He [John Dowland] enjoyed the same place also when King James I. came to the crown, being then esteemed a most admirable lutinist.-Wood. Fasti Oxon. vol. i.

The line of Atreus will I sing;

To Cadmus will I tune the string:
But, as from string to string I move,
My late will only sound of love.

LUX, v
LU XATED.

LUXATION.

the Lat. Luzare.

Philips. Anacreon, Ode i

Fr. Luration, luxer, to loose, or put out of joint; also to be out of joint, or out of due place; from

For the surgical application, see the second quotation from Wiseman.

And if the straining or luxation of one joynt can so afflict us, what shall the racking of the whole body, and the torturing of the soul.-Bp. Hall. Heaven upon Earth, s. 16.

If thou wert laid up of the gout, or some rupture, or laration of some limb, thou wouldst not complain to keep in; thy pain would make thee insensible of the trouble of thy confinement.—Id. The Balm of Gilead.

My feet, through wine unfaithful to their weight,
Betray'd me tumbling from a towery height,
Staggering I reel'd, and as I reel'd, I fell,
Lur'd the neck joint-my soul descends to Hell.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xi. The bone luxated, maketh compression on the neighbouring parts, whither it slippeth; and accordingly as those parts are of more or less sense, so are the pains and accidents that attend it.-Wiseman. Surgery, b. vii. c. 2.

When therefore two bones, which being naturally united make up a joint, are separated from each other, we call it a laration.-Id. Ib.

LUXURY. LUXURIANT. LUXURIANCE. LUXURIANCY. LUXURIANTLY. LUXURIATE, U. LUXURIETY. LUXURIOUS.

Fr. Luxure; It. Lussuria; Sp. Luxuria; Lat. Luxuria, from luxus, and that from luere;-luxus is equivalent to dissolutus, and luxuries, the vice of a dissolute mind. Propriè luxus et luxuries significant profusam impenLUXURIOUSLY. sam. Luxury then means,LUXURIOUSNESS. Looseness or freedom, (sc.) from restraint; exuberance; lavishness; looseness of desire; lustfulness; looseness or freedom of indulgence; voluptuousness; exuberance, abundance, copiousness.

Euery jururious turmentour, dare dooen all felonie vn-
punished.
Chaucer. Boecius, b. i.

And thus therefore
The philosopher vpon this thinge
Writte, and counseiled to a kynge,
That he the forfete of luxure
Shall tempre.

Gower. Con. A. b. vii.

Firm and erect towards heaven bound, Though it with beauteous leaves and pleasant fruit be crown'd,

It lies, deform'd and rotting, on the ground.

See vines luxuriant verdur'd leaves display, Supporting tendrils curling all the way.

The juicy groves Put forth their buds, unfolding by degrees, Till the whole leafy forest stands display'd, In full luxuriance to the sighing gales.

Thomson. Spring.

In wilde array luxuriantly he pours A crowd of words, and opens all his stores. Pitt. Vida's Art of Poetry, b. iii. Alexander the Great reflecting on his friends degenerating into sloth and luxury, told them, that it was a most slavish thing to luxuriate, and a most royal thing to labour. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 19. Hence, to a botanist, the luxury of a garden, where every thing is arranged with a view to his favourite study.

Stewart. Philos. Essays, Ess. i. c. 6.

But grace abus'd brings forth the foulest deeds,
As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds.

Cowper. Expostulation.
Poets no less celebrated for the luxuriancy, than for the
elegance of their genius,-all writers of the New Comedy.
Observer, No. 149.
Till wealth and conquest into slaves refin'd
The proud luxurious masters of mankind.
Littleton. To Dr. Ayscough.

One may observe a kind of luxuriety in the description, which the holy historian gives of the transport of the men of Judah upon this occasion.-Sterne. Works, vol. iv. Ser. 11.

Cowley. On the Death of Mrs. Katherine Philips. But as they were luxurious in the price, so were they likewise in the worke itself, which many times was vious and beastly.-Hakewill. Apologie, b. iv. s 10. To spend the time luxuriously Becomes not men of worth.

