Where faire Ascanius and his youthful train, Or should I tell the ladies so dispos'd, MATE, v. Check-mate; Fr. Eschec, and MATE, n. mat; It. Scacco matto, at the game of chess, when the king is mait, i. e. defeat, so that he cannot stir, and, consequently, the game lost. Mait, from Old Lat. Mattus, mattare, Gr. MarTew, subigere, to subdue. See Skinner and Ruddiman. } MATE, v. A.S. Mac-a; Dut. Maet. SkinMATE, n. ner thinks-from A. S. Metan, to MATELESS. meet: pares enim paribus facile aggregantur, birds of a feather fly together. But see MAKE and MATCH. To match, to pair, to couple, to counite, to coequal: to be, stand, or be placed as coequal, or in equipoise; to stand up against or withstand, as equal; to oppose. A mate, one of a pair or couple; one coupled or counited with another or others: an associate or co-fellow, one whose offices or labours are the same with those of another, (without reference to rank or authority, as ship-mate, master's-mate.) Pacience and ich weren y putte to be mettes And seten by our selve. Piers Plouhman, p. 244. The turtle to her mate hath tolde her tale. Surrey. Of the restless State of a Louer. Lac. Mistresse, what's your opinion of your sister? Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew, Act iii. sc. 2. If I lou'd many words, Lord, I should tell you, Toward the king, my euer roiall master, Dare mate a sounder man then Surrie can be, And all that loue his follies.-Id. Hen. VIII. Act iii. sc.2. The piece of ignorant dow, he stood up to me Beaum. & Fletch. Rule a Wife, Act iii. sc. 1 O Golias, unmesurable of length, Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5355. For as the man, which ofte drynketh And of mine owne thought so mate.-Gower. Con. A. b.vi. The French men he hath so mated Skelton. Why come ye not to Court? MATERIAL. Of or pertaining to a mother, motherly: appro- “Fr. Maternité-maternity, motherhood, the She, that herself will sliver and disbranch That part alone of gross maternal frame Gay. The Apotheosis of Hercules. Not with such joy a mother views again Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. i. MATH. A. S. Maw-eth, the third person MATHEMATICKS. MATHEMATICAL. MATHEMATICALLY. MATHEMATICIAN. Fr. Mathématiques; It. Matematice; Sp. Matematica; Lat. Mathematica, mathesis; Gr. Μαθηματικα, μαθησις, μαθήματα, απο του Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act v. sc. 3. μabe, discere, docere, to learn or teach. Mad man, the clouds, and lightnings matelesse, The thrush a tenor; of a little space, Peacham. Minerv. Britan. (1612.) Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. ii. One fatal night this unrelenting crew Fawkes. Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautics, b. ii. To be or cause to be insensate; to stupify, to astound or astonish, to appal. Gower, in the quotations from him, applies the word to the effects of dronkship or drunkenness. It is written by G. Douglas-Mait and Mate. See the Glossary to his Virgil. Ruddiman derives as Mate in check-mate, supra. Kim thoughte that his herte wolde all to-breke, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 957. Gower. Con. A. b. vii. The third point of theorike, Bale. English Votaries, pt. i. A mathematical chamber, furnished with all sorts of mathematical instruments, being an appendix to a library. Cowley. Ess. The College. Mr. Selden, whose volume of natural and national laws proves, not only by great authorities brought together, but by exquisite reasons and theorems, almost mathematically demonstrative, that all opinions, yea errors, known, read, and collated, are of main service and assistance toward the speedy attainment of what is truest. Milton. Of Unlicensed Printing. Mathematicians, among the Romans, were, for some time, specially meant of astrologers, or star prophets; as appears in Suetonius, and others, best skill'd in language of their own country.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. v. c. 4. p. 327. I have mentioned mathematicks as a way to settle in the mind an habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathemati cians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they have occasion. Locke. Of the Conduct of the Understanding, s. 7. In all sorts of reasoning, every single argument should be manag'd as a mathematical demonstration, the connection and dependence of ideas should be follow'd till the mind is brought to the source on which it bottoms, and observes the coherence all along.-Id. Ib. Mathematicks treat of magnitude and numbers, instructing us how to measure, estimate, and compute the different distances, magnitudes, and motions of bodies, with respect to one another. Horne. State of the Case between Newton and Hutchinson. Grant the possibility of the three operations described in the postulates, and the correctness of the solution is as mathematically certain, as the truth of any property of the triangle, or of the circle. Stewart. Of the Human Mind, vol. ii. c. 2. s. 3. The mathematician, who took no other pleasure in reading Virgil, but that of examining Æneas's voyage by the map, might perfectly understand the meaning of every Latin word employed by that divine author.