The poore mechanicke porters, crowding in Shakespeare. Hen. V. Acti. sc. 2. We have also divers mechanical arts, which you have not; and stuffs made by them; as papers, linnen, silks, tissues. Bacon. New Atlantis, p. 28. A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, Shakespeare. Mids. Night's Dream, Act iii. sc. 2. These mechanic philosophers being no way able to give an account thereof [the formation and organization of the bodies animals] from the necessary motion of matter, unguided by mind for ends, prudently therefore break off their system There, when they should come to animals, and so leave it Atogether untouched.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. I do not here take the term, Mechanicks, in that stricter and more proper sense, wherein it is wont to be taken, when tis used only to signify the doctrine about the moving powers, (as the beam, the lever, the screws, and the wedge) and of framing engines to multiply force; but I here understand the word Mechanicks in a larger sense, for those disciplines that consist of the applications of the pure mathematicks to produce or modify motion in inferior bodies. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 435. The commonwealth of learning would lose too many ceful observations and experiments, and the history of nature would make too slow a progress, if it were presed, that none but geometers and mechanicians should employ themselves about writing any part of that history. Id. Ib. vol. ii. p. 473. Fourthly, I very well foresee it may be objected that the chick with all its parts is not a mechanically contrived enfe, but fashioned out of matter by the soul of the bird ged chiefly in the cicatricula.-Id. Ib. vol. iii. p. 68. There [in the kingdom of God] virtue only gives preredence, and the meanest mechanic takes place of the nobles and kings of the earth, if he were a better christian than they were.-Horne. Works, vol. iv. Dis. 9. If guards, mechanically form'd in ranks, Cowper. Table Talk. Although many authors have spoken of the wonderful serianism of speech, none has hitherto attended to the far are wonderful mechanism which it puts into action behind e scene.-Stewart. The Human Mind, vol. ii. c. 2. s. 2. But Garrick, who prefers a guinea To all the eloquence of Pliny, Observing this unlucky railer Was neither mechanist nor tailor. ME'DAL. ME'DALET. MEDA'LLICK. MEDALLION. ME'DALLIST. Ere. Cawthorne. Wit & Learning. Fr. Médaille; It. Medaglia; Sp. Medalla; from the Lat. Metallum; q. d. metallum, seu numisma solenne. Skinner and Vossius, quia ex auro, argento, When for example, an antique medal half consumed with st is shewed to an unskilful person, though a scholar, he not by his own endeavours be able to read the whole Ccription, whereof we suppose some parts to be obliterated #time or rust, or to discover the meaning of it. Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 545. Ect when a knowing medalist becomes his instructor, he ay then know some (much defaced) letters, that were illeThe to him before; and both understand the sense of the cription, and approve it as genuine, and suitable to the ngs whereto it be congruous.-Id. Ib. I have lately seen, says Eugenius, a medallic history of Se present king of France.-Addison. Anc. Medals, Dial. 3. I shall beg leave to give this class the appellation of dalets, as the genius of our language admits of this dimife, in ringlet, bracelet, and the like. Pinkerton. Essay on Medals, vol. i. s. 13. Under this term [medallions] are included all the pieces duced by the ancient mints, which, from their superior Le were evidently not intended for circulation as coin, it for other occasions.-Id. Ib. By this the medallist would mean Cawthorn. The Antiquarians. To meddle or mell; Fr. Mesler, mêler, which Skinner derives from the It. Mescolare, and this Menage from the Bar. Lat. Misculare, a dim. of the Lat. Miscere, to mix or mingle. The Danish has megler, melerer. Dr. Jamieson thinks the Fr. is of Gothic origin, and dle; to meddle or to mell being merely to interpose that the primary term is the Sw. Mid, i. e. midone's self between other objects. To mix, to mingle; to mix or mingle, interdeal, or interfere, (sc. among other people and their concerns,) to busy or be busy, to take part or share, in any thing. A medley, a mixture of persons, an affray. R. Brunne, p. 18. Alle tymes in medle euer more first he was.-Id. p. 311. For in no wise dare I more mell As like is now to fall of this.-Chaucer. Dreame. Id. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 330. By divers medling of colours.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. In holy churche of erthely thynge.-Gower. Con. A. Prol. And said, this daie venim is shadde Id. Ib. b. i Whiche medieth with the spirituall.-Id. Ib. b. iii. But they suffred it bycause they would not medell, nor be in no businesse nor prease. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 357. And euery mad medler must now be a maker. Skelton. Speake Parrot. There was no manne that anye meddeling hadde wyth theym, into whose handes they were more lothe to come. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 868. Ther myght wel a ben legges sene tourned vpwarde; ther being a sore medlynge, for they of the hoost alwayes encreased, wherfore it behoued thenglysshmen to withdrawe toward ther fortresse.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 81. He desyred hym that he wolde take on hym the medlyng of the businesse of the realme of France.-Id. Ib. c. 179. The dead knight's sword out of his sheath he drew, With which he cutt a lock of all their heare, Which medling with their blood and earth he threw Into the grave, and gan devoutly sweare. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1. Now siker I see thou dost but clatter, Id. Shepheard's Calender. July. A meddled estate of the orders of the gospell, and the ceremonies of poperie, is not the best way to banish popery. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. iv. s.8. Luc. My lord I know him, 'tis a medling fryer, Peter. I know him for a man diuine and holy, Bp. Hall, b. i. Sat. 8. Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act v. sc. 1. Hence ye prophane! mel not with holy things That Sion's muse from Palestina brings. The medley ended, Hercules Did bring the centaure bound To prison. Warner. Albion's England, b. ii. c. 6. The third rule shall be, the making of some medley or either in leafe or root.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 528. mixture of earth, with some other plants bruised, or shaven, Do not drive away such, as bring thee information, as medlers; but accept them in good part. Id. Ess. of Great Place. How to distinguish between medling innocently from being blameably meddlesome, hic labor, hic opus est. I shall touch some cases in which it is allowable or commendable to meddle with the affairs of others; then I shall propound some general rules according to which such meddlesomeness is commonly blameable. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 21. This the peasants blithe Will quaff, and whistle as thy tinkling team They drive, and sing of Fusca's radiant eyes, Pleas'd with the medley draught.-J. Philips. Cider, b. ii. Honour, that meddlesome, officious ill, Pursues thee e'en to death. Blair. The Grave. But by mediacyon of the lordes it was agreed that Robert shulde haue euery yere durynge his life. iii. M. markes. R. Brunne, p. 102. Note. of God & of men a man For oo God and a medialour is Crist Iesu.-Wiclif. 1 Tym. c. 2. For there is one God, and one (mediator) betwene God and man, whiche is the man Christ Jesus.-Bible, 1551. Ib. For it in soth of kingdomes and of realmes, Is bearer vp and conservatrice, From al mischief and sothfast mediatrice, Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii. Neither Gyngemin thy companyon nor thou neither shall enter in there, either immediately or mediatlye, if ye exclude Christ as ye haue done hitherto.-Fryth. Workes, p. 18. And thereupon was Warwick (by whose cast Daniel. Civil Wars, b. viii. It is certain, that the immediate cause of death, is the resolution or extinguishment of the spirits; and that the destruction or corruption of the organs is but the mediate cause.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 399. The carnall eye looks through God, at the world; the spirituall eye looks through the world, at God; the one of those he seeth mediately, the other, terminatively. Bp. Hall. The Remedy of Prophaneness, b. i. s. 6. Now, upon the birth, when the infant forsaketh the womb, although it dilacerate, and break the involving membranes, yet do these vessels hold, and by the mediation thereof the infant is connected unto the womb, not onely before, but awhile also after the birth. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 5. And in deliv'ring it, lifts up her eyes, If thine angels, O blessed Jesu, desired to look into the great and deep mysterie of the gospel, their longing is satis fied in the sight of thy blessed incarnation, and the full accomplishment of the great office of thy mediatorship. Bp. Hall. The great Mystery of Godliness, s. 11. If it had pleased thee to have commanded Moses and Elias to wait upon thee in thy mediatorie perambulation, and to attend thee at Jerusalem, on the mount of Sion, as they did on the mount of Tabor, whom hadst thou not in a zealous astonishment drawn after thee?-Id. Ib. s. 3. And this every true christian longs and breathes after, that these days of sin and misery may be shortened, that Christ would come in his glory, that his mediatory kingdom being fulfilled, it might be delivered up unto the Father, and that we all might be one, as the Father is in him, and he in the Father. Hopkins. A practical Exposition on the Lord's Prayer. I tell you againe (with an addition of more incongruities still) that God and his divine phisician doe still let bloud in the median vein of the heart. Bp. Hall. Sermon to the Lords of Parliament. It being the undeniable prerogative of the first cause, that whatsoever it does by the mediation of second causes, it can do immediately by itself without them. South, vol. iv. Ser. 11. No: our church cashiers the whole article, [about the invocation of saints] as contumelious to, and inconsistent with the infinitely perfect mediatorship and intercession of Christ. Id. vol. vi. Ser. 1. But poetry no medium can admit, Dryden. The Art of