Daniel. Ulysses and the Syren. But above all things the exceeding luxuriousness of this gluttonous age, wherein we press nature with overweighty burdens.—Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 5. s. 5.

Lurury does not consist in the innocent enjoyment of any of the good things which God has created to be received with thankfulness; but in the wasteful abuse of them to vicious purposes, in ways inconsistent with sobriety, justice, or charity. Clarke, vol. ii. Ser. 114

Water, a watery liquor.

And (so) the moisture, which the thirsty earth
Sucks from the sea, to fill her empty veins,
From out her womb at last doth take a birth,
And runs a lymph along the grassy plains.

Davies. The Immortality of the Soul, s. 30.

Arbuthnot. Of Aliments, c. 1. Prop. 5.

Horace either is or feigns himself lymphatick, and shews what an effect the vision of the Nymphs and Bacchus had on him.-Shaftesbury. Concerning Enthusiasm, s. 6.

All nations have their lymphaticks of some kind or an other.-Id. Ib.

Tho' thirst were e'er so resolute, avoid

The sordid lake, and all such drowsy floods
As fill from Lethe Belgia's slow canals;
till the power of tire
Has from profane embraces disengag'd
The violated lymph.

Armstrong. The Art of Preserving Health, b. ii. The lymphatic system, or the nervous system, may be more subtile and intricate; nay, it is possible that in their structure they may be even more artificial than the sanguiferous; but we do not know so much about them.

Paley. Natural Theology, c. 10. Such as the circulation of the blood through every part of it; its lymphatics, exhalents, absorbents; its excretions and integuments.-Id. Ib.

LYNX. Fr. Lyncée; It. Lincè; Sp. Lynce; Lat. Lynx; Gr. Avy§, so called from λvêŋ, light. Merlyne meneth of.-R. Gloucester, p. 522. Note. Me troweth he was the lynx al thyng thurlyng, of whiche

But as experience with rare proofes hath showne
To look on others, we have linx-his eyes.
Stirling. Choruses in the Alexandrian Tragedy, Chor. 5.
Brethren, your not omniscient eyes shall see that my
eyes are so lyncean, as to see you proudly misconfident.
Bp. Hall. An Answer to the Vindication, &c.

And when sweet sleep his heavy eyes had seiz'd,
The tyrant with his steel attempts his breast.
Him straight a lynx's shape the goddess gives,
And home the youth her sacred dragons drives.

LYRE. LY'RICK, adj. LY'RICKS. LY'RIST. datur voces.

Maynwaring. Ovid. Metam. b. v. Fr. Lyre; It. Lira; Sp. Lyra; Lat. Lyra; Gr. Aupa, perhaps (Vossius) from Ave, solvere, dissolvere, quia in multas divi

Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iv.

As Chiron mollify'd his cruel mind
With art, and taught his warlike hands to wind
The silver strings of his melodious lyre.

Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. i. The following ode is an attempt towards restoring the regularity of the ancient lyric poetry, which seems to be altogether forgotten, or unknown by our English writers.

Congreve. Discourse on the Pindaric Ode.

Or else at wakes with Joan and Hodge rejoice,
Where D'Urfey's lyrics swell in every voice.

Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Wednesday While they behold the hills, the woods, the streams, which so often inspired the Roman lyrist; they may conceive, and even share his enthusiasm.

Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 6. His [Eschylus] versification with the intermixture of lyric composition is more various than that of Shakspeare. Observer, No. 70.

Lumps, or gobbets of boyled paste served up in butter, and strewed over with spice and grated cheese. A macaronick,-a confused heap or huddle of many several things.'

Macaronian or Macaronique poetry,-see the quotation from Cambridge.

For the application (perhaps the original one)

M

Normanz and Burgolons, with lance, suerd, and mace.
R. Brunne, p. 71.
With mighty maces the bones they to breste.
Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2614.
Fayre Iolen hath set the mace [sc. the club of Hercules]
Besides her beddes head aboue.-Gower. Con. A. b. v.
Souldiers

Deferre the spoile of the citie vntill night:
For with these borne before vs, in steed of maces,
Will we ride through the streets.

Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Hen. VI. Act iv. sc. 7.
High on a throne, tremendous to behold,
Stern Minos waves a mace of burnish'd gold.
Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xi.
John Bishop of Lincoln, with purse-bearer, mace-bearer,
six boy-angels playing on musical instruments, and six
Latin verses. A very neat and curious print.
Walpole. Catalogue of Engravers, vol. v.

Fr. Macérer; It. Macerare; Sp. Macerar; Lat. Macerare; macrum reddere, attenuare; to make lean, or lank; macer, from the Gr. Maxрos, long. (See To EMACIATE.) Macerate is extended to things which are rendered soft and tender, i. e. the juices of which are all well explains the Fr. Macérer

This is the design and the mischievous issue, which to cover and to propagate, the cunning machinator pretends the exaltation of the freeness of that grace which he designs to dishonour and defeat.-Glanvill, Ser. 10.

Of Venus and Juno, Jupiter and Mercury, I say nothing, for they were all machining work.-Dryden. Encis, Ded.

The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem -Pope. R. of the Lock. To A. Fermor.

A great part of the machines made use of in those manufactures in which labour is most subdivided, were originally the inventions of common workmen, who, being each of them employed in some very simple operation, naturally turned their thoughts towards finding out easier and readier methods of performing it.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 1.

They [the moderate] are persons who want not the dispo sitions, but the energy and vigour that is necessary for great evil machinations.-Burke. To a Mem. of the Nat. Assembly.

He might then contemplate with inexpressible pleasure and satisfaction, observing the neatness and perfection of the machinery, how exactly and constantly every wheel

performed the part to which it was adapted and designed, and the regularity and uniformity of the hand's motion produced thereby.-Horne. Newton & Hutchinson.

from Spectator: the more modern usage is A spruce beau, a fopling. Donne appears to

He doth learn to make strange sauces, to eat anchovies, maccaroni, &c.-B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revels.

I mean those circumforaneous wits, whom every nation calls by the name of that dish of meat which it loves best. In Holland they are termed pickled herrings; in France, jean pottages; in Italy, maccaronies; and in Great Britain, Jack puddings.-Spectator, No. 47.

Ye travell'd tribe, ye macaroni train,

Of French friseurs, and nosegays, justly vain ;
Who take a trip to Paris once a year,

To dress, and look like aukward Frenchmen here;
Lend me your hands.

Goldsmith. Epilogue, spoken by Mrs. Bulkley.

The macaronian is a kind of burlesque poetry, consisting of a jumble of words of different languages, with words of the vulgar tongue latinized, and latin words modernized. Cambridge. The Scribleriad, b. ii. Note 16.

In the preface, or Apologetica (of Phantasia Macaronica) our author [Coccaio] gives an account of this new species of Poetry, since called the macaronic.

Warton. History of English Poetry, vol. ii.

p.

557.

MACE. Fr. Macis ; It. Mace, macis; Sp. Macias, macis; Lat. Macis; Gr. Makep. See the quotations from Brown and Ray.

The fruit hereof [nutmeg] consisteth of four parts; the first or outward part is a thick and carnous covering like that of a walnut, the second a dry and flosculous coat, commonly called mace.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 6.

In the nutmeg, another tegument is added, besides all these, viz. the mace, between the green pericarpium and the hard shell immediately enclosing the kernel. Ray. On the Creation, pt. i.

"To make lean; to mortifie, weaken, bring down, punish, or pull under, the body; to suppress or subdue the lusts thereof by abstinence, or hard fare; also, to allay, soak or steep in liquor."

No such sad cares, as wont to macerate
And rend the greedie mindes of covetous men,
Do ever creepe into the shepherd's den.

Spenser. Virgil. Gnat.

Philip, Earl of Arundel, condemned in the year 1589, the queen had all this while spared, but now death would spare him no longer, having since that time been wholly given to contemplation, and macerated himself in a strict course of religion.-Baker. Queen Elizabeth, an. 1595.