-Hume, pt. i. Ess. 18. MATRICE. Fr. Matrice; It. Matrice; Sp. MA'TRICIDE. Madre, madriz, matriz; Lat. Matrix, i.e. the mother's (sc.) womb. The mother's womb; applied, generally, to that in which any thing is formed or moulded. All that breaketh vp the matryce shal be myne, and all that breaketh the matrice amonge thy catell, if it be male: whether it be oxe or shepe.-Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 34. The matrix (which some have called another animal within us, and which is not subjected unto the law of our will,) after reception of its proper tenant, may yet receive a strange and spurious inmate. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 17. Nature compensates the death of the father by the matricide and murther of the mother.-Id. Ib. Her goodly name To be matriculate, with ladies of astate? Skelton. The Crowne of Laureli No, my matriculated confutant, there will not want in any congregation of this island, that hath not been altogether famish'd, or wholly perverted with prelatish leaven. Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuus. Mathew the publican, when he was called from his tolebooth to a discipleship, and was now to be matriculated into the family of Christ, entertained his new master with a sumptuous banquet.-Bp Hall. Christ. Moderation, b. i. § 5. His name occurs not in the matricula, only that of John Sherley, a Sussex man, and the son of a Gent. matriculated as a member of that hall, in 1582, aged 14. Wood. Athena Oxon. vol. i. Because we have no matriculation books above the time of Q Elizab. the memory of many eminent meu in the church and state is lost.-Id. Ib. That every scholar be elected by convocation, and at the time of election be unmarried, and a member of some college or hall in the University of Oxford, who shall have been matriculated twenty-four calendar months at least. Blackstone. Commentaries, s. 1. Introd. That a professorship of the laws of England be established, with a salary of two hundred pounds per annum; the professor to be elected by convocation, and to be, at the time of his election at least, a master of arts, or batchelor of civil law, in the University of Oxford, of ten years' standing from his matriculation; and also a barrister at law of four years' standing at the bar.-Id. Ib. Suffer me in the name of the matriculates of that famous university to ask them some plain questions.-Arbuiknot. The misinterpreting of the scripture directed mainly against the abusers of the law for divorce given by Moses, hath chang'd the blessing of matrimony not seldom into a familiar and eo inhabiting mischief; at least into a drooping and disconsolate houshold captivity, without refuge or redemption.- Milton. Doct, and Discip. of Divorce, b. i. Pref. From whose two loynes thou afterwards did ryse, Most famous fruites of matrimoniall bowre. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 3. Yet Meses, as if foreseeing the miserable work that man's ignorance and pusillanimity would make in this matrimonieus business, and endeavouring his utmost to prevent it, condescends in this place to such a methodical and schoollike way of defining and consequencing, as in no place of the whole law more.-Milton. Tetrachordon. To this sagacious confessor he went, And told her what a gift the gods had sent: Dryden. The Wife of Bath's Tale. He is so matrimonially wedded unto his church, that he cannot quit the same, even on the score of going into a religious house.-Aylife. Parergon. With respect to the main article in matrimonial alliances, a total alteration has taken place in the fashion of the world; the wife now brings money to her husband, whereas anciently the husband paid money to the family of the wife; as was the case amongst the Jewish patriarchs, the Greeks, and the old inhabitants of Germany. Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. iii. c. 8. Yet did that auncient matrone all she might, And amongst others. he [Maximilian] had herd of the beautie and vertuous behaviour of the young Queen of Naples, the widdow of Ferdinando the younger, being then of matronall yeares of seuen and twentie. Bacon. King Hen. VII. p. 218. Which doen, she up arose, with seemely grace, And toward them full matronely did pace. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10. Mall, once in pleasant company by chance, Harrington, b. iv. Epig. 45. For thee the soldier bleeds, the matron mourns, Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. vi. She, wretched matron, forc'd in age for bread, Goldsmith. The Deserted Village. Let us suppose, then, that our gracious sovereign was sacrilegiously murdered; his exemplary queen, at the head of the matronage of this land, murdered in the same manner. Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1. Safe in the bosom of a sylvan scene, MATTER, n. MATTER, v. MATERIAL. MATERIAL, N. MATERIALISM. Fr. Matière; It. Materia; Sp.Materia; Lat. Materies: putamus a matre dici materies, quia in corporum ratione se matris instar habet, (Vossius.) Matter is applied to, is MATERIALIST. That of which any thing MATERIALITY. formed or fashioned, MATERIALIZE, v. composed, constructed, conMATERIALLY. stituted; that which is subMATERIATE, adj. jected or supposed; (met.) MATERIA'TION. a subject, an object; object in view, pursued or followed, contemplated, considered; considered or deemed, esteemed or valued as worthy of pursuit, of gaining, acquiring, or possessing; of perceiving, knowing, or understanding. Also applied to The corrupt liquid secreted from a sore or wound. To matter, to form such corrupt secretion. To be (met.) or be deemed, considered or esteemed worthy of pursuit, of value or weight, of moment or importance; to import; to estimate or esteem; to value. Material is used literally, and also met. (thus) pertaining to the matter or subject; important, momentous, weighty, substantial, essential. We remain sufficiently satisfied from Moses, and the doctrine delivered of the Creation, that is,-a production of all things out of nothing; a formation not onely of matter, but of form, and a materiation even of matter itself. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 1 Body stands for a solid extended figured substance, whereof matter is but a partial, and more confused conception, it seeming to me to be used for the substance and Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 10. s. 15, solidity of body without taking in its extension and figure. Matter being a divisible substance, consisting always of separable, nay of actually separate and distinct parts, 'tis plain, that unless it were essentially conscious, in which case every particle of matter must consist of innumerable, separate, and distinct consciousnesses, no system of it in any possible composition or division, can be any individual conscious being. Clarke. Letter to Mr. Dodwell. The soul, therefore, whose power of thinking is undeniably one individual consciousness, cannot possibly be a material substance.-Id. Ib. I deny that there is any unthinking substratum of the objects of sense, and in that acceptation that there is any material substance. But if by material substance is meant only sensible body, that which is seen and felt, then am I more sensible of matter's existence, than you or any other philosopher, pretend to be.-Berkeley, Dial. 3. I looked upon her hand, and finding it all mattery, bathed it with a decoction of, &c.-Wiseman. Surgery, b. i. c. 17. The herpes beneath matiered and were dried up with the common epuloticks.-Id. Ib. See the quotations from Locke, Clarke, Berkeley, Stewart, and Belsham, for certain philoso- (if 1 may so call it) a scheme of abstracted notions, and phical usages. And if thou canst not tellen me anon, A twelvemonth and a day, to seek and lere Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6492. "Certis," quod they, "we putten our dede, and all oure matere, and cause, al holly in youre good will.” Id. The Tale of Melibeus. And we therefore Do write of newe some mattere.-Gower. Con. A. Prol. Ye say they vnderstonde it in an allegory sense, and perceiued well that hee meant not of hys materiall body to bee eaten with their teeth.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 460. I meane not his materiall crosse that he himself dyed on, but a spirituall crosse, which is aduersitie, tribulation, worldly depression, &c.-Fryth. Workes, p. 5. And bring him in materialities. Skelton, The Boke of Colin Clout. For Sosianus and Sagitta were men vile and of no account, neither mattered it where they liued. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 161. Well worthie stock from which the branches sprong, That in late yeares so faire a blossom bare, As thee, O queene, the matter of my song. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4. Sometimes, A poem, of no grace, weight, art, in rimes, B. Jonson. Horace. The Art of Poetry. Jul. Away with your matterie sentences, Momus; they are too grave, and wise, for this meeting. Id. Poetaster, Act iv. sc. 4. Concerning the materials of seditions. It is a thing well to be considered: for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do beare it) is to take away the matter of them. Bacon. Of Seditions. That were too long their infinite contents Here to record, ne much materiall. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 10. They religiously, and with invocation, brought with them to it, a ceremonial banquet, materials for sacrifice, with two white bulls, filletted on the horns, all which they placed under the oak.