fix'd, feet marching slow,
A band of malecontents with spleen o'erflow.
Churchill. The Rosciad.

MALE, adj. Macho; Lat. Masculus, mas; the

Fr. Masle; It. Maschio; Sp.

MALE, n.

syllable male in female is corrupted through the
Fr. Femelle, from the Lat. dim. Femella, å little
woman. Mas is of uncertain origin: Scaliger,
(De Causis, lib. iv. c. 79,) affirms that mas was a
word in the ancient Tuscan contracted from
mamers, and that mamers, mavors, and mars, in that
language signified strong, (fortis.) (See MAN.)

Quick to an ill excess, (in speech ;) excessively Mas is opposed to femina, i. e. to that (sex) which
pert, saucy, presumptuous.

Ne malapert, ne renning with your tong.

Chaucer. Court of Love. Therefore me thinketh that thys man is too malaperte, bluntly to enter into God's iudgement, and geue sentence in that manner before he be called to counsell.

Frith. Workes, p. 119. Azzynste anye of whiche twoo reuerent orders, who so be lewde vnreuerently to speake, and malapertlye to ieste and taye, shall playe that parte alone for me. Sir T. More. Workes. p. 868. Then he breaketh forth into open blasphemy and sayth that it behoueth vs to pray vnto saints and that God will els Bet heare vs, for our presumptuous matapertenesse.

Tyndall. Workes, p. 297.

And thus lion-like rising daunted the malapert orator no e with her stately port and maiestical deporture, than with the tartnesse of her princely checkes. Speed. Q. Eliz. an. 1597. All those that were present, with scornfull laughter began east at the herald's presumption, for that he durst so apertlie in the king's presence honour the enemie with so high praise.-Holinshed. Historie of Scotland, an. 1539. And thus his troubles encreased euen through his owne aspertness and brain-sicknesse.-Id. Hen. II. an. 1164. How diametrically opposite the skill of living well, and mazing as a man should do, his affairs in the world, is to

mal-pertness, tricking, or violence learnt amongst ed-boys-Locke. Of Education, s. 70.

MALA'X, v. Gr. Maxaro-ew; Lat. MalaDare; Fr. Malaxer, to blend or beat together, sers; also, to soften, work, or knead unto a Softness; to handle a thing until it be soft. (Cotrare.) See MALACISSATION.

Idirected one of my servants to apply an emplast. diachyl. cam gumini, malazed with unguent dialthææ. Wiseman. Surgery, b. i. c. 9.

MALCONTENT, or

MALECONTENT, adj.

Fr. Mal-content; It.
and Sp. Mal-contento.
Mal or male, in com-
position, from the Lat.
Male, badly, ill; in
male-content it is equi-

MALCONTENT, n.
MALCONTENTED.
MALCONTENTEDNESS.
MALCONTENTMENT.
valent to dis, (qv.)
Discontented, dissatisfied, displeased.

Pat Huddibras, more like a malecontent,
Did see and grieve at his bold fashion;
Hardly could he endure his hardiment;
Yet still he satt, and inly did himselfe torment.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 2.

With which she for the present was appeased,
And yeelded leave, however malcontent,
She inly were and in her mind displeased.

Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 6.

But the most tedious being is that which can unwish content to be nothing, or never to have been, which beyond the male-content of Job, who cursed not the day fe, but his nativity; content to have so far been, as have a title to future being.-Brown. Urne-Burial, c. 5. The king, also, for the better securing of his estate, against us and malcontented subjects, (whereof he saw the e was full.) who might haue their refuge into Scotland, a solemne ambassage vnto James the third, king Stiand, to treate and conclude a peace with him. Bacon, Hen. VII. p. 39.

beareth, which bringeth forth its kind, and is ap-
plied to that (sex) which causeth (the other) to
bear or bring forth.

Have not ye red, for he that made men at the bigynnyng
made hem male and female?-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 19.
For ever malekynde openynge the wombe schalle be clepid
holy to the Lord.-Id. Luke, c. 2.

And eke to know a female from a male.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 5704.
She sigh beastes in her kynd,
The bucke, the doo, the herte, the hynde,
The males go with the female. Gower. Con. A. b. iv.
When they brought forth children they either openly slew
all the males, or very secretly sent them vnto their fathers.
Stow. Memorable Antiquities, p. 20.

And so begirt the dens of those male-dragons,
That through the strongest safety, they shall beg
For mercy at our sword's point.

Beaum. & Fletch. Philaster, Act i. sc. 1.

The youths are (of themselves) hot, violent,
Full of great thought; and that male-spirited dame,
Their mother, slacks no meanes to put them on.

B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act ii.
The keeping up constantly in the world a due numerical
proportion between the sexes of male and female, doth
depend only upon mechanism, it cannot well be conceived,
necessarily infer a superintending providence. For did this
but that in some ages or other there should happen to be all
males, or all females; and so the species fail.
Ray. On the Creation, pt. i.
The glow-worm is a female caterpillar; the male of which
is a fly. They might never be brought together did not this
radiant torch direct the volatile male to his sedentary female.
Paley. Natural Theology, c. 19. s. 5.
MALE-ADMINISTRATION. Male, ill or
bad, and administration, (qv.) and minister.