I speake of a true and serious maceration of our bodies, by an absolute and totall refraining from sustenance. Bp. Hall. Sermon preached to his Majesty, Mar. 30, 1628. For such [unactively cold and grossly humid] is the blood of the envious, the cause of that palenesse and macilency in their looks and constitutions.-Sandys. Ovid, Pref.

The saliva distilling continually, serves well to macerate and temper our meat, and make it fit to be chewed and swallowed.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii.

Dandelion, dens leonis, cordrilla, mascerated in several waters, to extract the bitterness, tho' somewhat opening, is very wholesome.-Evelyn. Acetaria.

Eaten in excess [onions] are said to offend the head and eyes, unless edulcorated with a gentle maceration.-Id. Ib. The nuts should be macerated in water before they are put in the ground.-Grainger. The Sugar-Cane, Note. MACHINATE, v. MACHINA'TION, v. MA'CHINATOR. MACHINE. MACHINERY. MACHINIST.

Fr. Machiner; It. Macchinare; Sp. Machinar; Lat. Machinari, which Vossius derives from the Gr. Medelai, excogitare, to find out, (A. S. Mac-ian,

to make,) by thought, by ingenuity. See to ExCOGITATE, and ENGINE: to which latter word machine is equivalent.

A tool or instrument made, invented or contrived by thought, by ingenuity; an engine, whether of war or peace, for useful or destructive purposes.

To machinate,-to contrive, to scheme, to devise. - a name in common use at the

Hii alizte with drawe suerd, with matis mani on, & with mani an hard stroc, &c. Id. p. 536.

Machinist,

Has the insufficiency of machinists hitherto disgraced the contrivances to keep pace with?

Stevens. General Nole on Macbeth.

MACKEREL. Fr. Maquereau; Dut. Mackereel; of unsettled etymology. (See Menage.) Some think-a maculis, from its spots.

These fishes, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their severall leaders and captaines and before them all, the maquerels lead the way; whiche, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest.

Holland. Plinie, b. ix. c. 15.

On Monday evening the butler stirring the water to take out some of the mackarels, found the water very luminous, and the fish shining through the water, as adding much to the light, which the water yielded.

Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 395. Next morn they rose, and set up every sail; The wind was fair, but blew a mackrel gale.

Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. This fish is easily taken by a bait, but the best time is during a fresh gale of wind, which is thence called a mackrel gale. Pennant. British Zoology. The Common Mackrel. MA'CROCOSM. Compounded of the Gr. Makρos, large, and kоopos, the world.

The quotation from Boyle explains the opposite usages of macrocosm and microcosm.

As for Paracelsus, certainly he is injurious to man, if (as some eminent chymists expound him) he calls a man a microcosm, because his body is really made up of all the several kinds of creatures the macrocosm or greater world consists of, and so is but a model or epitome of the universe. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 54.

He forms, pervades, directs the whole;
Not like the macrocosm's imag'd soul,
But provident of endless good,

By ways nor seen nor understood
Which e'en his angels vainly might explore.

Jones. An Epode. From the Tragedy of Schrad. MACTA'TION. Lat. Mactare, atum, to slay. Here they call Cain's cffering, which is described and allowed to be the first fruits of the ground only, a sacrifice or mactation.-Shukford. On the Creation, Pref.

MA'CULATE, v. MA'CULATE, adj.

MACULATION.

How long will you machinate! Persecute with causeless hate!

Sandys. Psalm, p. 96. This is the stale and known machination of him whose true title is, the accuser of the bretheren.

spot.

Bp. Hall. Christian Moderation, b. ii. s. 15. Rule 11.

Fr. Maculer, It. Maculare; Sp. Macular; Lat. Maculare, from macula, a

To spot or distain with spots or specks; to stain.

MA'GIC, adj.

Μά'σις, η.
MAGICAL.

MAG

Fr. Magique; It. Magica; Sp. Magica: Lat. Magica; Gr. Μαγικη, μαγεια, from μα MAGICALLY. and this from the Persian. yos, MAGICIAN. The first quotation from RaMA'GI. legh explains the ancient usage of the word by the Persians, and the second, the common modern application.

But thurgh his magike for a day or tway,

It semed all the rockes were away.