-Drayton, Poly-Olbion, s. 9. Selden. Illust, Some men have thought of a seventh way, and explicate our praying in the spirit by a mere volubility of language: which indeed is a direct undervaluing the Spirit of God and of Christ, the spirit of manifestation and intercession; and is to return to the materiality and imperfection of the law. Bp. Taylor, vol. ii, Ser. 2. But Boetius de Boot, physician unto Ridulphus the Second, hath recompensed this defect, and in his tract, de Lapidibus et Gemmis, speaks very materially hereof. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3. For certain it is, that it is more difficult to make gold (which is the most ponderous and materiate amongst metalles) of other metalles, less ponderous, and less materiale than (rice versa) to make silver of lead, or quicksilver. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 326. 1265 [Virgil has] with wonderful art and beauty materialized clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images and poetical representations. Tatler, No. 115. By this means [the invention of letters] we materialize our ideas, and make them as lasting as the ink and paper, their vehicles.-Guardian, No. 172. When we attempt to explain the nature of that principle which feels and thinks and wills, by saying. that it is a material substance, or that it is the result of material organization, we impose on ourselves by words; forgetting, that matter as well as mind is known to us by its qualities and attributes alone, and that we are totally ignorant of the essence of either.-Stewart. Of the Hum. Mind, pt. i. Introd. My aim at ev'ry hour Is to be well with those in pow'r, Whoever's in, to be in too. Churchill. The Ghost, b. iv. By the adversaries of the hypothesis of materialism it is urged, in a lofty and triumphant tone. that the known essential properties of matier are absolutely inconsistent with perception and activity, the essential attributes of the mind. Belsham. Philosophy of the Mind, c. 11. s. 1. The materialists, as they are commonly called, though with some impropriety of expression, maintain. that man consists of one uniform substance, the object of the senses; and that perception, with its modes, is the result, necessary or otherwise, of the organization of the brain.-Id. Ib. For had not this disorder'd chaos been; Had not these angels caus'd it by their sin; Nor had compacted earth, nor rock, nor stone, Nor gross materiality been known. MATTIN, n. Byrom. An Epistle to a Gentleman in the Temple. MATTIN, adj. Fr. Matines; It. Mattutino; Sp. Matines: preces vel horæ matutina. Lat. Matutinus, from matuta; a name given to Aurora; and matuta, from mane, (optima diei pars.) See Vossius. MATUTINE. MATUTINAL. The morning; the break or dawn of day; the beginning or early part of day. In the Roman Catholic Church,-Matins, officium horæ matutine, forms the third watch of the monastic day, (sc.) from three till six o'clock, A. M. Mattens-ed-seems a splenetic coinage of Bale. In chyrche he was deuout y now, vor hym ne ssolde non day abyde, That he ne hurde masse & matyna and eueson & eche tyde. R. Gloucester, p. 369. They say that knowe hym: he sayeth none at all, neither Mattins, Euensonge, nor Masse, nor commeth at no churche, but eyther to gase or talke.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 415. And whan theyr feastfull dayes come, they are yet in the papystyck churches of Englande with no small solempnite mattensed, massed, candeled, lyghted, processyoned, sensed, smoked, perfumed and worshypped.-Bale. Eng. Fot, pt. i MAT The merry larke her mattins sings aloft. Spenser. Epithalamion. Secondly, according as the said stars begin either to shine out or be hidden in the morning before the sun be up, or at evening after the sunne is set, they be said to rise and goe downe, and thereupon are named matutine or vespertine, orientall or occidentall, according as the one or the other happeneth unto them in the twy-light, morning or evening. Certes, when they are to be seene matutine or vespertine, it must be at the least three quarters of an houre either before the sunne is up, or after he is downe: for within that space there is no looking after them. Holland. Plinie, b. xviii. c. 25. He raised his spouse ere matin-bell was rung, And thus his morning canticle he sung. Pope. January & May. Nor scorn'd to mark the sun at matins due Warton. On the Birth of the Prince of Wales. Another matutinal expression in ancient use was-"Give you (i. e. God) good day," implying a hope that the day might end as well as it had begun. Pegge. Anecdotes of the English Language, p. 277. MATTOCK. A. S. Mattuc, meottuc, meottoc; which Somner calls-a trident, a spade, a shovell, Minshew derives it a delving toole, a mattock, from Dut. Met haecke, with hooke, from hacken, to hack, ridiculously, says Skinner,-who proposes A. S. Meos, moss, or any low herb, and tog-en, to tug or pull, because it (a mattock) pulls or tears up. In the kynges hoost ther were a fiue hundred varlettes, wt matockes and axes to make euyn the waies for the caryage to passe.