Poetry, c. 4. It is plain, from the form and turn of the expression, (1 Tim. ii. 5) that his mediatorial character and office was meant to be represented as a perpetual character and office, because it is described in conjunction with the existence of God and men, so long as men exist: there is one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ. Paley, Ser. 22. Why didst thou not, O gentle mother-queen! MEDICATE, v. MEDICAL. MEDICALLY. MEDICAMENT. MEDICAMENTALLY. MEDICINABLE. Fr. Médeciner; It. Medicinare; Sp. Medecinar; Lat. Medicina, medicare, mederi, from the Gr. MedEoba, to cure, to heal. Medicine, Fr. Médecin, one who cureth, a physician. To medicine, to give or supply medicine, or healing or salutary physic. To medicate,-to give, to endow with medical or medicinal qualities; to infuse or impregnate with medicinal qualities, or with ingredients having such qualities. Ne hide it nought, for if thou feignest, Gower. Con. A. b. i. Willing by his owne medicinall meekenes that mens hartes should bee lyfted vp. and not with man's pride agayne to be drouned in these inferior thinges.-Barnes. Workes, p. 367. But as manie weedes are right medicinable, so maie you finde in this none so vile, or stinking, but that it hath in it some virtue, if it be rightlie handled. Gascoigne. To the Youth of England. If some infrequent passenger crossed our streets, it was not without his medicated posie at his nose. Bp. Hall. A Sermon of Thanksgiving. Now (what is very remarkable) whereas in the same place he adviseth to observe the times of notable mutations, as equinoxes, and the solstices, and to decline medication ten days before.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 13. That sometimes is found about the heads of children upon their birth, [the silly-how] is therefore preserved with great care, not onely as medical in diseases, but effectual in success concerning the infant and others: which is surely no more then a continued superstition.-Id. Ib. b. v. c. 21. But that which chiefly promoted the consideration of these dayes, and medically advanced the same, was the doctrine of Hyppocrates.-Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 13. The system too of those physicians who profess to follow MEDIOCRE. Fr. Médiocrer, médiocre; As the Fr. MEDIO'CRITY. This low, abject brood Become your servile mind.-Carew. Cœlum Brittannic. A very mediocre poet, one Drayton, is yet taken some He [John Hughes] is too grave a poet for me, and, I think among the mediocribus [some ed. mediocrists] in prose as well as verse.-Swift. To Pope, Sept. 3d. 1735. The most successful and splendid exertions, both in the sciences and arts, (it has been frequently remarked,) have been made by individuals, in whose minds the seeds of genius were allowed to shoot up, wild and free: while, from the most careful and skilful tuition, seldom any thing results above mediocrity. Stewart. The Human Mind, pt. ii. s. 1. MEDITATE, v. Fr. Méditer; It. Meditare; Sp.Meditar; Lat. Meditari, quasi melitari, from the Gr. MeλeTay, from μeλei, curæ est it is (a matter) of care; and, consequently, of thought, reflection. To think carefully, studiously; to keep the thoughts carefully or studiously fixed upon; to dwell upon thoughtfully, considerately, contem They do make such a constitution of a mendicament, as platively; to consider, to contemplate. we now require.-Bacon. History. Of Life & Death. We first affirm that the substance of gold is invincible by the powerfullest action of natural heat, and that not only alimentally in a substantial mutation, but also medicamentally in any corporeal conversion. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5. Bel. Great greefs I see med'cine the lesse. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iv. sc. 2. Cla. The miserable haue no other medicine Meet we the med'cine of the sickly weale, (As sometimes even poysons turn medicinall) the furious prosecution of absurd authoritie increased the zeale of trueth.-Bp. Hall. The Old Religion, c. 2. My purpose and endeavour is, to anatomize this humour of melancholy through all his parts and species, as it is an habite or an ordinary disease, and that philosophically, medicinally, to shew the causes, symptomes, and severall cures of it, that it may be the better avoided. Burton. Democritus to the Reader, p. 76. I would here intreat farther, to what end the commers thither doo drinke oftimes of that medicinable liquor. Holinshed. Descrip. of England, b. ii. c. 23. He made not venom to be our poison, for neither made he death or any deletery medicament upon the earth; but so, that by a slight industry and endeavour of our own they might be turned into great pledges of his love, for the use of men against the cruelty of diseases which were in process of time to rise.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 122. First pouring out the med'cinable bane, To mend thy mounds, to trench, to clear, to soil Dyer. The Fleece, b. i. And favour'd isles with golden fruitage crown'd, But nathless this meditation I put it ay under correction Of clerkes; for I am not textual. Fr. Méditerranée, the Mediterranean, or midearth sea, (Cotgrave.) It. Mediterraneo; Sp. Mediterraneo, from the Lat. Medius, middle, and terra, the land or earth. In the midst, situated in the midst of, surrounded by, earth or land, within land, inland. They that haue seene the mediterran or inner parts of the kingdome of China, do report it to be a most amiable countrey, adorned with plenty of woods, with abundance of fruits and grasse, and with woonderful variety of riuers. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 91. As for example, he that neuer saw the sea will not be persuaded that there is a mediterrane sea. Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 588. And for our own ships, they went sundry voyages, as well to your streights, which you call the Pillars of Hercules, as to other parts in the Atlantique and Mediterrane Seas. Bacon. New Atlantis. Id. The Flower and the Leafe... Thus as I mus'd, I cast aside my eye, Dryden. The Flower and the Leaf. MEED, v. Chaucer. The Persones Prologue, v. 7292. Gower. Con. A. b. ii. Is not done rashly, your first thought is more Beaum. & Fletch. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act i. sc. 1. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10. prefers the A. S. Met-an, occurrere, invenire, adipisci; to meet; meed being that which any one meets with deservedly, in return for service done: or rather, perhaps, That which is meet, convenient, becoming, o fitting, as a reward,-in return for service done or favour bestowed: and thus, generally, a reward or remuneration; reward deserved; desert; i payment, a donation, a bounty. And Or may it not be from the verb, to mete? thus signify The measure; due or deserved; given or pai in return for service done, &c. Mr. Steevens furnishes the instance of the ver from Heywood. Ich habbe y holde hym in hys londe, & my mede ther of y Theruore vnderstond the wel, & geld my mede blyue. Id. p. 31 R. Brunne, p. 2 At myn vnderstandyng he wild tak no mede And as muche mede. for a myte that he offreth A wight, without nedeful compulsion ought medefully It is mine Anna, God it wot, Gower. Con. A. b. j Wyatt. Of his Loue called An: For he toke mede and money of the Scottis, to thentent they myght departe pryuely by nyght, vnfoughte withall. Berners Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 18. Brave be her warres and honourable deeds Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 2. And yet the body meeds a better grave. Heywood. Silver Age, 1613. Plautus the God of gold Is but his steward: no mede but he repaies Seuen-fold aboue itself. Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act i. sc. 1. As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heav'n expect thy meed. Milton. Lycidas. MEEK, v. In Sw. it is Miuk. Skinner MEEK, adj. considers it to be a conseME'EKEN, v. quential usage of make or MEEKLY. mate, æqualis, socius, compar: MEEKNESS. it is, not improbably, the A. S. MEKENING, n. Melc-an, mulc-ere, or mulgere, to soothe, to soften: (by the mere omission of l.) To soothe, to soften, to mollify; to be or cause to be mild, gentle, humble, or lowly, to humiliate or humble. He meketa prout men, and he threatneth warre. R. Gloucester, p. 483. Note. Ver he was mek & mylde ynou, and vayr of fless & felle, Debonere to speke wyth, & wyth pouere men mest. Id. p. 287. Fro Douere vnto Wales the folk tille him mekes. R. Brunne, p. 46. Which Edburge sturied her lorde a yenst giltlese men notwithstandyng that him self was meoke and benynge. Id. p. 12. Note. Philip with grete mekenesse his trouth therto plight. Id. p. 186. Her mygt thou see ensample in hymself one That he was myghtful & meuk.-Piers Plouhman, p. 21. For he that highith himsilf, schal be mekid, and he that mekith himself, schal be enhaunsid.-Wiclif. Matt. c. 23. Lo thi kyng comith to thee meke sittynge on an asse and a foole of an asse undir yoke.-Id. Ib. c. 21. Beholde thy kyng commeth vnto thee, meke and syttynge pon an asse and a colte, the fole of an asse vsed to the jocke-Bible, 1551. Ib. Alle men that wolen lyue mekeli in Crist, as the apostle seith, suffren persecucioun.-Wiclif. Apocalips, Prol. For he hath bihulden the mekenesse of his handmayden. His herte is hard that woll not meke Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. Thou god of loue, and thou goddesse Where is pitee? where is mekenesse ?-Gower. Con. A. b. 1. Wherof ye Danys beyng ware, so lowly meked theym vnto by, and gaue to hym suche gyftes, that the kynge reayned hym of ye great yre yt he had purposed to theym. Fabyan, c. 189. Thyne heart did melt and thou mekedest thy selfe before Te the Lord.-Bible, 1551. 4 Kings, c. 23. Amo sacrificed to all the kerued images whiche Manasseh a father made, and serued them, and mekened not himselfe before the Lord, as Manasseh hys father had mekened hime-Id. 2 Chronicles, c. 23. Thus this lady ledde forth her life ther mekely. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 23. Thys sacrifice is the mortifyinge of the flesche, and kenge of the hart, the praysyng of God, & knowledgyng our seines sinners.-Bible, 1551. Psalme 51. Note. He humbly louted in meeke lowlinesse. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10. Past gloomy bottoms, and high-waving woods, Thus Mary pondring oft, and oft in mind Milton. Paradise Regained, b. ii. But be her fears to cease, VOL. II. Milton. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. Thus God suffered Moses to be unworthily dealt with by his bretheren, and oftentimes afflicted by the unruly rebellions of the Israelites; not to punish his sin, but to manifest his meekness and consequently to glorify the power that gave it.-South, vol. viii. Ser. 11. By inheriting the earth, he meant inheriting those things which are, without question, the greatest blessings upon earth, calmness and composure of spirit, tranquillity, cheerfulness, peace and comfort of mind. Now these, I apprehend, are the peculiar portion and recompence of the meek. Porteus, vol. i. Lect. 6. I, ere thou spak'st, Knew it not good for man to be alone, And no such company as then thou sawst Intended thee for tryal onely brought, To see how thou couldst judge of fit and meet. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. viii. Leon. 'Faith, neece, you tax signior Benedick too much, but hee'l be meet with you, I doubt it not. Shakespeare. Much Adoe about Nothing, Act ii. sc. 3. In whose person, albeit there was nothing to bee misliked, yet was there (she saide) nothing so excellent but that it mought be found in diuers other, that were more meetelie (quoth she) for your estate.-Stow. Edw. V. an. 1482. In both was found that livelihood and meetness By which affection any way was mov'd: In him that shape, in her there was that sweetness, Might make him lik'd, or her to be belov'd. Drayton. Moses his Birth and Miracles, b. i. Apart, to guardian Phoebus next they raise An altar meet, and bid the victims blaze. Apollonius Rhodius. Fawkes. Argonautics, b. ii. ME GRIMS. Fr. Migraine; It. Migrana; Lat. Hemicranium, from the Gr. 'Huikpavia, dolor circa medium caput: nukрaviov, dimidiata capitis pars, nuov, half, and кpaviov, the head. Minshew calls it "a disease that paineth. one halfe of the braine." It is also applied (met.) to morbid fancies or R. Brunne, p. 59. Toward the south side turned thei thar flete, Wherof they be so desirous.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. At the first metynge there was a sore iust, and diuers caste to the erthe on bothe parties, for they wer all well horsed.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 211. Most noble virgin, that by fatal lore Hast learn'd to loue, let no whit thee dismay The hard beginne that meetes thee in the doore And with sharpe fits thy tender hart oppresseth sore. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 3. Till first I knew of thee, What thing thou art, thus double form'd, and why In this infernal vaile first met thou call'st Me Father, and that fantasm call'st my son. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. When all the plain Cover'd with thick embattled squadrons bright Chariots and flaming armes, and fiery steeds Reflecting blaze on blaze, first met his view.-Id. Ib. b.vi. Yor. No, it [his eare] is stopt with other flatt'ring sounds As praises of his state: then there are found Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act ii. sc. 1. Understand this Stethva to be the meeting of the British poets and minstrels for trial of their poems and music sufficiencies, where the best had his reward-a silver harp. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 4. Selden. Illustrations. Fain would she meet the youth with hasty feet, She fain would meet him, but refus'd to meet Before her looks were set with nicest care And well deserv'd to be reputed fair. Addison. Ovid. Metam. b. iv. We can just as easily conceive the connexion and mutual influence of soul and body, as we can explain how two mathematical lines, indefinitely produced, can be for ever approaching each other, and yet never meet. MEET, adj. ME'ETLY. MEETNESS. Porteus, vol. i. Ser. 5. From A. S. Metan, convenire, to convene; consequentially, Convenient, becoming; suited, adapted, fit: and in Shakespeare, "he'll be meet with you," he'll fit you, he'll suit, he'll be even with you. Arcite is ridden anon unto the toun, Like myrth in May is meetest for to make, The same also beeing laid unto the head warme, doth mitigate the paine called the migraine, when as one halfe of the head doth ake.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxv. c. 11. Meagrims and giddiness are rather when we rise, after long sitting, than while we sit.-Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 734. MELANCHOLY, n. MELANCHOLY, adj. MELANCHOLICK, adj. MELANCHOLICK, n. MELANCHOLILY. MELANCHOLINESS. MELANCHOLIOUS. MELANCHOLIst. MELANCHOLIZE, n. from Cogan. Fr. Mélancholier, mélancholie; It. Melanconia; Sp.Melancholia, melancholizarse; Lat. Melancholia; Gr. Meλαγχολία, from μελαινα, black, and xoλn, bile. See the first quotation from Burton, and that It is used by us, met. and consequentially; a depressed or dejected state of mind; a sadness, musing or meditation, to solitude or retirement. heaviness, pensiveness; a disposition to solemn The sauour eke rejoice would any wight, That had be sicke or melancolius, It was so very good and vertuous. Chaucer. The Flower and the Leaf. The name [melancholy] is imposed from the matter, and disease denominated from the materiall cause: as Bruell observes, Μελαγχολία, quasi Μελαιναχολη, from blacke choler. Fracastorius, in his second booke Of Intellect, cals those melancholy, whom abundance of that same depraved humour of blacke choler hath so misaffected, that they belonging to election, will, or other manifest operations of the come mad thence, and dote in most things, or in all, beunderstanding.