T M ΜΟΝ At whiche tyme of burying, and also the monethis mynde, I wil that myn executrice doo cause to be caried from Londen xii newe torches, there beyng redy made, to burn in the tymes of the saide burying and monethes mynde. Fabyan. His Will. The Romans using then the ancient computation of the year, had such uncertainty and alteration of the moneth and times, that the sacrifices and yearly feasts came, by little and little, to seasons contrary for the purpose they were artained-North. Plutarch, p. 612. And eke the moone her hastie steedes did stay, And didst, O monthly virgin, thou delay Spenser. Virgile. Gnat. Have you ships at sea, Beaum. & Fletch. The Noble Gentlemen, Act i. sc. 1. And valesse some casuall or sudden accident fall out, they make their assemblies on certaine daies, either in the first quarter or full moone; thinking that to be the luckiest time to begin their workes. Greseway. Tacitus, p. 261. The Description of Germanie. Night would invade, but there the neighbouring moon Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. When with his mooned train Drayton. Noah's Flood. While thus he spake, th' angelic squadron bright, Whereby they may discover a better face of heaven; some lesser planets moving round about the sun, and the moonets about Saturn and Jupiter. Bp. Hall. The Free Prisoner, s. 2. At which time would I, being but a moonish youth, greeue, edeminate, changeable, longing, and liking. Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act iii. sc. 2. And all ye barking foules yet never seene, Bp. Hall. Elegy on Dr. Whitaker. Stand in the plague of custome, and permit For that I am some twelue or fourteene mooneshines, The moony standards of proud Ottoman Du Bartas. The Second Day of the First Week. Im betrayed by keeping company Wih men-like (moon-like] men of inconstancie. Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act iv. sc. 3. And that by certain signs we may presage Of beats, and rains, and winds' impetuous rage, The Sovereign of the heavens has set on high The moon, to mark the changes of the sky. Behold the place, where if a poet MONUMENT. MOO Fr. Monument; It. and MONUMENTAL. Sp. Monumento; Lat. MoMONUMENTALLY. numentum ; scriptum aut factum memoriæ causa, (Var. lib. iii.) quidquid est From monere,-to call to mind, to remind, (says Vossius,) is monimen, and anciently monumen, whence monumentum. Any thing made or done, with a meaning or intention to call to mind or memory, to remind, in remembrance or memory. Any thing raised or erected in memory of. And no doubt for our false fayth in visityng the monumentes of Christ, therefore hath God also destroyed them, and geuen the place vnder the infidels.-Tyndall. Workes, p.283. But wicked Time, that all good thoughts doth waste, And works of noblest wits to nought outweare, That famous moniment hath quite defaste. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 2. Some others were new driven, and distent Into great ingowes and to wedges square; Some in round plates withouten moniment. Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 7. Nor will I take the pains to look Thy memory Beaum. & Fletch. The Knight of Malta, Activ. sc. 1. And was it not worthy his being hated of his bretheren, and being sold out of his country, to give such a noble example of fidelity and chastity, as to stand a monument of it in holy writ, for the admiration and imitation of all following ages.-South, vol. viii. Ser. 11. Great Cæsar sits sublime upon his throne, Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. ix. His [Owen's] epitaph is engraved in a plate of brass, and fixed under his monumental image, formed and erected by that most exquisite artist, Mr. Epiphanius Evesham, in the cathedral of St. Paul.-Walpole. Anec. of Paint. vol. ii. c. 1. MO'NY, ter. Vossius thinks, the Lat. Monium is mera productio vocis (See MATRIMONY.) It is, probably, the same word, with the same testament, alimony, aliment, differ merely in their meaning, as men, ment-um : thus, testimony, application. See MENT, and MONUMENT. MOOD. See MODE. MOOD.} Ger. Goth. and A. S. Mod; ર Mo'ODY. Mut; Dut. Moed; Sw. Mod; from Goth. Miton, cogitare, (Wachter,) whence the Ger. Muten; Dut. Moed-en, cogitare, animo volvere, animare; the A. S. have also Mod-ian, Dryden. Virgil. Georgies, b. i. | superbire, modig, moody, superbus; modignesse, moodiness, superbia. Mood is applied toThe general or particular temper or disposition of mind; the prevailing disposition: to self-will, And tips with silver all the walls.-Pope. Horace, Ep. 7. sullenness, sadness, resentment, ill-humour, anger, Sin description, he might show it; Te how the moon-beam trembling falls, About the spring (if ancient fame say true) The night comes on, we eager to pursue The Lorian squadrons nor the javelin wield, I went to see him in a moonshiny night.