Bad or ill administration, management, or con-
duct.

I think it is manifest from the practice of the wisest
nations, and who seem to have had the truest notions of
freedom, that when a prince was laid aside for male-admi-
nistration, the nobles and people, if they thought it neces-
sary for the public weal, did resume the administration of
the supreme power, (the power itself having been always in
them,) and did not only alter the succession, but often the
very form of government too; because they believed there
was no natural right in one man to govern another, but that
all was by institution, force, or consent.

Swift. Sentiments of a Church of England Man, s. 2.
The first and principal [high misdemeanor] is the malad-
ministration of such high offices as are in public trust and
employment.-Blackstone, Commentaries, b. iv. c. 9.
MAL-EASE, i. e. disease, ill at ease.

And what mischief & what mal-ese. Crist for man polede.
Piers Plouhman, p. 246.
Thei broughten to him alle that weren of male-eese.

MALE-DICENT.
MALEDICENCY.

MALEDICTION.

Wiclif. Mark, c. 1.
Fr. Male-dicence, malé-
diction; It. Maldicente,
maledizzione; Lat. Male-

dictio, from male-dicere, (male, ill, and dicere, to
speak or say ;) to speak ill (sc. of any one.)
Speaking ill or evil; reviling, slandering.

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curse.

For as many as are vnder ye dedes of the law, are vnder malediccyon.-Bible, 1551. Galathians, c. 3.

And after he sheweth the malediccions that shall fall therevpon.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 139.

Possessed with so furious, so maiedicent, and so slovenly spirits.-Sir E. Sandys. State of Religion.

Imprecations and maledictions were made, according to the custom of the Jews, against those, who should presume to add or alter any thing therein. Grew, Cosmo. Sacra, b. iv. c. 1. s. 27. We are now to have a taste of the maledicency of Luther's spirit from his book against Henry the Eighth." Atterbury. Character of Luther. This is the only way of averting those dreadful maledic tions you have this day [Ash-Wednesday] heard denounced; and it is to bring men to this way, to stamp upon their souls a strong conviction of the danger of sin, and the necessity of a speedy repentance, that our church has thought fit to make` use of such strong and impressive terms.

But fully ne shal it (peine of concupisence) never quenche, that he ne shal somtime be meved in himselfe, but if he were refreined by sikenesse or malefice of sorcerie or cold drinkes.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale, p. 152.

Cōsider our maister Christ which is the very true sonne of
God, & God himselfe, & yet is hee crucified and put to death,
as a seditious persō, as a malefactor.
Barnes. Workes, p. 296.
And I think yes in good faith, yt it were very wel done, &
I wold that euery man would so do indede, that either
shoulde correct heretike or any malefactour els.
Sir T. More. Workes, p. 941.

I haue heard
That guilty creatures sitting at a play,
Haue by the very cunning of the scene,
Bene strooke so to the soule, that presently
They haue proclaim'd their malefactions.

Shakepeare. Hamlet, Act ii. sc. 2

That pompe to all a reverent awe imparts,
And strikes with terrour malefactors' harts.

Stirling. Domes-day. Fourth Houre.
He crammed them with crumbs of benefices
And fil'd their mouthes with meeds of malefices.
Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale.
A third dares not venture to walk alone, for fear he should
meet the devill, a thief, bee sick; fears all old women as
witches, and every black dog or cat he sees, he suspecteth
to be a devil; every person that comes near him is male-
ficiated, every creature, all intend to hurt him, to seek his
ruine!-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 181.

A sixth may be a preceding incapacity of marriage duties; whether natural, or advantageous; whether by way of perpetual maleficiation, or casualty.

Bp. Hall. Cases of Conscience, Dec. 4. c. 10.
For this the malefactor goat was laid
On Bacchus' altar, and his forfeit paid.

Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. ii.

From every species of punishment that has hitherto been devised, from imprisonment and exile, from pain and infamy, malefactors return more hardened in their crimes and more instructed.-Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. iv. c. 9.

Let us apply to the unjust, what we have said of a mis-
chievous or maleficent nation.
Burke. On the Policy of the Allies, App.
MAL-ENGINE. Fr. Malengin, and malengineux.
Ill or evil ingine, or genius; ill or evil device,
contrivance or design.

So maie men knowe, how the floreyn
Was moder first of malengin

And bringer in of alle werre.-Gower. Con. A. b. v.

And this treuse to begyn the xl. day next ensuyng, and within that space euery partie to gyue knowlege to his wtout mallengyn; and if suche copanyes woll nat kepe the peace, let the be at their chose.-Berners. Frois. Cron. vol. i. c. 43. For he so crafty was to forge and face, So light of hand, and nymble of his pace, So smooth of tongue, and subtile in his tale, That could deceive one looking in his face; Therefore by name Malengin they him call.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. S.

All these articles faithfullie, and without male-ingine to performe and fulfill in eurie degree he receiued a solemne oth.-Holinshed. Hen. II. an. 1172.

MALE-VOLENT, adj.