MAG

In al that lond magician was non,
That could expounen what this lettre ment.
But Daniel expounded it anon.

Jason, whiche sigh his fader olde,
Upon Medea made hym bolde

Of art magike, whiche she couth,
And praieth hir, that his father's youth

She wolde make ayenewarde newe.-Gower. Con. A. b. v.
The gods and thee, dere sister, now I call,
In witnes, and thy hed to me so sweete,
To magike arts against my will I bend.

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv.
Untill the hardy mayd (with loue to frend)
First entering, the dreadfull Mage there found
Depe busied 'bout worke of wondrous end,

And writing straunge characters on the grownd,
With which the stubborne feendes he to his service
bownd.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 3.

It is confessed by all of understanding, that a magician (according to the Persian word) is no other than Divinorum cultor el interpres, a studious observer and expounder of divine things and the art itself (I mean the art of natural magick) no other, Quam naturalis philosophiæ absoluta consummatio, than the absolute perfection of natural philosophy.

Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 11. s. 3.

And that distill'd by magicke flights,
Shall raise such artificial sprights,
As by the strength of their illusion,
Shall draw him on to his confusion.

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iii. sc. 3.
Ven. Ile humbly signifie what in his name,
That magicall word of warre, we haue effected.

Id. Antony & Cleopatra, Act iii. sc. 1.

Medicines were called pharmaca, which anciently signified poysons: because it was believed, that unless they were magically used, they would do more hurt than good. Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. iv. c. 8. He is called a magician now-a-days who having entered league with the devil, useth his help to any matter.

Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 11. s. 2.

They by the altar stand, while with loose hair
The magic prophetess begins her prayer.

Waller. Virgil. Æneis, b. iv.

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Glover. The Athenaid, b. xv. The claim of infallibility, or even of authority to prescribe magisterially to the opinions and consciences of men, whether in an individual, or in assemblies and collections of men, is never to be admitted.-Bp. Horsley, vol. ii. Ser. 15. MAGISTRACY. Fr. Magistrat, magisMAGISTRATE. trature; It. Magistrato; Lat. MAGISTRA TIck. Sp. Magistrado; Magistratus, from magistrare, regere, temperare, to rule; and this from magister, which (says Vossius) is either from magis, greater, as minister from minus, or rather from the Gr. MeyιOTOS, the greatest, whence magistrates are by the Greeks called μεγιστάνες. But see MAGNIFY.

Magistracy, the office or station of magistrate, i. e. of one greater than, or superior to, placed over or above, in power or authority over, others in society, or social body, in a state; one appointed or invested with authority to interpret and execute the laws or some portion of them.

And Pilat clepide togidere the princis of prestis and the magestratis of the puple.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 23.

They which haue such auctorities to them comitted, may be called inferiour gouernors, hauynge respect to theyr office or dueties, wherin is also a representation of gouernance: all be it they be named in Latine magistratus. And herafter I intende to cal them magistrates, lackynge an other more conuenient worde in Englyshe.

Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 3.

Thus far hath been considered chiefly the power of kings and magistrates; how it was and is originally the people's, and by them conferr'd in trust only to be employ'd to the common peace and benefit; with liberty therfore and right remaining in them to reassume it to themselves, if by kings or magistrates it be abus'd: or to dispose of it by any alteration, as they shall judge most conducing to the public good. Milton. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.

So long therefore (for the resemblance which dominion hath) do those that are powerful retain the image of God, as according to his commandments they exercise the office or magistracy to which they are called.

Ralegh History of the World, b. i. c. 2. s. 2.

Both civil and religious acts study to conciliate to themselves a majesty and reverence, by habits and ornaments; by comely robes and costly vests; which, though they are

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not of the internal and essential glory which is in magistratick or ecclesiastick power and order, (which are both divine,) yet are so far not only convenient, but almost necessary, as they help to keep both laws and religion from contempt, and from that vulgar insolence to which seditious and atheistical humours are subject.

Bp. Taylor. Artificial Handsomeness, p. 169. Magistrales are to govern according to those instructions of Job, c. xxix. 14. I put on righteousness, and it clotheth me; my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out. Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 49.

Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of state resides; others are subordinate, deriving all their authority from the supreme magistrate, accountable to him for their conduct, and acting in an inferior secondary sphere-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 2.

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men. Low Lat. Magnalis, magna

MAGNALITY.

Id. Ib.

lia, from the Lat. Magnus, great. Something great; greater than ordinary or

usual.

Although perhaps too greedy of magnalities, we are apt to make but favourable experiments concerning welcome truthes, and much desired verities.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3.

Though honest minds do glorifie God hereby; yet do they most powerfully magnifie him, and are to be looked on with another eye, who demonstratively set forth its magnalities, who not from postulated or precarious inferences, intreat a courteous assent; but from experiments and undeniable effects, enforce the wonder of its maker.-Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 4 It. Fr. Magnanime ; Magnanimo; Sp. Magnanimo; Lat. Magnani

MAGNANIMITY. MAGNA'NIMOUS.

MAGNANIMOUSLY.

mus, i.e. magnus animus; of or pertaining to, having See MAGNIFY. or possessing, a great mind.

Greatness of mind; loftiness of thought, feeling, or sentiment: opposed to pusillanimity, and mean spiritedness. See the quotation from Sir T. Elyot. Right so men gostly, in this maiden free Sawen of faith the magnanimitie.

Chaucer. The Second Nonnes Tale, v. 15,578.

Magnanimitie is a vertue moche commendable, and may be in this wyse defyned, that it is an excellencie of mynde, concernynge thinges of great importaunce or estimation, doinge al thynge, that is vertuous, for the acheuinge of honour.-Sir T. Elyot. The Governorr, b. iii. c. 13.

I seeme to see a farre off (for my comfort) the highe and triumphant vertue called magnanimity accompanied with industrious diligence.-What shal I do then? Shall I yeld to miserie as iust plague appointed for my portion? Magnanimity saith no, and industry seemeth to be of the verie same opinion.-Gascoigne. The Steele Glas.

Never had worthy man for any fact,

A more fair, glorious theatre than we;
Wheron true magnanimity might act
Brave deeds, which better witnessed could be.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vi.

But before I descend to particulars, it will not be amiss to take notice of one consideration, that may in general make it probable that the Christian Religion is rather favourable, than opposite to true magnanimity. Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 552.

Lives there on earth, almost to Greece unknown,
A people so magnanimous, to quit
Their native soil, traverse the stormy deep,
And by their blood and treasure spent for us,
Redeem our States, our liberties, and laws!

Thomson. Liberty, pt. iii.

In the height of his agonies, with a magnanimity not less extraordinary than his patient endurance of pain and contumely, he accepted the homage which in that situation was offered to him as the King of Israel: and, in the highest tone of confident authority, promised to conduct the penitent companion of his sufferings that very day to Paradise. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 12. With Hannibal at her gates, she [Holland] had nobly and magnanimously refused all separate treaty.

Burke. Letters on a Regicide Peace Let I

On th' other syde an hidious rock is pight
Of mightie magnes-stone.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12.

Dinocrates began to make the arched roofe of the temple of Arsinoe all of magnet, or this loadstone, to the end, that within that temple the statue of the said princesse made of yron, might seeme to hang in the aire by nothing.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxxiv. c. 14.

The honour of that inuention, as touching the propertie of the magnetical needle in pointing towards the poles, is attributed by Blondus to the citizens of Amalfe.

Stow. Q. Elizabeth, an. 1602.

There is an opinion, that the moon is magnetical of heat, as the sun is of cold and moisture.-Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 75.

[We see] many greene wounds by that now so much used unguentum armarium, magnetically cured.

Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 96.

It related not to the instances of the magneticalness of lightning.-History of the Royal Society, vol. iv. p. 253.

The magnetic poles are also a great secret; especially now they are found to be distinct from the poles of the earth. Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 2.

The magnetickness of their external success.

Waterhouse. Comm. on Fortescu, (1663) p. 187. Men that ascribe thus much unto rocks of the North, must presume or discover the like magneticals in the South. For, in the Southern Seas and far beyond the Equator variations are large, and declinations as constant as in the Northern Ocean.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3.