-Addison. Id. Homer. Iliad, b. xiii. was the sun, the owl forsook his bower, The on-struck prophet felt the madding hour. Pope. The Dunciad, b. iv. Tebans and scimitars in carnage roll'd, Mickle. Almada Hill. Blair. The Grave. Ta bat a night, a long and moonless night; Warton. On the Birth of the Prince of Wales. or angriness. Tho Brut a wok of hys slep, & al this vnder stod, Ac that that meved me. and my mod chaungede, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1762. Gower. Con. 4. b. v. A weeping mourner, smote with anguish sore Warton. Monody written near Stratford upon Avon. And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.-Gray, Ode on a Prosp. of Eton Coll. A. S. Mor; Ger. Mor; Dut. Moer; Sw. Maer. (See MARSH.) The A. S. Mor, Scotch Mure, is applied to heath land, or that kind of boggy land in which the heath grows. In Galyce the ryuers be troublous and coolde, bycause of the snowes that dyscende downe frome the mountaynes, wherby they and theyr horses, after theyr trauayle all the daye in the hote sone, shall be morfoundred or they be ware. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 80. Thereto the frogs bred in the slimie scouring Of the moist moores, their iarring voices bent. Spenser, Virgile. Gnat. There now no river's course is to be seene, But moorish fennes, and marshes ever greene. Id. The Ruines of Time. Hanse, a dapper moreland lad, Who near their crystal springs as in those wastes they play'd, Bewitch'd the wanton heart of that delicious maid: Which instantly was turn'd so much from being coy That she might seem to doat upon the moorish boy. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 12. In process of time [they] became to be quite overgrowne with earth and moulds; which moulds wanting their due sadnesse, are now turned into moorie plots. Holinshed. Description of England, c. 22. When, as from snow-crown'd Skidow's lofty cliffs, MOOR, v. Drayton. Barons' Wars, b. vi. Fr. Amarrer; Sp. Amarrar; MO'ORING, n.Dut. Meeren her schip. detain, or from Mare, q.d. in mari sistere, (SkinFr. Marer,-either from the Lat. Morari, to ner.) The Dut. Meerren is also remorari, retardare. Fr. Marer, to moor or be moored; to be fas- As seamen tell, Oldys. Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, p. 209. MOOT, v. A. S. Mot, ge-mot, mot-heal; Moor, n. from the Goth. and A. S. verb Mo'OTABLE. Mot-ian, to meet, convenire, to convene, to come or bring together. Mot is a meeting or convention, (sc.) for the discussion of public affairs. Michel-gemot, the great meetSpenser. Faerie Queene, b. 1. c. 2. ing; wittena-gemote,—the meeting of wise men. 1311 Hence, to moot, is (consequentially)—- Here one mopishly stupid, and so fixed to his posture, as if he were a breathing statue. Bp. Hall. The Spirituale Bedleem, Sol. 29. What goodness can there be in the world without modeThe kyng com to London, with lawe to mote in benke. ration, whether in the use of God's creatures, or in our own R. Brunne, p. 58. disposition and carriage? Without this, justice is no other Mede in that mote hall tho. on men of lawe gan wynke. than cruell rigour; mercy, unjust remissnesse; pleasure, Piers Plouhman, p. 71. brutish sensuality; love, frenzy; anger, fury; sorrow, desperate mopishnesse; joy, distempered wildnesse; knowledge, Thr motyng his atte the barre.-Id. Ib. saucy curiosity; piety, superstition; care, wracking disThanne thei ledden Jhesus to Caifas into the moot halle, traction; courage, mad rashnesse. and it was eerli.-Wiclif. Jon, c. 18. Id. Christian Moderation, b. í. s. 1. What a mop-eyed ass was I, I could not know her. Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Act iii. sc. 3. No meagre, muse-rid mope, adust and thin, In a dun night gown of his own loose skin. But such a bulk as no twelve bards could raise, Twelve starvelling bards of these degenerate days. But full of museful mopings, which presage The loss of reason, and conclude in rage. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. i. Are these the comforts of a wife, This careful, cloister'd, moaping life. Whe you haue ther red what I say; the may you reade here his answer, wherin he declareth the matter, & argueth it by cases of law, much after the maner of a motable case. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 944. Stand sure and take good foting, And let be al your moting. Skelton. The Boke of Colin Clout. I meane the pleading vsed in Court & Chancery called motes, where fyrst a cause is appoynted to be moted by certayne yong me, conteinynge some doubtefull controuersy, which is in stede of the hede of a declamation called thema. Sir T. Elyot. The Governovr, b. i. c. 14. There is a difference betweene mooting and pleading, betweene fencing and fighting.