MALE VOLENT, n.

MALEVOLENCE.

MALE VOLENTLY.

MALE VOLOUS.

And as the good writer shall be sure of some to be maliced, so the bad shal neuer escape the biting tongues of slaunderers.-Gascoigne. A General Aduertisement.

Fr. Malivole, mal-yt vueillant, malvueillance; It. Malevolo, malevolenza; Lat. Malevolus, malevol

ens, (malè, ill, and vol-ens, willing, or wishing :) opposed to benevolent.

Willing or wishing, ill, injury, or mischief; feeling, bearing ill-will; malicious and malignant (applied to the will) are words equivalent in usage.

Cotgrave, in v. Malivole, is the first authority for malevolous; and Warburton (perhaps) the last.

The king willing to shew that this their liberallity was very acceptable to him, he called this graunt of money a beneuolence, notwithstanding that many grudged thereat and called it a maleuolence.-Stow. Edw. IV. an. 1473.

And wheras they did slanderously object,

How that they durst not hazard to present

In person their defences, in respect

He was incens'd by some malevolent.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iv.
The oak did not only resent his fall, but vindicate him
from aspersions malevolently cast upon him.
Howell. Vocal Forest.

Nothing but the malevolence, which is too general towards those who excell, could make his company tolerated; but they, with whom he converses, are sure to see some man sacrificed wherever he is admitted, and all the credit he has for wit is owing to the gratification it gives to other men's ili-nature.-Spectator, No. 422.

It [emulation] is, indeed, frequently accompanied with ill-will towards our rivals: but it is the desire of superiority which is the active principle; and the malevolent affection is only a concomitant circumstance.

Stewart. Outlines of Moral Philosophy, § 137.

Malevolence, therefore, commences with some idea of evil, belonging to and connected with the object; and it settles into a permanent hatred of his person, and of every thing relative to him.-Cogan. On the Passions, pt. i. c. 2. § 3.

The serpent, who is described by our historian, as the most crafty of all the animals of the field, and whom the Jews, it should seem, believed to be endowed with reason and speech, and to have lived in great familiarity with man, malevolently persuaded the woman to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Geddes. Trans. of Bible, Pref. Hitherto we see these malevolous critics keep their ground. Warburton. On Prodigies, p. 109.

MALICE, v.
MALICE, n.
MA'LICELESS.
MA'LICING, n.
MALICIOUS.
MALICIOUSLY.

Fr. Malice; It. Malizia; Sp. Malicia; Lat. Malitia: the Greeks used κakia, which Cicero chose to render by vitiositas rather than by malitia, as contrary to virtus; because malitia was the name of a specific vice, vitiositas of all. To malice,To do ill or harm, feel malice or evilness, ill or evil disposition, of mind; to treat with malice or ill-will. Malice, n.

MALICIOUSNESS.

Ill or evil, harm or mischief; evilness; ill-will, ill or evil intention or design, or meaning; a spiteful or rancorous disposition.

That he ne dude it vor non vuel, ne malice.
R. Gloucester, p. 570.
For it suffisith to the day his owne malice.

Wiclif. Matthew, c. 6.
Whan they bene peruerted and tourned in to malice, certes
then they haue forlorne the nature of mankinde.
Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv.

They him assayled so maliciously
With their scourges and strokes bestiall.

The Lamentation of Mary Magdalen.

The houses of robbers are in wealth & prosperitie, & they
maliciouslye medle agaynste God.-Bible, 1551. Job, c. 12.
Punishe him accordynge to his maliciousness.

Id. Ib. Machabees, c. 7.

Who on the other side did seem so farre
From malicing, or grudging his good houre,
That, all he could, he graced him with her,
Ne euer shewed signe of rancour or of iarre.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 10.
They themselves did somewhat malice and envy his glory,
to see him [Coriolanus] thus honoured and passingly
praised.-North. Plutarch, p. 189.

How few are there that have truly maliceless hearts and
find this entire upright affection towards their brethren
attending them in their whole conversation.
Leighton. Com. on Peter, i. 22.

And without any private malicing,
Or public grievance, every good man joy'd
That virtue could come clear to any thing,
And fair deserts to be so fairly paid.

Daniel. A Funeral Poem.

Or as a caste reared high and round
By subtile engins and malitious slight
Is undermined from the lowest ground.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 8.
Maliciously repining still
At Lancaster's successe.

Warner. Albion's England, b. viii. c. 34.
Calling together almost all the nobles of the land to
Stamford on the fiue and twentieth day of May, hee opened
to them the malitiousnes of the Londoners.

Stow. Rich. II. an. 1391.

Angelic forms, and happy spirits, are
Above the malice of perplexing care:
But that's a blessing too sublime, too high
For those who bend beneath mortality.

Such wonder seis'd, though after heaven seen.

The spirit maligne, but much more envy seiz'd
At sight of all this world beheld so faire.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ill.

Cain's enuy was the more vile, and malignant, towards his brother Abel; because, whan his sacrince was better accepted, there was no body to look on.-Bacon. Ess. Envie

The minister as being much nearer both in eye and duty than the magistrate, speeds him betimes to overtake that diffus'd malignance with some gentle potion of admonishment.-Milton. Reason of Church Government, b. ii.