They must, obedient to mechanic laws,
Assemble where the stronger magnet draws;
Whether the Sun that stronger magnet proves,
Or else some Planet's orb that nearer moves.

Blackmore. The Creation, b. i. Who can enough magnetic force admire.-Id. Ib.

Many other magnetisms may be pretended and the like attractions through all the creatures of nature.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3.

But magnetism is so fertile a subject, that if I had now the leisure and conveniency to range among magnetical writers, I should scarce doubt of finding, among their many experiments and observations, divers, that might be added to those above delivered, as being easily applicable to the present argument.-Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 345.

Thus safe thro' waves the sons of Israel trod;
Their better magnet was the lamp of God.

Harte. Thomas à Kempis. A Vision. The virtue of his death, and the consequent power of his resurrection" (as the apostle styles it), compose a divine magnetical influence (if one may use the expression), which is to act upon the mass of mankind and draw them upwards from the earth.-Horne. Works, vol. v. Dis. 3.

And thus where he so highly magnifieth the beliefe of God's promises only, setting all other articles of the faithe as thingis of a second sorte, him selfe belieueth as ye see the promises as lyttell as the tother. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 562. And Dauid said Solomon my sonne is yong and tender, and we must buylde an house for the Lord, magnifical, excellent and of great fame and dignitie throughout all countreis.-Geneva Bible, 1561. 1 Chron. xxii. 5.

He spake in all points as their prince; modestly indeed of his owne person, and of the weale-publicke magnifically. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 139.

This I dare boldly affirme that that magnificent temple of Salamon was in a greate deale lesser tyme builded, than this Isopes crow was decked with hys borrowed fethers. Barnes. Workes, p. 357.

The least error in a small quantity, as in a small circle, will, in a great one, as in the circles of the heavenly orbs, be proportionally magnified.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. ii. c. 5. Dread soveraine goddesse, that doest highest sit

In seate of iudgement in th' Almightie's stead, And with magnificke mighte and wondrous wit, Doest to thy people righteous doome arede. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 1.

And this is the full and plain meaning of those words sq often used in Scripture for the magnification of faith, The just shall live by faith.-Bp. Taylor, vol. iii. Ser. 3.

Far distant he descries
Ascending by degrees magnificent
Up to the wall of heaven a structure high.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii.

A Prince is never so magnificent
As when he's sparing to enrich a few
With the injuries of many.

Massinger. The Emperor of the East, Act ii. sc. 1.

A domineering pedant o're the boy, [Cupid]
Than whom no mortall so magnificent.

Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act i. sc. 1.

What ark, what trophy, what magnificence
Of glory, Hotspur, hadst thou purchas'd here;
Could but thy cause as fair as thy pretence,
Be made unto thy Country to appear.

Sperone Speroni replied to [Francis Maria II. Duke of Rovere] "that he preferred to live for one day like a man [rather] than for a hundred years like a brute, a stock or a stone." This was thought and called, a magnificent answer, down to the last days of Italian servitude.

Byron. Childe Harold, c. 4. s. 31. Note,

[Verona] can boast of possessing one of the noblest monu. ments of Roman magnificence now existing; I mean its amphitheatre, inferior in size, but equal in materials and in solidity to the Coliseum.-Eustace. Italy, vol. i. c. 2.

We commonly find in the ambitious man a superiority of parts, in some measure proportioned to the magnitude of his designs.-Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 4.

MAGNILOQUENCE. Lat. Mugniloquentia. See LOCUTION.

Greatness of speech.

And our author might have seen how all the sects ridiculed this magniloquence of Epicurus, as inconsistent with his whole system; and proved by set and legitimate treatises, that a true Epicurean could not live a pleasant life. much less a virtuous.-Bentley. Remarks, § 44.

MAG-PIE.

Minshew

and Sherwood,—a MA'GOT-PIE. Magatapie. Magot-pie (says Steevens) is the original name of the bird: magot being the familiar appellation given to pies, as we say Robin to a red-breast, Tom to a titmouse, Philip to a sparrow, &c." It is not unusual to call this bird also Madge. See PIE.