-B. Jonson. Discoveries. We see orators have their declamations, lawyers have their moots, logicians their sophisms. Bacon. Of the Pacification of the Church. MOP. Mops and mows, and to and mow, appear to be familiar expressions with our old dramatic writers; the former word (Mop) applied to some action of mocking, and sometimes confounded with mock; but the origin is not known. The Sw. has Mopa, illudere; but that itself requires to be accounted for. What mops and mows it makes! high! how it frisketh! Is't not a fairy, or some small hobgoblin? Pope. Dunciad, b. ii. Brooke. Fables. The Sparrow and the Dove. It directs him not to shut himself up in a cloister, alone, there to mope and moan away his life; but to walk abroad, to behold the things which are in heaven and earth, and to give glory to him who made them. Horne. Works, vol. v. Dis. 23. Whilst wand'ring talk, and mopings wild, presage Moonstruck illusion, and conclude in rage. MO'RAL, adj. MO'RAL, n. MO'RAL, v. MO'RALLER. MO'RALIST. MORALITY. MO'RALIZE, v. MORALIZATION. MOʻRALLY. Hart. The Courtier & Prince. Fr. Moral, moralizer; It. Morale, moralizzare; Sp.Moral, moralizar; Lat. Moralis, from mos, which Martinius thinks is from meare, to go, -signifying via, a way. See IMMORAL. A moral man is a man whose way of life, whose mode or manner of acting, is guided or governed by the laws of natural or revealed religion. A moral act, an act consistent with those laws. And thus morality, generally, Obedience to, consistency with, those laws which Iago. Come, you are too senere a moraller. Shakespeare. Othello, Act i. sc. 3 The wisest and most resolute moralist that ever was, lookt pale when hee should taste of his hemlock; and by his timorousnesse made sport to those that envied his speculations. Bp. Hall. Heaven upon Earth, s. 3. Nature surely (if she will be studied) is the best moralist; and hath much good counsel hidden in her bosome. Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 77. The end of morality, is to procure the affections to obey reason, and not to invade it. Bacon. On the Advancement of Learning, b. ii. Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song. Spenser, Faerie Queene, b. i. s. 1. That which is said of the elephant, that being guiltie of his deformitie, he cannot abide to looke on his owne face in the water, (but seckes for troubled and muddy channels,) we see well morallized in men of evill conscience, who know their soules are so filthy, that they dare not so much as view them.-Bp. Hall. Med. & Vowes, c. 2. s. 4. A book of moralizations upon Ovid's Metamorphoses. Baker. Hen. V. an. 1422. If, then, the original itself was extant for so long a time, it was easie to compare the copies with it, and morally impossible but that the curiosity or religious care of many, should make them to do it.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. iv. c. 1. And he that shall collect all the moral rules of the philosophers, and compare them with those contained in the New Testament, will find them to come short of the moralily delivered by our Saviour, and taught by his Apostles; a college made up for the most part of ignorant but inspired fishermen.-Locke. The Reasonableness of Christianity, &c. I am bold to think, that morality is capable of demonstration, as well as mathematicks; since the precise real essence of the things moral words stand for, may be perfectly known; and so the congruity or incongruity of the things themselves be certainly discovered; in which consists perfect knowledge.-Id. Hum. Underst. b. iii. e. 11. 8, 16, She sigh'd; she smil'd: and, to the flowers Pointing, the lovely moralist said: See, friend, in some few fleeting hours, See yonder, what a change is made.-Prior. Garland. A moral agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be deno. minated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty. Edwards. On the Freedom of the Will, pt. i. s.5 Moral philosophy, morality, ethics, casuistry, natural teaches men their duty and the reasons of it. Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Act iv. sc. 2. guide or govern the mode or manner of action of law, mean all the same thing, namely, that science which men as social beings. And hence the science of morals is MOP. Perhaps a mob; (see Moв ;) and MO'PPET.so called from the looseness, movableness of the parts. Moppet, the diminutive, applied to a puppet, plaything, fondling. The water, that was employed to wash them, being thinly spread with a mop, would presently congeal. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 654. Ant. Did one ever hear a little moppet argue so perversly against so good a cause! MOPE, v. MO'PING, n. MO'PISH. MO'PISHLY. MO'PISHNESS. Dryden. Don Sebastian, Act iii. sc. 2. Skinner says, Obstupescere, mutum et ignavum incedere; to move silent and sluggish. To move silent and sluggish; to be or cause to be silent and sluggish, inert, inactive; stupify, to be or become stupid. to At few wordes, it is good to haue very litle or nought to doe with men, & speake very few wordes with them & those full of sobernes, honestie, and wisedome: nor thou shalt not thereof be reckoned the more moope and foole but the more wise.-Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, c.11. See where yon little moping lamb of mine Itself hath tangled in a crawling briar. Drayton. Pastorals, Ecl. 6. He is bewitch'd or mop'd, or his brains melted, Could he find no body to fall in love with. Beaum. & Fletch. Humorous Lieutenant, Act iv. sc. 6. On a trice, so please you, Euen in a dreame, were we deuided from them, And were brought moaping hither. Shakespeare. Tempest, Act v. sc. 1. Dæmoniac phrenzie, moaping melancholie, And moon-struck madness.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. xi. Many men are undone by this means, moped, and so dejected, that they are never to be recovered. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 150. They will be scoffing, insulting over their inferiours, till they have made by their humoring or gulling, ex stulto insanum: a mope, or a noddy, and all make themselves merry. Id. Ib. p. 149. [They are] generally traduced as a sort of mopish and unsociable creatures.-Killingbeck. Sermons, p. 348, That science which teaches men their duty, and the reasons of it. Moral is also distinguished from physical or mathematical; (e. g.) a moral certainty,-from a certainty arising from the evidences of the senses, or from mathematical demonstration. See the second quotation from Locke. To moralize,-to be or cause to be moral; or of a moral nature or character; to treat or deliberate morally or upon morals or moral topics. O morall Gower, this booke I direct Chaucer. The Testament of Creseide. Forsoth o maner gentrie is for to preise, that appareilleth mannes corage with vertues and moralitees, and maketh him Christes child.-Id. The Persones Tale. Or though a man of high or low degree, Or of Seneca the moralitee.-Id. Ballad of Good Counsail. Of hem, that thilke merell drowe.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii. They do constur in diuers seses almost euery text in scripture, sometyme after the letter, sometime moral, & sometime otherwise, and al to the profit and edifyig of the hearers.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 322. By the tyme that the chylde doth come to xvii. yeres of age, to the intent his courage be brydled wyth reason, it were nedfull to rede vnto hym some warkis of phylosophy, spicially that parte that maye enforme hym vnto vertuous maners, whiche parte of phylosophy is called moral. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 11. It is more commendable, and also comodious, if the players haue red the moralization of the chesse, and wha they playe do thynke vpon it: which bokes be in Englysh. Id. Ib. b. i. c. 26. The wiser and more morale part of mankind were forced to set up laws and punishments, to keep the generallity of mankind in some tolerable order. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 355. Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act ii. sc. 7. Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. i. c. 1. [The love of God] is one of those many peculiar circumstances which so eminently distinguish the doctrines of the Gospel from the dry unanimated precepts of the ancient heathen moralists.-Porteus, vol. i. Ser. 1. Morality is the rule which teaches us to live soberly and honestly. It hath four chief virtues, which moral writers have well explained; justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude. Bp. Horne. Works, vol. vi. Charge to the Clergy of Norwich. Political reason is a computing principle; adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, morally, and not metaphysically or mathematically, true moral demonstrations. Burke. French Revolution. of writing marish, or marsh. MORA'SS, seems to be merely a different way For as the inference is fair, affirmatively deduced from the action to the organ, that they have eyes, because they ee, so it is also from the organ to the action, that they have eyes, therefore some sight designed; if we take the intention of nature in every species, and except the casual impediments, or morbosities in individuals. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 18. The first was with base dunghill rags yclad, Thomson. Castle of Indolence. I should be most gladly satisfied about this remedy, whether or no it do indeed, either proscribe the morbific matter, er so alter its texture as to make it harmless. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 90. Whilst the distempers of a relaxed fibre prognosticate and prepare all the morbid force of convulsion in the body of the state, the steadiness of the physician is overpowered by the very aspect of the disease. Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1. MORDA'CIOUS. MORDICANT. Fr. Mordacité; It. Mordace, mordacità; Sp. Mordace, mordaz, mordazidad; Lat. Mordar, from mordere, to bite, which Cæsar Scaliger composes of the Gr. μopov edew, partem edere; and Martinius, of μeip-e edwv, edens dividere. MORDICANCY. MORDICA'TION. MORDICATIVE. MO'RDANT. Biting, nipping, or pinching sharply, keenly. Chaucer uses mordant, (Fr. Mordant, biting,) for tongue of a buckle. The mourdant wrought in noble gise, Was of a stone ful precious.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. Such things as have very thin parts, yet notwithstanding are without all acrimony, or mordacity, are very good sallets. Bacon. Hist. of Life & Death, s. 25. It [salt] in physick is held for mordant, burning, caustike, and mundificative.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxx. c. 10. Wise phisicians should with all diligence inquire, what mples nature yieldeth, that have extream subtile parts, without any mordication or acrimony. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 692. Whereas the conceits and jests of Aristophanes are bitter and sharp withal, carrying with them a mordicatire quality which doth bite, sting and exulcerate wheresoever they light. Holland. Plutarch, p. 774. He [Theon] said; That the air in the city of Delphos as thick, fast, strong and vehement withall, by reason of the reflexion and repercussion of the mountains round bet it, and besides, mordicative, as witnesseth the speedy caction of meat that it causeth.-Id. Ib. p. 968. Many of these [composts] are not only sensibly hot, but mordacious and burning.-Evelyn. Earth. The young seedling leaves and roots, raised on the monthly hot-bed, almost the whole year round, affording a very rateful mordacity, and sufficiently attemper the cooler ingredients-Id. Acetaria, (51.) The mordicant and pungent, and such as repress or discuss fatulency, revive the spirits, and aid concoction, with such ate and take off the keenness, mollitie and reconcile the more harsh and churlish.-Id. Ib. The mordicaney thus allay'd be sure to make the mortar very clean, after having beaten Indian capsicum, before you Camp any thing in it else.-Id. Ib. MORE, adj. MORE, ad. A. S. Ma, mare; Ger. Mer; Dut. Meer; Sw. Mer. Skinner MORE, V. VOL. II Dr. Jamieson asserts that this hypothesis labours Greater, larger; added. More, n.— A greater, a larger, (sc. number, quantity, in The fyfte tyme won Engelond tho fole of Normandie, Id. p. 7. MOR For fals semblant hath ever mo Gower. Con. 4. b ii. What he will make lesse, he lesseth, And lightfoote Nymphes, can chace the lingring night Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. June. Shakespeare. K. John, Act ii. sc. 1. Now when the lords and barons of the realme Id. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 3. Of Faery lond yet if he more inquyre, will be formed upon the noun,- To root or root up; get up the root. Gower's Hir front was narrow, hir lockes hore A man ypassid yowith, and is wythout lore, The Marchantes Second Tale. Imputed to Chaucer. Spenser. Faerie Queene, c. 7. Of Mutabilitie. Agayne he sent othir seruauntes, moo then the first: and morigeration; Lat. Morigerari, (morem gerere,) they serued them lykewyse.-Bible, 1551. Ib. And if Sathanas hath risen agens himself he is departid : Wiclif. Mark, c. 3. Morcouer and hath led hethene into the temple and hath Moreouer also he hathe broughte Grekes into the temple, A poure persone dwelling up on lond, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 705. Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 14,192. Id. Rom. of the Rose. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2803. This lustie peine [loue] hath ouertake That with his doughter thei shuld go.-Id. Ib. to comply. Compliance, acquiescence, conformity. Than the armies that wente fro Rome, were as well disciplined and morigerate, as the schooles of the philosophiers, that were in Grece.-Golden Boke, Let. 2. Not that I can tax or condemn the morigeration or application of learned men to men of fortune. Bacon. Of Learning, b. i. MO'RION, or Fr. Morion; It. Morione; MU'RRION. Sp. Morrion. Bochart, says Menage from Maurus; a Maurorum usu, because used by the Moors. It is more probably from the A. S. Myrr-an, to dispel, to repel, (sc.) a blow at the head; and hence applied to Armour (for the head), a burganet. And see Then to herselfe she gives her Ægide shield, Spenser. Muiopotmos. Philopoemen reformed all this, perswading them to use the pike and shield instead of the little target, spear, or borestaff, and to put good morians, or burganets, on their heads." North. Plutarch, p. 309. And when thy noble body is in durance, Beaum. & Fletch. Philaster, Act iv. sc. 1. Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, Bp. Hall, b. iii. Sat 4 MO'RMAL. Low Lat. Malum-mortuum; Fr. Maux-mortz, is a kind of disease in the feet and shins. And Mr. Tyrwhitt thinks that Chaucer meant by mormal_ A cancer or gangrene. But gret harm was it, as it thought me Chaucer. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, v. 388. Bothe himself and all hys secte, were fayne to seeke some plasters of false gloses, to heale the foule marmole of theyr scabbed shynnes.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1088. And thus good readers you see, that wher as his marmole is more the an had full brode: this plaster of his passeth not the bredth of a peny.-Id. Ib. p. 1089. They hold it [sesama] excellant to heale the old cancerous and maligne ulsers, named cacoëthe, i. morimals. Holland. Plinie, b. xx. c. 25. And the old mor-mal on his shin, B. Jonson. Sad Shepherd, Act ii. sc. 2. MO'RMO. Gr. Mopuw, pro larva et terriculum accipitur, a sort of goblin or spectre. But to have been sick of the fright, to have lavished our constancy, courage, conscience and all, in Indian sacrifice to a sprite or mormo, ne noceat, to escape not a real evil, but only an apprehension or terror, this is a piece of the most destructive weariness, the ασοφων ακρίβεια, the greatest simplicity that can be.-Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 577. MORN. Goth. Maurgins; A. S. Mergen, MO'RNING. morgen, marne; Dut. Morgen; Ger. MO'RROW. The elder etymologists have nothing to say respecting these words; Tooke's researches are most happy. Morrow, morn, and morning, were in old English written Morew, morewn, morewende; in A. S. Merien, mergen, merne; margen, marne, or morgen, morn; and he believes them to be the past tense and past part. of the Goth. and A. S. verb Merjan, merran, mirran, myrran, to dissipate, to disperse, to spread abroad, to scatter; morr, the regular past tense of this verb, pronounced and written Morwe, morew, and subsequently morowe, morrow, by adding the participial termination, en, merg-en, merien, mer'n; marg-en, mar'n, morg-en, morn; or morewen, morew'n, mor'n. Morrow and morn then have the same meaning, viz. dissipated, dispersed, (sub.) clouds or darkness, whose dispersion, or the time when they are dispersed, these words express. Morning, the pres. part. Myrrende, in old English Morewende, (ende, as usual, converted into ing,) as in Chaucer-morwening; thence morewing, morwing, morning. Morning is, by usage, applied to a considerable portion of the day succeeding the dispersion of darkness; and morrow, to-morrow, to the whole day next following to-day. Aureli & Uter, the twei brethren corteys, Right in the mornyng in aldermost nede Ac on a May morwenyng. on Malverne hulles Id. Crede. And counselide hem of Ihesu of the lawe of Moises and profetis fro the morewe til to euentide.-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 28. And preached vnto them of Jesu; bothe out of the law of Moses, & also out of the prophetes, euen from mornynge to night.-Bible, 1551. Ib. But whanne the morowetide was come, alle the princis and prestis and the eldere men of the puple token counseil agens Jhesus.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 27. But natheles it was so faire a sight, Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,712. But by the cause that they shulden rise The fourth watch was next to the mornyng, and was called Is overcast with mists-Carew. Upon the King's Sickness. Bp. Hall. Hard Texts of Scripture. Hosea, vi. 3. Id. Mother Hubberd's Tale. To-morrow's action! can that hoary wisdom, B. Jonson. Irene, Act iii. sc. 2. Still night succeeds, A soften'd shade, and saturated earth MORO'SE. Beattie. The Minstrel, b. i. Self-willed, and, consequentially, For a certain singulare precise morositie (thei) wolde apere Well might I complain of this sullenness and morosity. He [Mr. Hobbs] spent too much time in thinking, and too His learning produced not a morose self-complacency, but a lovely affability, and a desire to teach others the glad tidings of joy.-Horne. Works, vol. iv. Dis. 26. Many, in all ages, have followed St. John into the wilderness, and chosen retirement, not out of any moroseness of temper, or misanthropy, but that they might give themselves, without let or molestation, to the pursuit of divine Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2492. knowledge.-Id. Ib. vol. vi. On St. John the Baptist. 