O Saviour abundantly justified in the spirit against all the malignances of men and devils.

Bp. Hall. The Great Mistery of Godliness, s. 7.

If he should still malignantly remaine

Fast foe to th' Plebij, your voyces might

Be curses to yourselues.-Shakes. Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 3.

I come a spie? no, Roderigo, no,

A hater of thy person, a maligner?

So far from that I brought no malice with me,
But rather when I meet thee, tears to soften thee.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Act ii. sc. 2.

It was conceived not to be an epidemicke disease, but to proceed from a malignitie in the constitution of the aire, gathered by the predispositions of seasons: and the speedie cessation declared as much.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 9.

The lighter sort of malignitie turneth but to a erosnesse, or frowardnesse, or aptnesse to oppose, or difficilnesse, or the like, but the deeper sort to envie and meere mischiefe. Id. Ess. Of Goodnesse, and Goodnesse of Nature. He will find misery enough in the distracting cares of settling an ungrounded, odious, detestable interest, so heartily. and so justly maligned, abhorred, and sometimes plotted against.-South, vol. ii. Ser. 1.

I will not deny but that the noxious and malignant plants do many of them discover something in their nature by the sad and melancholick visage of their leaves, flowers and fruit.-Ray. Of the Creation, pt. i.

But, instead thereof, himself [Sir Richard Gourney] with Pomfret. To his Friend under Affliction. great and very notable courage opposing all their fanatic

Like early lovers, whose unpractis'd hearts
Were long the may-game of malicious arts,
When once they find their jealousies were vain,
With double heat renew the fire again.

Dryden. Astræ Redux.
Proud tyrants who maliciously destroy
And ride o'er ruins with malignant joy,
Humbled in dust, soon to their cost shall know
Heaven our avenger, and inankind their foe.

Somervile, Fab. 12.
Malice, on the other hand, is more frequently employed
to express the dispositions of inferior minds, to execute
every purpose of mischief, within the more limited circle of
their abilities.-Cogan. On the Passions, pt. i. c. 2. § 3.
Malicious slander is the relating of either truth or false-
hood, for the purpose of creating misery.

MALIGN, v.
MALIGN, adj.
MALIGNANT, adj.
MALIGNANT, n.
MALIGNANCE.
MALIGNANCY.
MALIGNANTLY,
MALIGNER.
MALIGNITY.
MALIGNLY.

Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. iii. c. 12.

Fr. Maligne; It. Maligno; Sp. Maligno; Lat. Malignus; (opposed to benignus, benign, (qv.) and, consequentially, applied to those qualities or dispositions which are productive of evil; with an evil intent.) To malign,

To cause or produce evil; to injure; to feel or bear evil intent, ill-will, malice. Malignity,-malice, or malevolence, ill-will, ill or evil intention or design :-ill or evil disposition or agency; harmful, pernicious, or destructive influence.

See the quotation from Cogan.

During the great rebellion, Malignant was the name given by the insurgents to the defenders of the church and monarchy, and in that sense it constantly occurs in writings of that period. See the quotation from Clarendon.

Then cometh malignitee, thurgh which a man annoieth his neighbour.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

The queene and the lordes of her bloode highlye maligned
the kynges kinred.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 37.

Such are evermore the unworthye wages of thiys worlde,
malygnelye to blame men for their wel doinge.
Bale. Yet a Course, &c. (1543,) fol. 52.
Though many foes did him maligne therefore
And with unjust detraction him did beard.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 5.

humours both in the court of aldermen and at the common council, grew to be reckoned in the first form of malignants, which was the term they imposed upon all those they meant to render odious to the people.

Clarendon. Civil War, vol. ii. p. 91. Now, this shows the high malignity of fraud and falshood that in the direct and natural course of it, tends to the destruction of common life, by destroying that trust and mutual confidence, that men should have in one another. South, vol. i. Ser. 12.

The broad expance of Heav'a
Their canopy, the ground of damp malign,
Their bed nocturnal.-Hart. Psalm 107 paraphrased.
Yet lest you think I really more than teach,
Or praise malignly arts I cannot reach,
Let me for once presume t' instruct the times,
To know the poet from the man of rhymes.

Pope. Imitations of Horace.
Malignantly delighted, dire Disease
Surveys the glittering pest, and grimly smiles
With hellish glee.

Thompson. Sickness, b. ii. The beneficence and generosity [of Theron], he tells us were not to be equalled: with which, and with some reflections upon the enemies and maligners of Theron, he concludes.-West. The Second Olympic Ode, Arg.

In some connexions, malignity seems rather more pertinently applied to a radical depravity of nature, and malig nancy to indications of this depravity, in temper and conduct in particular instances.-Cogan. On the Passions, c. 2. § 3.

tion, (qv.) Malediction.
MALISON. Opposed to benison or benedic-

& who that wille not so, gaf hem ther malisoun.
R. Brunne, p. 162.
Right so God wol yeve his malison to swiche lordeshipes
as susteine the wickednesse of hir servants, but they come
to amendement.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

MALKIN. Ritson says is properly the dim.
of mal, as wilkin, tomkin, &c.
And see the notes
on the quotation from Shakespeare, and Nares's
Glossary.