-Berners. Froissart. Cron. vol. i. c. 207. For feare of being stifled with the vapour arising from thence, they are forced to giue ouer such fire-workes, and betake themselves oftentimes to great mattockes and pickaxes.-Hakewill. Apologie, b. iv. c. 5. 8. 2. Who left the mattock, and the spade, MATTRESS. MATURE, v. MATU'RE, adj. MATU'RELY. MATURITY. MATURA'TION. MATU'RATIVE. Churchill. The Duellist, b. ii. See MAT. Fr. Mature; It. Maturo; Sp. Maduro; Lat. Maturus (of uncertain origin.) That is properly said to be mature, which is neither too quick or early, nor too slow or late, (Vossius:) and thus, Ripe, perfect, complete, digested. MATURE. See IM Maturitie is a mean between two extremities, wherein nothynge lacketh or excedeth, and is in such a state, that it may neither encrease nor minysshe without losinge the denomination of maturitie. Whan they (the actes of man) be doone with suche moderation, that nothing in the doing may be sene superfluous or indiget, we say, that they be maturely doone.-Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 22. The apples covered in the lime and ashes were well matured, as appeared both in their yellowness and sweetness. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 320. Which images here figur'd in this wise, Daniel. Tragedy of Philotas, Ded. Of years and wisdom, that discern what shows, Id. A Panegyric to the King. Maturation is seen in liquors and fruits; wherein there is not desired, nor pretended, an utter conversion, but onely an alteration to that form, which is most sought, for man's use; as in clarifying drinks, ripening of fruits, &c. Bacon. Naturall Historie, §838. As in the body, so in the soul, diseases and tumours must have their due maturation ere there can be a perfect cure. Bp. Hall. The Balm of Gilead. The same linseed] applyed with figs is an excellent maturative, and ripeneth all imposthumes. Holland. Plinie, b. xx. c. 22. Your lordship, therefore, may properly be said to have chosen a retreat and not to have chosen it until you had maturely weighed the advantages of rising higher with the hazards of the fall.-Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, Ded. But this I only repeat historically, till further observation shall discover, whether these are diamonds not yet fully ripe, and capable of growing harder by further maturation. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 453. The heat could never be greater than now it is at our 10th of March, or the 11th of September, and therefore not sufficient to bring their fruits and grain to maturity. Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. As rolling years matur'd his age, He flourish'd bold and sinewy as his sire: While the mild passions in his breast assuage The fiercer flames of his maternal fire. Smollett. Ode to Independence. His deep and piercing eye Look'd wisdom, and mature sedateness weigh'd To doubtful counsels. Hamilton. The Thistle. MA'UDLIN is the name of a plant, Herba Magdalena, and, used as an adjective, is a corruption of Magdalen, (which Sir T. More writes Mawdleyne,) who is depictured with eyes wet and swelled with tears: and is applied when the eyes are watery, and the countenance swollen, with sottishness; weakness of mind. Sir Edmonbury first, in woful wise, The maudlin hero, like a puling boy Churchill. The Times. And put them in a maude and brynge them in the maundo wt the oxe and the ii rammes.-Bible, 1551. Exod. c. 29. Take the first of all the frute of the erthe, whiche thou hast brought in oute of the lande that the Lord thy God geueth the, and put it into a maude, and go vnto the place whiche the Lorde thy God shall chose to make his namo dwel there.-Id. Deut. c. 25. A thousand favours from a maund she drew Shakespeare. A Louer's Complaint. So rides he mounted on the market day, Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 2. MAUND, v. To maunder, Skinner says, MA'UNDER, v. is to murmur, parum deflexo MA'UNDER, n. sensu, from the Fr. Maudire: MAUNDERING, n. (Lat. Male-dicere :)-Serenius, from the Sw. Mana, ciere, provocare, (i. e. the A. S. Man-ian.) But it is very probably merely a consequential usage of maund, a basket, intending, To bear or carry the basket, the beggar's basket, to receive the dole of charity; hence, to beg. And to maunder,— To use the speech, or mode of speech, customary with beggars; their whine or mutter, (their cant,) either of solicitation or discontent: hence, to whine or mutter, to grumble or complain. Mr. Grose says, 66 Maundy, abusive, saucy. Hence maundering,-Glouc." A very canter, I sir, one that maunds MA'UGRE. Fr. Maulgré, i. e. malgré; It. In spight of their hearts, against their wills, whether they will or no, (Cotgrave.) Spenser says. (b. ii. c. 5. st. 12,) “Maulyre her spight," i. e. fortune; by which he appears to mean-Spight on her spight. Ac thoru the emperour, that seththe com, y hote Theodose "Then tell," quoth Blandamour, "and feare no blame; Tell what thou saw'st, maulgre whoso it heares." Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 1: Untill that Talus had his pride represt, And forced him, maulgre, it up to rear.-Id. Ib. b. v. c. 1. He shall (maugre) be forced to confesse, that either there were never true Orders in the Church of England (which he dares not say) or else that they are still ours. Bp. Hall. The Honour of the Maried Clergie, b. i. § 17. MA'UKIN. See MALKIN. MAUL. See MALL. MAUND, n.Į A. S. Mand; Fr. Mande, MAUNDY, n. manne. Open basket or pannier having handles; Dut. Mande; from the Lat. Manus; q.d. a hand-basket; others from mandere, to eat, because eatables were usually carried in it. Skinner prefers the former. Beaum. & Fletch. Thierry & Theodorat, Act v. sc. 1. Hig. Thou art chosen, venerable Clause, Our king and soveraign: monarch o' th' maunders. Id. The Beggar's Bush, Act ii. sc. 1. The maunderings of discontent are like the voyce and behaviour of a swine, who, when he feels it rain, runs grumbling about, and, by that, indeed, discovers his nature, but does not avoid the storm.-South, vol. vii. Ser. 14. MAUNDY. This word is applied by our old writers at the time of the Reformation to the | command which Christ gave to his disciples for the commemoration of his last supper. Spelman, however, thinks that Maundy-Thursday, on the evening of which day the commaund was given, may be so called from mande, a basket, (see ante,) baskets being formerly brought on that day to receive the charitable donations of the king. In his second parte, he treateth the maundye of Christ with his apostles vpon the sheare Thursday, wherin our Sauiour actually dyd institute the blessed sacrament, and therein verylie gaue hys owne verye fleshe and bloude to hys twelue apostles.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1038. For vnto those wordes he putteth and forthwith ioineth, the rehersing of his bitter passion, begynning with his maundy, and therein his humble wesshynge of his disciples feete. Id. Ib. p. 1305. The mynde and exposition of the old douctours vppon the wordes of Christes maundey.-Fryth. Workes, p. 125. That is to say he admitted hym (saith S. Austě) vnto the maundye wherein he did betake and deliuer vnto the disciples ye figure of his body and bloud.-Id. Ib. p. 127. Lat. Mausoleum; Fr. Mausolée; It. and Sp.Mau MAUSOLEUM. Į MAUSOLE AN. soleo. See the quotation from Pliny. This mausoleum was the renowned tombe or sepulchre of Mausolus, a petie king of Carie. which the worthie ladie Artemisia (sometime his queene, and now his widow) caused to be erected for the said prince her husband, who died in the second yeere of the hundreth Olympias: and verily so sumptuous a thing it was, and so curiously wrought, by the artificers especially, that it is reckoned one of those matchlesse monuments which are called the seven wonders of the world.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvi. c. 5. The whole chapel called by his [Henry VII] name, is properly but his mausoleum, he building it solely for the burial place of himself and the royal family, and accordingly ordering by his will that no other person should be interred there. Dart. Antiquities of Westminster Abbey, vol. i. p. 92 Some [Great Princes) have am ised the dull, sad years of (Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad,) Short liv'd themselves, t' immortalize their bones. MA'UTHER. Ray says,-a modher, or modder, mothther, a girl or young wench; used all over the eastern parts of England, viz. Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge; and he quotes the etymology of the word from the Dan. Moer, virgo, puella, (see MAID, or MAY,) given by Spelman in his Glossary, in v. Moer. Norfolk, from its situation, was much exposed to Danish settlers, and Spelman imagines those of Norfolk, who sprang from the Danes, preserved the word, fnough with & corrupt pronunciation. See Nares, Moor, and Ray. I know. Away, you talk like a foolish mawther. B. Jonson. The Alchymist, Activ. sc. 6. MA/VIS. Fr. Mauvis; It. Malviccio. The French also call it La Grive de Vigne, because it feeds upon the ripe grapes, (Pennant;) and it is said to have received its name mauvis, Lat. Malus, from the mischief it does to the vintage. See Menage. MA'WMET, or MAMMOT. MA'WMETRY. Mahomet :-generally, an A temple heo fonde fair y now, and a mawmed a midde, An idolastre peraventure ne hath not but o maumet or In destruction of maumetrie And in encrese of Cristes lawe dere, Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4656. The hole people of the world in effecte falle from knowledge or beleue of God, unto Idolatry and worship of mammoltys.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 128. There you shall find in every corner a maumet; at everye A name of the thrush, sti commonly used in doore a beggar; in every dish a priest.