1314 MORPHEW, v. Low Lat. Morphea; Fr. MORPHEW, n. Morphée; It. Morfea; from Morbus, morbeus, morbea, morvea, morfea,-Menage, who calls it A kind of scab, or scabbiness. Whose band-leese bonnet vailes his o'ergrown chin Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 5. Let the glasse of the law be brought once and set before us we shall then see the shamefull wrinkles, and foule morphews of our soules.-Id. The Fall of Pride. The root of capers is singular good to take away the white spotted morphew, [vitiligo.]—Holland. Plinie, b. xx. c. 15. MORRIS. Fr. Moresque; It. Moresca; Sp. MOR'ISCO. Morisco. Sir T. More writesMorish pikes; since called Morris. And the one or two of those wretches would stand behynd those morish pikes and draw the pore sowles by the members towarde theim-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 258. You see before they are married, what moriscoes, Beaum. & Fletch. The Wild Goose Chase, Act v. sc. 2. Which the French men perceiving, they entered the gallies again with morris-pikes and began a new fight. Baker. Hen. VIII. an. 1514. Butler. Upon Human Learning, pt. ii. MORROW. Briefly, that which is commonly received, and whereof there be so many fragments preserved in England; is not only no horn, but a substance harder then a bone, that is, the tooth of a morse or sea-horse? Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 23. p. 204. For that which is commonly called a sea-horse, is properly called a morse, and makes not out that shape. Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 24. p. 207. Mossel he dude in hys mouth, ac the kyng yt blessed er I praye God if it wer so I strangle of this brede. R. Brunne, p. 55. She lette no morsel from hire lippes falle. Chaucer. Canterbury Tales, Prol. v. 128. Which dedly made the mankynde.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. Should prove a bitter morsel, and his bane, Id. Ib. b. x. That all invention is formed by the morsure of two or more of these animals [bees] upon certain capillary nerves, which proceed from thence, whereof three branches spread into the tongue and two into the right hand. Swift. On the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. For after they [kine] have swallowed one morsel if you look stedfastly upon their throat, you will soon see another mouth, which it could not do unless it were impelled by the ascend and run pretty swiftly all along the throat up to the successive contraction or peristaltic motion of the gullet, continually following it.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. The master of the feast MORTAL, adj. MORTAL, n. MORTALITY. MO'RTALLY. MORTALLIZE, U. MORTIFY, v. Fr. Mortel, mortifier; It. Mortal, mortificar; Lat. MORTIFYING, n. Destructive, or able to destroy, to kill, or cause to die; deadly: also opposed to divine or immortal and consequentially, human. To mortify To die, or cause to die, to destroy or lose the vital powers, the health, the strength; to decay, to corrupt: (met.) to subdue, to subject, to debase, to humiliate; to feel humiliation, or the rexation of being humiliated; to vex. Fulfilled of warre and mortality, Hir fame abitte, but all is vanity. A Balade to K. Henry the Fourth. Imputed to Chaucer. For here shul ye see by experience, That this quicksilver I wol mortifie, Right in your sight anon withouten lie. Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,594. Sothly the good werkes that he did before that he fell in dedy sinne, ben all mortified. astoned, and dulled by the eft aning-Id. The Persones Tale. And thys mortall muste putte on immortalyte. of the fleshly woorkes.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 700. Bodies are fed with things of mortal kind, Bat truth, which is eternal. feeds the mind; But why so vainly time do I bestow, The base abuse of this vile world to chide? Whose blinded judgment ev'ry hour doth show What folly weak mortality doth guide. Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. iv. A mortuary was thus paid: the lord of the fee had the best beast of the defunct, by way of an heriot, for the sup port of his body against secular enemies; and the parson of the parish had the second as a mortuary for defending his soul against his spiritual adversaries. Spelman. De Sepultura. Ah! while I gaze, pale Cynthia fades, MORTGAGE, v. Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. iv. Fr. Mort-gage, or mortgaige, dead pledge, (see the quotation from Blackstone,) pignus seu vadi monium mortuum: because that which is put in Parnell. A Night Piece, on Death. pledge is by law, in case of nonpayment at the time limited, for ever dead and gone from the mortgager, (Blackstone.) Generally The mortal-temper'd steel deceiv'd the hand; any other vice, was ever mortified by corporal disciplines. Dr. Sherlock having spent all his time in holy and chaste Pope. The happy Life of a Country Parson. It is remarkable, however, that whatever mortifications That which destroys, breaks to pieces, bruises, or that in which any thing is broken, bruised. or crushed, or pounded. And, afterwards (as Wachter observes) applied to a kind of gun from the resemblance in shape. It is also applied to the composition used in "Wad segge ge," quoth Merlyn, "of this newe thinge, Chaucer. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, v. 386. So brycke was their stone and slyme was theyr morter. Adrian the Emperour, mortally envied poets, and painters, they raised a strong battery, and planted upon it a mortar- In the one place the mortalmesse, in the other the misery of their wounds wasted them all. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 46. His [Saint Anthony] life was austere, and mortifying. Indeed this is the way to beguile the eyes of men like Bp. Taylor. Artificial Handsomeness, p. 114. Looke into the melancholike cels of some austere recluses; you may finde perhaps an hairecloth, or a whip, or an bearde; but shew mee true mortification, the power of Bp. Hall. Quo Vadis? s 20. tall renovation of the soul. In Greece they have a cast by themselves, to temper and A mortress made with the brawn of capons stamped and and muscles, may serve also for the comminution and con coction of the meat in the stomach (as some not without Cooke. Hesiod. Works & Days, b. ii. To pledge, to stake; to assign or convey as security for repayment. For thy shulde euery good man knowė Whiche if he breke, it is falsehode.-Gower, Con. A. b.vii. Through wastefull pride and wanton riotise. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5. I knew her own subjects, the citizens of London, would not lend her Majesty money, without lands in mortgage. State Trials. Sir Walter Ralegh, an. 1603. But mortuum vadium, a dead pledge, mortgage, (which is much more common than the other,) it is when a man borrows of another a specific sum, (e. g. 2001.) and grants him an estate in fee, on condition that if he, the mortgagor, shall repay the mortgagee the said sum of 2007. on a certain day mentioned in the deed, that then the mortgagor may reenter on the estate so granted in pledge. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 10. When this resource is exhausted, and it becomes necessary, in order to raise money, to assign or mortgage some particular branch of the public revenue for the payment of the debt, government has upon different occasions done this in two different ways. Sometimes it has made this assignment or mortgage for a short period of time only, a year, or a few years, for example; and sometimes for perpetuity. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 3. MORTISE, v. Fr. Mortaise. Foramen quo MO'RTISE, n. - coarticulantur et coaptantur MORTISING, n. ligna in ædificiis; the hole, or bore, by which beams are jointed and fitted or fastened together, (Skinner.) Menage derives from mordere, to bite. A mortised lock is a lock let or placed in a hole cut into the wood to receive and hold it. When he thought himselfe surely mortised in a ferme rocke & immouable foudatyon, sodaynely wyth a trimbelynge quickesande & vnstedfaste ground [he, H. 4 was] like to haue sonken or ben ouerthrowen.-Hall. Hen. IV. an. 1. It is a massie wheele Fixt on the sommet of the highest mount, The admirable accommodation of the several parts of the human body to make up one continuum, yet consisting of divers parts, distinct in their individuals and kinds, the mortising of the bones, &c.-Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 327. That so the other end of the beam sinking upon the hinder pile of frails, and pressing them, may make way for the putting in the wedges into the great mortise, and discharge the wedge in the little mortise, which, whilst they were placing the frails upon the pedestals, supported the beam. Locke. Observations upon Olives, A mortice and tenon, or ball and socket joint, is wanted at the hip, that not only the progressive step may be provided for, but the interval between the limbs may be enlarged or contracted at pleasure.-Paley. Nat. Theol. c. 8. MO'RTMAIN. Fr. Mort-maine; in mortua manu, a dead hand. Coke, in his 1st Institute, conjectures various reasons for the appellation. See the quotation from Blackstone. And this statute is not made onelye for the aduantage of differentlye agaynst all mortmayn. the temporal lordes agaynst ye cleargie, but it is made inSir T. More. Workes, p. 333. What liberall revenues, rich maintenances were then put into [mort-maine] the dead hand of the Church Bp. Hall. The Impresse of God, pt. ii. All purchases made by corporate bodies being said to be purchases in mortmain, in mortua manu; for the reason of which appellation Sir Edward Coke offers many conjectures: |