Put on the shape of order and humanity,
Or you must marry malkin, the May lady.

Beaum. & Fletch. Mons. Thomas, Act ii. sc. 2.
The kitchin malkin pinnes
Her richest lockram 'bout her reechie necke,
Clamb'ring the walls to eye him.

Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 1
He went, and ere Malkin could well lick her ear,
(For it but the next door was, forsooth,) we were there.
Cotton. Voyage to Ireland, c. 2.

maillet; Fr. Mail, Maglio; Sp. Mallo; Lat. Malleus. In the words gamal-widans Hairtin, contritus in corde, Lye seems to discover the traces of the Goth. verb Gamalwian, conterere, to beat, to bruise: whence with Hicks he would derive the Eng. Mell, mall, Lat. Malleus. See PALL-MALL.

MALLEA'TION.

MALLET.

To beat, to bruise, to crush. Malleable, Fr. Malleable,

That can or may be beaten, (out in extent,) that can or may be extended or expanded (by beating.) Used met. by Bp. Taylor and Burke: pliable, manageable.

The woman first with pekois and with malles,
With great labour beat down the walles.

Lidgate. Story of Thebes, pt. iii. The they malled the horsses legges, that their mightie coursers lefte praunsynge.-Bible, 1551. Judges, c. 5.

And some had malles of lead, wherwith they gaue such strokes, that they beat all doune to the erthe before them.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 422.
Also they had seruantes right well harnessed, bearynge
great malettes of iron and stele, to confounde helmes.
Id. Ib. vol. i. c. 397.

--And with mighty mal

The monster mercilesse him made fall.
Whose fall did neuer foe before behold.

The mallard is the stock from whence our tame breed [of ducks] has probably been produced.

Goldsmith. Animated Nature, b. vii. c. 12.

MALMSEY, or
MALVESEY.

Fr. Malvaisie; It. Mal-
vagia; Sp. Malvasia; vinum
Arvisium, a promontory of the Isle of Chios, now
called Marvisia, or Malvisia.

With him he brought a jubbe of malvesie,
And eke another ful of fine vernage.

Chaucer. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 13,000.

And at night to banquet with dew (as they say) of all maner of fruits and confections, marmelad, succad, grenesynger, comfiettes, sugar-plate, with malmesay & romney cadell and ipocrasie.-Tyndall. Workes, fol. 229.

burnt with sugar, synamond, & cloues, with bastarde, mus

1. Take him on the costard, with the hiltes of thy sword, and then throw him into the malmesy-butte in the nexte roome. Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act. i. sc. 4.

A. S. Mealt; Dut. Moult; Ger.

Malt is consumed, not only in the brewery of beer and ale, but in the manufacture of low wines and spirits. In the distillery of malt-spirits, both the opportunity and the temptation to smuggle are much greater than either in a brewery or in a malt-house.-Smith. Wealth of Nat. b.v. c.2. MALTALENT. malevolence, q. d. malum talentum, (Skinner.) Fr. Mal-talent, malignity, Talenté pour volonté, (Menage,) for the will. (See TALENT.) Mal-talent in Menage, and 2. talentum in Du Cange.

And sore abieth she euerie dele

Her malice, and her male-talent.-Chaucer. R. of the R.
The blynd man fond borowis for all his maletalent.
The Marchantes Second Tale. Imputed to Chaucer.

So forth he went

With heavy looke and lumpish pace, that plaine
In him bewrayed great grudge and maltalent:
His steed eke seem'd t'apply his steps to his intent.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4.
To treat ill; to use ill, to

MALTREAT, v. behave ill towards.

Yorick indeed was never better served in his life;-but it was a little hard to maltreat him after, and plunder him Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. ii. c. 17.

MALT, v.
MALT, n.
Malz, Sw. Malt. Skinner sug-
MALTSTER. gests to melt, liquefacere; and
MALTING, n. Spelman, (in v. Brasium,) malt after he was laid in his grave.
and mealt, q. liquefactum. Wachter objects that
liquefacere is not macerare, to steep or soak, but
to cause to flow or become fluid, which is by no
means the case with malt. Tooke derives it from
mouille, the past part. of mouiller, to wet or to
moisten. "Mouille, anglicized becomes mouilled,

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 7. mouill'd, mould, then moult, mault, malt. Wetting

Milton. Reason of Church Government, b. i. c. 6. I shall less need to instance those other particularities whereby God continues, as by so many arguments of kindress, to sweeten our natures, and make them malleable to the precepts of love and obedience. Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 11. His squire, by often malleations, hammerings, poundings, threshings, might in good time be beaten out into the of a gentleman.-Gaylon. On Don Quixote, (1645,) p. 67. The guide had in readiness a mallet and a chizzel, wherewith he gave them a stroke between the ears, in the joint of the neck, next unto the head, wherewith he killed the beast the elephant] upon the sudden.

Relegh. History of the World, b. v. c. 3. s. 16.