Augures, and vnderstood relations haue,
By maggot pyes, and choughes, and rookes brought forth
The secret'st man of blood.
Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iii. sc. 4.

Where the fond ape himselfe uprearing hy
Upon his tiptoes, stalketh stately by
As if he were some great magnifico.

Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale.
Be assur'd of this
That the magnifico is much belou'd.

Shakespeare. Othello, Act i. sc. 2. Mens hilaris, requies, moderata dieta is a great magnifier of honest mirth, by which (saith Gornesius) we cure many passions of the minde, in ourselves, and in our friends. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 298.

And fast by hanging in a golden chain
This pendant world, in bigness as a star
Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.

Number, though wonderful in itself, and sufficiently magnifiable from its demonstrable affection, hath yet received adjections from the multiplying conceits of men. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 12.

Then too the pillar'd dome, magnific heav'd
Its ample roof; and luxury within
Pour'd out her glittering stores.-Thomson. Autumn.
Methinks I see a pompous tomb arise,
Beauteous the form, magnificent the size.

Yalden. On Sir Willoughby Aston.
Where's now the vast magnificence, which made
The souis of foreigners adore
Thy wond'rous brightness, which no more
Shall shine, but lie in an eternal shade?

Pomfret Eleazar's Lamentation over Jerusalem. 4. The denial of this assistance seems to take off from the energy of prayer in general, and from the virtue of prayer for the Holy Spirit in particular, and so to make men slight and neglect that duty of which the scripture speaketh so magnificently, and to which it so frequently exhorts us.

Dr. Whitby. Five Points, Dis. 3. c. 1. s. 2.

One of our microscopes has been counted by several of the curious as good a magnifier, as perhaps any is in the world. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 543. To these thy naval streams. Thy frequent towns superb of busy trade, And ports magnific add, and stately ships, Innumerous. Dyer. The Fleece, b. i.

Of or pertaining to Mahomet, or to the religion established by him.

Mahound, Mahomet, (says Skinner,) but I believe the Fr. formerly although the word is now

For the sacrifices which God gave Adam's sonnes, were no dumme popetrie or superstitious Mahometrie, but signes of the testament of God.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 257.

So did the squire, the whiles the carle did fret And fume in his disdainefull mynd the more, And oftentimes by Turmagant and Mahound swore. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 7.

My mighty Mahound kinsman, what quirk now? Beaum. & Fletch. Rule a Wife and have a Wife, Act iv. sc.1.

All of this kindred are called Emyri, that is, Lords, cloathed with (or at least, wearing turbants of) greene, which colour the Mahumetans will not suffer other men to weare.-Purchas. Pilgrimage, b. iii. c. 6.

The Mahometans make it a part of their religion to propagate their sect by the sword; but yet still by honourable wars, never by villanies and secret murders.

Bacon. Charge against Mr. Owen.

In the Catecheses Mystagogicæ or instructions of Peter Guerra de Lorca, concerning conuerting and keeping from Mahometisme, are rehearsed and refuted a great part of their superstitions.-Purchas. Pilgrimage, b. iii. c. 5.

There is extant a constitution of Methodius, Patriarke of Constantinople, touching the diuersities of penances (according to the diuersitie of the offence) to bee performed by such as haue reuolted from the faith to Mahumetisme.-Id. Ib.

In the East, where the warmth of the climate makes cleanliness more immediately necessary than in colder countries, it is made one part of their religion: the Jewish law, and the Mahometan, which in some things copies after it, is filled with bathings, purifications, and other rites of the like nature.-Spectator, No. 632.

Mr. Gibbon comes forward with all the rancour of a renegado, against christianity. He tramples upon it at first, with a cloven-foot of heathenism. He dungs upon it at last, from the dirty tail of Mahometanism. Whitaker. Review of Gibbon's History, p. 250. From all those differential marks, I am inclired to suspect that our old structures have been new-named, and Mahometanized without sufficient proof of their Arabic origin. Swinburne. Spain, Let. 44