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 31. But hail thou Goddess sage, and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Milton. Il Penseroso. They cannot I say goe about their more necessary busi- So as she thus melancholicke did ride, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 6. On a pedestal-is set the statue of this young lady, repozing herself in a curious wrought osier chair, all of polished alabaster; melancholily inclining her cheek to the Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. November. right hand-Keepe. Monuments of Westminster, (1683.) p.62. 7 Z 1273 When a boy, he was playsome enough: but withall he had then a contemplative melancholiness. Aubrey. Account of Hobbs, Anecd. 2. p. 600. [When as the mind] though it be found never so deficient and unable to perform the best duty of marriage in a cheerful and agreeable conversation, shall be thought good enough, however flat and melancholious it be. Milton. Doctrine of Divorce, b. i. c. 3. When the melancholist was afraid to sit down for fear of being broken, supposing himself of glass, it had been to little purpose to have declared to him the ridiculousness of his fears.-Glanvill, Ese. 4. None have so high passions as melancholists. H. More. On Enthusiasm, § 25. Such a melancholist as this must be very highly puffed up, and not only fancy himself inspired, but believe himself a special piece of light and holiness that God has sent into the world.-Id. Ib. § 15. In every breeze the power Of philosophic Melancholy comes! His near approach the sudden-starting tear, Despair seldom breeds but in the melancholy tempers, that inclines men to be thoughtful and suspicious; or in such breasts, as have been forced into a præternatural melancholy, by conversing with unskilful spiritual guides, of an indiscreet severity, and pinning their faith upon ill managed discourses about prædestination. South, vol. vii. Ser. 12. When the mind is very deeply impressed with a sense of calamity, for a continuance, and the attention cannot by any means be diverted from it, the subject is in a state of melancholy. This affection manifests itself by dejection of spirits, debility of mind and body, obstinate and insuperable love of solitude, universal apathy, and a confirmed listlessness, which emaciate the corporeal system, and not unfrequently trouble the brain.-Cogan. On the Passions, § 3. c. 2. To be or cause to be, to make, more desirable; to better, to mend, to improve. See AMELIORAte. Sound is likewise meliorated by the mingling of open air with pent air.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 232. Digging yearly about the roots of trees, which is a great means both to the acceleration and melioration of fruits, is practised in nothing but in vines.-Id. Ib. § 433. So that this colour of meliority and preeminence is a signe of enervation and weakness. Id. A Table of the Colours of Good & Evil. Aristotle ascribeth the cause of this meliority or betterness unto the aire.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 613. The more comprehensive a trade is, the more likely it is that it will be capable of being meliorated by natural philosophy.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 408. By an insight into chymistry one may be enabled to make some meliorations (I speak not of transmutations) of mineral and metalline bodies.-Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 354. The order and beauty of the inanimate part of the world, the discernible ends and final causes of them, the To BeλTIOV, or a meliority above what was necessary to be, do evince by a reflex argument, that it is the product and workmanship, not of blind mechanism or blinder chance: but of an intelligent and benign Agent, who by his excellent wisdom made the heavens and the earth: and gives rains and fruitful seasons for the service of man.-Bentley, Ser. 6. Thine is the praise to cultivate the soil; Jago. Edge Hill, b. v. Fr. Mellifier, melliflue; It. Mellificare, mellifluo; Sp. Melifero, melifluo; Lat. Mellificare; Mel; Gr. Meλl, honey. Melliferous,-bearing hoMELLIFLUOUS. ney. Mellifluous, flowing or pouring forth honey; generally,-flowing, abounding, with sweetness, harmony. That mouth of hirs which seemde to flow with mell. Farewell deere sweete, whose wanton wyll to please, Id. Ib. And [Canaan] being mountainous, could not but abound with melliferous plants of the best kind. Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. iv. c. 2. From off the boughs each morn We brush mellifluous dewes, and find the ground Cover'd with pearly grain.