No perjur'd villain nail'd on high,

And pelted in the pillory,

Es face besmear'd, his eyes, his chops,

With rotten eggs and turnip tops,

Was e'er so maul'd.-Somervile. Happy Disappointment. When a man says gold is malleable, he means and would ate something more than this, that what I call gold is sie, (though truely it amounts to no more) but would are this understood, riz. that gold, i. e. what has the real ce of gold, is malleable; which amounts to thus much, malleableness depends on, and is inseparable from the tra essence of gold.-Locke, Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 10. s.17. posing the nominal essence of gold to be body of such car colour and weight, with malleability and fusithe real essence is that constitution of the parts of matter, on which these qualities, and their union, depend. Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 6. s. 6. Tubal Cain was an instructor of every artificer in brass on. or the first that found the art of melting and ing metals, and making them usefull for tools and ecessary implements.

Derham, Physico-Theology, b. v. c. 1. Mark the effect produced on our councils by continued ence and inveterate hostility, we grow more malleable rader their blows.-Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 3. We see no connexion between the colour and the odour of ase, the malleability, fixity, and specific gravity of gold, leike-Belsham. Elements of Philosophy, c. 11. s. 1.

One foot in length next let the mallet be.

Cook. Hesiod. Works & Days, b. ii.

MALLARD. Fr. Malart, which Skinner uld derive from the Dut. Mal, lascivus, and d. naturâ seu indole lascivus:

And meny mannys malt we myes wolde destrye.
Piers Plouhman, p. 11.

Gret soken hath this miller out of doute
With whete and malt, of all the land about.
Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 3986.

My fansie stoode in straunge conciepts, to thriue I wote
not how;

By mils, by making malt, by sheepe and eke by swyne.
Gascoigne. The Greene Knightes Farewell to Fansie.

The best malt is tried by the hardnesse and colour, for if
it looke freshe with a yellow hew, and therto will write like
a piece of chalke, after you haue bitten a kirnell in sunder
in the middest, then you may assure your selfe that it is
dried down.-Holinshed. Description of England, c. 6.

Mall gathereth a sweetnesse to the taste, which appeareth yet more in the wort.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 649.

Barley (as appeareth in the malting) being steeped in water three dayes, and afterwards the water drained from it, and the barley turned upon a drie floar, will sprout.

Id. Ib. § 647.

Afterward they take it out, and laieng it vpon the clene floore on a round heape, it resteth so vntill it be readie to shoote at the root end, which maltsters call comming. Holinshed. Description of England, c. 6.

In the mean time beare with me, gentle reader, (I beseech
thee) that lead thee from the description of the plentiful diet
of our countrie, vnto the fond report of a seruile trade, or
rather from a table delicatelie furnished, into a mustie malt-
house.-Id. Ib.

1 Keep. Peace peace, thou heathen drunkard;
These English are so malt-mad, there's no medling with
'em ;

When they have a fruitful year of barly there,
All the whole island's thus.

One Gunga Govind Sing, a man turned out of his employ ment by Sir John Clavering for malversation in office, is made the corresponding secretary. Burke. On Mr. Fox's East India Bill.

MA'MBLING. Perhaps Mumbling, (qv.)

Far be it from us to allow lukewarmnesse in the matters of God; a disposition which the Almighty professeth so much to hate, that he could rather be content the angell of the church of Laodicea should be quite cold, than in such a mambling of profession.

Bp. Hall. Christian Moderation, b. ii. s. 2.

MAMMA'. Without doubt (says Skinner) the word is formed by Nature herself, since all infants of all nations begin to speak with this word, as the most easy of pronunciation; being, in fact, formed solely by the compression of the lips.

Pleas'd Cupid heard, and check'd his mother's pride,
"And who's blind now, mamma," the urchin cried,
"'Tis Cloe's eye, and cheek, and lip, and breast:
Friend Howard's genius fancied all the rest."

The commentators Shakespeare sayTo hesitate, to stand in suspense. Perhaps mumbling or muttering, as if not knowing what to say or do.

Mr. Steevens produces the instance of mamorie. And for none other cause veraily, but for his sounde and constaunt profession, by ye which whan the people wer in a wauering and mammering what he was, Peter being as the voice of al the Apostles together. pronounced the setece, that Jesus was the Sonne of the liuing God.-Udal. Luke, c. 6. She stode still in a doubte & in a mameryng which way she might take, and fayne woulde take the best. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 760.

Thys deuise though it might serue in England myghte Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Act iii. sc. 6. not haue serued well in many places of Almayne that are Bob. Hang him, rook, hee! why hee has no more judg-peruerted synce, not euen while ye matter was in a mamering before the change was made.-Id. Ib. p. 911.

MAN, n.
MAN, v.
MA'NABLE.
MANFUL.