-Bp. Hall, Ep.1.Dec.1. And thrustles, terins, and mauise That songen for to win hem prise, And eke to surmount in hir song That other birdes hem emong By note made faire seruise.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. The thrush replyes; the mavis descant playes. Spenser. Epithalamion. MAW. A. S. Maga; Dut. Maeghe; Ger. Mage; Sw. Mage. See MEAT, and MOUTH. The stomach,-wherein the meat is received and digested. And smot hym thoru foundement, and so vp to the mawe. Who kept Jonas in the fishes mawe, Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4907. Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b. ii. Beating their empty mawes that would be fed And then to hane a wretched puling foole, Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet, Act iii. sc. 5. We charge the prelatical clergy with popery, to make them MAXILLARY. Fr. Maxillaire; It. Mascel- Of, pertaining, or belonging to the jaw. For there is the skull of one entire bone; there are the teeth; there are maxillary bones, there is the hard bone, that is the instrument of hearing, and thence issue the horns.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 747. Now helpe me, lady, sith ye may and can. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2014. Yes, you despise the man to books confin'd, Yet lives there one, whose heedless eye Collins. On the Death of Mr. Thomson. MAY, n. Fr. May; It. Maggio, Sp. Mayo; MA'YING. Lat. Maius; for which various etymologies are given. See Vossius and Martinius. The latter prefers a majoribus, from the growth (q. strength,- -see MAY, ante) of vegetable nature at that period of the year. Applied (met.) to the spring or early season of life; also to the flower of the hawthorn, then in season: to the whole plant. Till it felle ones in a morwe of May And sayd, that for that noise and gallant sport Turbervile. Agaynst the jelous Heades, &c. MAXIM. Fr. Maxime; It. Massima; Sp. of her head tiers, than of her health, Marima; Low Lat. Maxima; because it is of Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 6. the greatest authority, and in greatest estimation. In like manner, axiom, from ažios, dignus. There are certain legal maxims unquestioned in our courts. See Fortescue, ch. 8; and Blackstone, vol. i. p. 68. Your warlike remedy against the maw-worms. MAWKING. MAWKINGLY. MA'WKISH. Addison. Milton's Style Imitated. a slattern; one careless of cleanliness, dress or Beaum. & Fletch. The Chances, Act iii. sc. 1. A deformed queane, a crooked carkass, a maukin, a witch, s rotten post, an hedge stake may be set out and tricked up, that it shall make as faire a show, as much enamour as the rest.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 469. Some silly souls are prone to place much piety in their mawkingly plainness, and in their censoriousness of others who use more comely and costly curiosities. Bp. Taylor. Artificial Handsomeness, p. 87. Whitehead. The Goat's Beard. It is a marime held of all, knowe plaine, Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 2. of maxims and axioms have passed for principles and Who means to build his happy reign Mallet. Truth in Rhyme. B. Jonson, s. 13. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, To gather may-buskets and smelling brere; Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. May. MAYOR. Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. a. 2. To greet glad nature, and the god of day, And flowery Venus, blooming queen of May; The songs of praise their tuneful breasts employ Charm every car, and wrap the soul in joy. Fawkes. Description of May By this stream and the may-blossom'd thorn That first heard his love-tale and his vows, My pale ghost shall wander forlorn, And the willow shall weep o'er my brows.-Mickle, s. 4. Fr. Maieur; It. Maggiore; from the Lat. Major; the greater or principal (man or In our elder magistrate, of a city, town, &c.) authors it is commonly written Maior; upon a presumption, no doubt, that we owed the word (as Menage insists) to the Latin; but the more ancient writing was Meyer, and in Ger, and Dut. it is Meyer or Meier; and in Fr. also Maire; which Skinner derives (with Verstegan) from the verb to may, posse; whence Lat. Maj-or itself is Wiclif. Filipensis, c. 4. ❘ derived. See MAJOR, and MAGNIFY; also MAY. To have power, (sc.) given, granted, or con- It is written mowe, moun, continually, in old authors. Addison. Virgil, Geor. 4. MARE. Flow, Weksted flow! like thine inspirer, beer; Plente me may in Engelond of alle gode y se. R. Gloucester, p. 1. I mai alle thingis in him that coumfortith me. MAYORESSE. "As to may (says Verstegan) signifieth to have might or power, so a mayer is as much to say, A haver of might, one that hath, and may use authority."-Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, c. 10. And nameliche ge maistres, meyres and iuges That han the welthe of this worlde. Piers Plouhman, p. 164. And there in the east ende of the hall where the maire kepeth the bustinges, the maire and all the aldermen assebled about him.