Goth. Manna; A. S. Man, mon; Dut. Ger. and Sw. Man. In the A. S. also Mag; from the Goth. and A. S. Mag-an, to be able or strong. Mag-en, termination, dropping the

MA'NFULLY. MA'NFULNESS. MANHOOD. leaves mag; mæg-en, mægn, MANKIND, adj. man, (by the mere change of MANKIND, n. And e into a,) gives man. MA'NLESS. Wachter observes, that the MA'NLESSLY. name is, in the opinion of all MA'NLY. from etymologists, derived MA'NLINESS. the powers or faculties of MA'NLING. body and of mind with which MANNICKEN man has been furnished by MA'NNING, n. Nature above all other aniMA'NNISH. mals; although, he adds, a MA'NNISHNESS. dispute may arise concerning the specific source. The Lat. Vir has its application for a similar reason. See VIRILE. Man is in common speech opposed, by sex, to woman; by age, to boy; by kind, to beast.

Manable, equivalent to the Lat. Viripotens. Manly, or manlike,-like a man, becoming, fitting or suiting a man; that is, strong, robust, fearless; with the courage, fortitude, dignity, of, or belonging to, man.

Man is used alone for man-servant.

Man is used in composition; manqueller, -a killer, slayer, slaughterer, &c.

Mankind, the kind of man, is used in old writers as opposed to woman-kind; and to denote qualities opposite to feminine.

Mannish, human, proper to the human kind; opposed to womanish, or feminine; and when applied to woman,-not proper to woman, unbecoming her sex.

p.

101.

This men wende aboute wyde, & mon founde heo non,
Bute faire contre & wylde bestes mony on.
R. Gloucester, p. 14.
Wen ge habbeth forme of men, beth men on alle wise,
And turneth gour hond to menhede.-Id.
Slou to fygte, & quick to fle, & that nys non manhede.
Id. p. 455.
Vor what he ath manlyche bygonne, he yt ath byleuede
Wommanlyche, as vor defaute of wyt of hys heuede.
Id. 457.

And so gret manqualyn, that mony on vnburyed lay.
Id. p. 416.
Muche was the manslagt, that there was ydo.-Id. p. 394.
With oute bitter wonde

But the sonne of man hathe not where on to rest his heed.
Bible, 1551. Matthew, c. 8.
Matheu is understondun bi man, for he dwellith princi-
pali about the manheed of Crist.-Wiclif. Prol. to Matthew.

And mankynde that was slayn bi foure deethis, should be
quikned bi the prechyng of them.-Id. Ib.

Wt oute mercement oth manslaugh.-P. Plouhman, p. 73.
At that tyme wele inouth the Frankis manly sped.
R. Brunne, p. 197.
& now er thise bot mansbond, rascaile of refous.-Id. p.115.
But mannes sone hath not where he schall reste his hed.
Wiclif. Matthew, c. 8.

Walke ghe and stonde ghe in the feith, do ghe manli, and
be ghe coumfortid in the Lord.-Id. 1 Cor. c. 16.

But whanne the benygnyte and the man heed of oure
Sauyour God appeared.-Id. Titus, c. 3.

After that the kindnes & loue of our Sauiour God to man-
warde appeared.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

But sente a manqueller and commaundide that Jones
heed were brought in a disch.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 6.

He was a mansleer fro the begynnyng.-Id. Jon, c. 8.
And he delyuerede to hem hym that for mansleynge &
sedicioun was sent into prisoun, whom thei axiden.
Id. Luke, c. 23.

Ne great emprises for to take in hand,
Sheding of blood, ne manfull hardinesse.
Chaucer. The Complaint of the Black Knight.
In goodness of gentil manlich speech, in wit, and in good
reason of sentence, he passeth al other makers.
Id. The Testament of Loue, b. iii.
Victory, courage, force, and hardinesse,
Good auenture and famous manlinesse.

A Ballad. Imputed to Chaucer.
The proverbe sayeth, "for to don sinne is mannish, but
certes for to persevere long in sinne is worke of the divel."
Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus.

Fy mannish, fy; O nay by God I lie;
Fy fendliche spirit, for I dare well telle,
Though thou here walke, thy spirit is in helle.
Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5202.
Of this cursed sinne of ire cometh eke manslaughter. And
understondeth wel that homicide (that is manslaughter) is
in divers wise.-Id. The Persones Tale.

Then Lisias seinge the discomfortynge of hys men, and the man-lynes of the Jewes, howe they were readye, either to lyue or to dye like men. He went into Antioche and chose oute men of warre.-Bible, 1551. Machabees, c. 4.

The French have a great host in Piedmont, and have won
divers cities, towns, and castles, and have well manned them.
Ascham. Letter to College Friends, 1551.

But like holy spiritual fathers borne againe of God and the
spirite, they resyst manfully first and a great while.
Sir T. More. Workes, p. 557.
Daniell, then Byshoppe of Wynchestre, sent this Wene-
fride to Rome with his letters of commendacio for his man-
fulnesse ther shewed.-Bale. English Votaries, pt. i.

Here are shewed ii. maners of maquelling, one done wyl
lingly and of set purpose, the other vnwyllingly. For euen
he that killeth with ye hand may before God be no man-
quellar.—Bible, 1551. Deuteronomy, c. 19. Note.

Vnderstandynge this, how that the law is not geuen vnto a righteous man, but vnto the vnrighteous and disobedient, &c.; to them that defyle themselues with mankynde, to men-stealers, to lyars, &c.-Id. 1 Timothy, c. 1.