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 61. Ye mayre who was chefe of this enterprise, on a day desyred Philippe Mansell to come to him to dyner. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 304. The major and companies of the citie receiued him at Shore-ditch.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 7. For the same three and twentieth yere was there a sharpe prosecution against Sir William Capel now the second time; and this was for matters of misgouernment in his maioralitie.-Id. Ib. p. 229. The pint pot has so belaboured you with wit, your brave acquaintance that gives you ale, so fortified your mazard, that now there's no talking to you. Beaum. & Fletch. Wit without Money, Act ii. sc. 1. I heard some talk of the carpenters' way, and I attempted that; but there the wooden rogues let a huge trap-door fall o' my head: If I had not been a spirit, I had been mazarded. B. Jonson. Masques at Court. Mor. Are thy mad brains in thy mazer now, thou jealous bedlam.-Ford. The Fancies, Act iv. sc. 1. Fust. Break but his pate, or so, only his mazer, because I'll have his head in a cloth as well as mine. Dekkar. The Honest Whore, Act i. sc. 11. His countenanee harmonized with his humour, and Christian's mazard was a constant joke. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. c. 2. MAZE, v. From the Dut. Missen, (i. e. the A. S. Miss-ian,) to miss, to err, to wander or stray away from. To wander or stray away; to be or become bewildered, confounded, or astonished; to bewilder, confound, or astonish, to perplex or puzzle; to wind, to intertwine, confusingly, perplexingly. "Ye mase, ye masen, goode sire," quod she, Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10,260. Men dreame al day of oules and apes, Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 1599. She ferde as she had stert out of a sleepe, Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 8889. And all my brayne is ouertourned, And stonde like a mased man.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. O negligent and heedlesse discipline, How are we park'd and bounded in a pale? Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. VI. Act iv. sc. 2. Thus while they studie how to bring to passe that religion my seeme but a matter inade, they lose themselues in the very maze of their owne discourses, as if reason did purposely forsake them, who of purpose forsake God, the author hereof.-Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 2. [I] thus wrapt in mist Of midnight vapor glide obscure, and pry Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix. Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xXV. They fet him first the swete win, Chaucer. Rhime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,780. Gascoigne. Dauid's Salutacions to Berzabe. Beaum. & Fletch. Valentinian, Act iv. sc. 7. Some such resemblances methinks I find Then struck with deep despair, Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. ix. Pope. The Temple of Fame. ME/ACOCK. Skinner says,-uxorious, too subject and devoted to his wife, also, pusillanimous, delicate, effeminate; either from mes (equivalent to mal, or to our Eng. Mis, Cotgrave), and coq; gallus ignavus, imbecillis, a cowardly cock; or mew-cock, a cock mewed up in a coop. Steevens, a cowardly, dastardly creature. Nan. 'Tis your own seeking. La-Cast. Fools and meacocks, Mr. To endure what you think fit to put upon 'em. I held it better, not to be so faint and peeuish a mencoche, as to shrinke and couch mine head for every mizeling shoure. Staniherst. To Sir H. Sidneie, Knt. Chron. of Ireland. O you are nouices-'tis a world to see How tame when men and women are alone, A meacocke wretch can make the cursest shrew. Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. August. of Maw-an, metere, to mow, (Tooke.) As particularly in the third pastoral, where one of his This pronoun probably includes within it the Thou ne schalt (bi hym that made me) of scapie to lygte. So true I have you found, For whan I maie hir honde beclip, Id. Ib. b. v. Than verely in dede dismaide Such torments than him toke, he cried amain, with voice 'Tis I, 'tis I, here I am that did, turne all at me. Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act ii. sc. 2. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x. In other alf beth grete wodes, les and mede also. R. Gloucester, p. 187. R. B unne, p. 2. Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 1535. Are branch'd with rivery veines meander-like that glide. One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, faire oxen and faire kine Nor is the mead unworthy of thy foot, Full of fresh verdure, and unnumber'd flowers, "Twas thus of old, Thomson. Spring. My warlike sons a gallant train, MEAD Met, Sw. Mjoed; Mid. Lat. Medus. MEATH. He sent hire pinnes, methe, and spiced ale, Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3379 |