Notwithstandyng, the midwyues feared God and dyd not as the Kyng of Egipte commaunded them: but saued the men-children.-Id. Exodus, c. 1.

Is it a tyme to receaue siluer, and to receaue garments,
oliue trees, vineyards, oxen, shepe, men-seruants, and
mayde-seruants?-Id. 2 Kings, c. 5.

And Clifford, whom no danger yet could dare :
The walls of York first having throughly mann'd,
There plac'd the king.

Drayton. The Miseries of Queen Margaret.
My ships ride in the bay
Ready to disembogue, tack'led, and mann'd
Even to my wishes.
Beaum. & Fletch. The Knight of Malta, Act i. sc. 1.
Otr. That's woman's ripe age; as full as thou art
At one and twenty: she's manable, is she not?

Id. The Maid of the Mill, Act ii. sc. 1.
I kil'd a man, whose death I much repent,
But yet I slew him manfully in fight,"
Without false vantage, or base treachery.
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iv. sc. 1.

Alb. What's the matter, sir?

Lear. Ile tell thee: Life and death! I am asham'd That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus.

Shakespeare. K. Lear, Act i. sc. 4. Gond. So, so, 'tis as 't should be, are women grown so mankind? Must they be wooing?

Beaum. & Fletch. The Woman Hater, Act iii. sc.2.
Ter. O you, whose minds are good,
And have not forc'd all mankind from your brests;
That yet have so much stock of vertue left,
To pittie guiltie States, when they are wretched:
Lend your soft eares to heare, and eyes to weepe,
Deeds done by men, beyond the acts of furies.

B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act v. sc. 10.

But to return to the armada, which we left anchored at Calais from thence, as Sir Walter was wont prettily to say, they were suddenly driven away with squibs, for it was no more but a stratagem of fire boats, manless, and sent upon them by the favour of the wind in the night time, that did put them in terrour, as they cut their cables, and left their anchors in the sea.-Bacon. Of a War with Spain.

She [Andromache] saw her Hector slaine, and bound
T' Achilles chariot; manlessly drag'd to the Grecian fleet.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xxii.

Elizabeth, the next, this falling sceptre hent;
Digressing from her sex, with manlike government,
This island kept in awe. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 17.
Under his forming hands a creature grew,
Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair,
That what seem'd fair in all the world seem'd now
Mean.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. viii.

My friends,

The boy hath taught vs manly duties: Let vs
Finde out the prettiest dazied-plot we can,
And make him with our pickes and partizans
A grave.

Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iv. sc. 3.
Delicious nymph, suppose there were
No honour, or report,

Yet manliness would scorn to wear

The time in idle sport.-Daniel. Ulysses and the Syren.

A man [Horace] so gracious, and in high favour with the Emperour, as Augustus often called him his wittie manling, (for the littleness of his stature ;) and (if we may trust antiquity) had design'd him for a Secretary of Estate; and invited him to the place, which he modestly praied off, and refused.-B. Jonson. Discoveries.

She's as much too manish, as he too womanish.

Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Cure, Act ii. sc. 1.
But alas; the painted faces, and manishnesse, and mon-
strous disguisednese of one sex.-Bp. Hall. Impresse of God.
Rut. Be so, and no more, you man-huxter.
Beaum. & Fletch. The Custom of the Country, Act iv. sc. 1.
Thom. What's the matter?
Whither go all these men-menders, these physicians.
Id. Monsieur Thomas, Act ii. sc. 1.
Cain (envious of the acceptation of his brother's prayer
and sacrifice) slew him, making himself the first manslayer,
and his brother the first martyr.

Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 5. s. 1.
Instant prepare me, on the neighbouring strand,
With twenty chosen mates a vessel mann'd.

Pope. Homer, Odyssey, b. iv. Present order was given for the victualling and manning of ten ships to be sent him.-Oldys. Life of Sir W. Ralegh.

When the proud steed shall know why man restrains
His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains;
When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod,
Is now a victim, and now Egypt's God:
Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend
His actions', passions', beings', use and end.

Pope. Essay on Man, Epist. 1.

For models, made to mend our kind,
To no one clime should be confin'd;
And manly virtue like the sun,
His course of glorious toils should run;
Alike diffusing in his flight,
Congenial joy, and life, and light.

Swift. The Birth of Manly Virtue.
At Barcelona arm'd
For zeal or hire, full many vessels swarm'd
Well mann'd for fight.-Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxxii.
We are taught to follow the heavenly artist, step by step.
first in the production of the inanimate elements, next of
vegetable, and then of animal life, till we come to the
masterpiece of the creation, man endued with reason and
intellect.-Horne. Works, vol. iv. Dis. 1.

Declare, wise Augur, if the Gods decree
The same perdition shall be hurl'd on me,
Which fam'd Aloëus' impious sons befel,
When slain by Phoebus, and condemn'd to hell.
Meantime escape, or manfully withstand,
Vain Seer, the fury of this vengeful hand.

Fawkes. Apollonius Rhodius. Argon. b. il