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. From whose [Socrates] mouth issu'd forth Join'd to these Gresset's clear pipe, distinct behind, Cooper. The Apology of Aristippus, Ep. 3. Falconer. Shipwreck, c. 3. He [Wotton] was rather struck with the pastoral mellifuence of its lyric measures, which he styles a certain Doric delicacy in the songs and odes. v. Warton. Milton. Poems, Pref. In judging of the air, many things besides the weather ought to be observed; in some countries, the silence of grasshoppers, and the mellification of bees.-Arbuthnot. ME'LLOW, Skinner thinks-from the ME'LLOW, adj. A. S. Mearwa, soft: Junius,ME'LLOWNESS. that it is something similar ME'LLOWY. to mealy-mouthed. It probably is a consequential usage of the A. S. Melewe, melu, from the softness of meal. To be or become soft, through ripeness or maturity; to ripen, to mature; to free from hardness, harshness or asperity; to soften. Your chekes embolned like a mellow costard. Id. Councill to Master Withipoll. Then was I as a tree Whose boughs did bend with fruit. But in one night, A storm, or robbery, (call it what you will,) Shooke downe my mellow hangings. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iii. sc. 3. So age a mature mellowness doth set Denham. Of Old Age, pt. iv. Thomson. Spring. Hark! the mighty queen of sound, MELODY. Gr. Meλwdia, from μeλ, honey, And thus with alle blisse and melodie Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2999. On which he made on nightes melodie. Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3215. And ouer this of suche nature Gower. Con. A. b. i. Orpheus, the Tracian, harped melodiously, I mean of tast, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flours, To whom the nymphs upon their lyres And with their most melodious quires Drayton. The Muses' Elysium, Nymph. 1. Milton. Lycidas. She touch'd him with her harp, and rais'd him from the ground; The shaken strings melodiously resound. Cowley. The Complaint. Chiron mollify'd his cruel mind Fawkes. Braham Park. Langhorn. Ode to the River Eden. ME'LON. Fr. Mélon; It. Mellone; Sp. Melon; Lat. Melo; Gr. Mnλov; an apple. A kind of pompion or cucumber so called because they come up in forme of a quince, mali cotonei effigie," (Plin. b. xix. c. 5.) We remembre the fyshe whiche we shulde eate in Egyp for noughte and of the cucumbers & melouns, lekes, onyouns and garleke.-Bible, 1551. Numeri, c. 11. Take cucumbers, or pumpions, and set them (here and there) amongst musk melons, and see whether the melon. will not be more winy and better tasted. Bacon. Naturall Historie, $486 The muse might tell what culture will entice Granger. The Sugar Cane, b. iv A. S. Melt-an, miltan, myltan Dut. Schmelten; Ger. Schmelt zen; Sw. Smalta; fundere liquefieri, to liquefy or dis MELTINGNESS. solve. MELT, v. MELTER. MELTING, n. MELTINGLY. This pandare, that nigh malt for wo and routh, And if he toke his flight Surrey. Complaint of a dying Louer, & & haue made the a calfe of molte metal, & haue w shipped it.-Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 32. The melter melteth in vayne, for the euell is not tak awaye from them.-Id. Jeremye, c. 6. Her tears falling into the water, one might have thoug she began meltingly to be metamorphosed to the runni river.-Sidney. Arcadia. Long thus he liv'd, slumbring in sweet delight, Spenser. Britannia's Ida, c What was the mule in Plutarch, after his lying down in the water, troubled with the melting of that burden of salt which he carryed.-Bp. Hall. Christ. Moderation, b. i. s. 12. Seest thou the Chaldean tyrant beset with the sacred bowles of Jerusalem, the late spoils of God's temple; and (in contempt of their owner) carowsing healths to his queenes, cabines, peeres, singing amidst his cups triumphant carols of praise to his molten and carved gods? Id. Heaven upon Earth, s. 15. Nothing could have been spoke more gently, and yet mare forcibly, to melt him down into a penitential sorrow for, and an abhorrence of those two foul deviations from the aw of God.-South, vol. vii. Ser. 7. By this law five per cent. gain on all our milled money l be given to be shared between the possessor and the seter of our milled money, out of the honest creditor and kadlord's pocket.-Locke. On Lowering Interest. Give me, O thou Father of compassion, such a tenderness and meltingness of heart, that I may be deeply affected with a the miseries and calamities, outward or inward, of my bethren, and diligently employ all my abilities for their succour and relief.-Whole Duty of Man. Collect for Charity. The charming melter of his purse. Lloyd. A Familiar Epistle to a Friend. Then all the pleasing scenes of life appear, MEMBER. Hamilton. To a Young Lady. Fr. Membre; It. Membro; MEMBERSHIP. Sp. Miembro; Lat. Membrum. Of unknown etymology. A limb; a piece, pait, or portion of a whole frame or body; an individual of a collected body. Some hii lete honge Bi hor membres an hey, in pines wel stronge. That vnto him, whiche the head is, The other shape, Gower. Con. A. Prol. If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none, Distinguishable in member, joint or limb. Is there Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. Ever a good heartist or a member-percer or a Me that?-Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Pilgrim. Act iv. sc. 1. But O, that man, whose mystick obligation Beaumont. Psyche, c. 10. s. 278. Dryden. Annus Mirabilis. The upmost thin skin of any thing; also the Flor pilling between the bark and the tree. The skin is a membrane of all the rest the most large and thick, formed of the mixture of seed and blood; the coverg and ornament of parts that are under it. P. Fletcher. The Purple Island, c. 2. Note 13. Consider its variety, suited to various foods, some memceous, agreeable to the frugivorous or carnivorous -Derham. Physico-Theology, b. vii. c. 2. 21. The heart, stomach, guts, sanguineous, and other embraneous vessels, are now, all acknowledge to be mus-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 5. s. 22. They easily, by their saline pungency, offend the tender ureters and membranous bladders of those, that are troubled with the stone or strangury.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 192. MEMORY. MEMORABLE. MEMORATIVE. MEMO'RIAL, adj. MEMORIAL, n. MEMORIALIST. MEMORIZE, V. MEMORANDUM. MEMENTO. Fr. Mémoire; Lat. It. and Sp. Memoria; Memor, from memini, pret. of the obsolete meneo, or meno; and meno from the Gr. Mev-ew; manere, to stay or remain. The contract μνάω, from the idea of staying or remaining, is excellently well transferred (says Lennep) to the faculty of the mind, hence called memory; in which things remain securely preserved; and Locke calls memory, The store-house of our ideas. It would perhaps be more discriminating to call the mind itself (met.) the store-house of ideas received into it; that in which such ideas remain: and memory, that faculty which brings forward or recalls such ideas as remain so stored or preserved. It is also applied, generally, to The keeping, preserving, retaining in mind; recollection, remembrance. Also (as in Spenser) acts or ceremonies in remembrance of. And haddest mercy on that man for memento sake. For knightly pite and memoriell Chaucer. The Complaint of Creseide. O Salomon, richest of all richesse, Gower. Con. A. b. vi. Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10,117. Sometime I drew into memoire, Howe sorowe maie not euer last. As I fynde in a boke compiled To this matere an olde historie, The whiche comth nowe to my memoire.-Id. Ib. His bodye might well be there, But as of thought and memorie His herte was in purgatorie. And so recorde I my lesson And write in my memoriall, What I to hir telle shall Right all the matter of my tale. Id. Ib. b. i. Id. Ib. b. iv. Then that it is onelye a sygne memoriall, and token of Christes death and passion.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 526. Bard. Why Sir John, my face does you no harme. Fals. No Ile be sworne: I make as good vse of it, as many a man doth of a death's head, or a memento mori. Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 3. Their diriges, their trentals, and their shrifts, Their memories, their singings and their gifts. Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale. Memory, the Great Keeper or Master of the Rolles of the soule, a power that can make amendes for the speed of time, in causing him to leave behinde him those things, which else he would so carry away, as if they had not beene. Bp. Hall. The Righteous Mammon. Use the memory of thy predecessour fairly and tenderly; for if thou dost not, it is a debt will sure be payd when thou art gone.-Bacon. Ess. Of Great Place. Yet registers of memorable things Would helpe (great prince) to make thy judgement sound Which to the eye a perfect mirrour brings, Where all should glasse themselves who would be crown'd. Stirling. To Prince Henry. For The same thoughts do commonly meet us in the same places, as if we had left them there till our returne. that the mind doth secretly frame to itselfe memorative heads, whereby it recalls easily the same conceits. Bp. Hall. Holy Observations, No. 87. Though of their names in hevn'ly records now Be no memorial, blotted out and rais'd, By their rebellion, from the books of life. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i. They living cared not to cherishe No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names for ever memorise. Spenser. The Ruines of Time. Which to succeeding times shall memorize your stories, To either country's praise, as both your endless glories. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 5. And ouer against this memorandum (of the king's own hand) "Otherwise satisfied." Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 212. This laying up of our ideas in the repository of the memory, signifies no more but this, that the mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions, which it has once had, with this additional perception annex'd to them, that it has had them before. Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 10. s. 2. Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. Pope. Essay on Criticism. That man who has tears to spend at the memorial of a lost friend, but none to shed at the thoughts of a lost innocence, a wasted conscience, and a provoked God, has but too much cause to suspect the truth of his sorrow and the goodness of his heart.-South, vol. ix. Ser. 1. With memorandum-book for every town At length she found herself decay, ME/NACE, v. MENACE, n. ME'NACER. MENACING, n. MENACINGLY. Cotton, Fab. 5. Also anciently written Manace, manass. Fr. Menacer; It. Minacciare; Sp. Amenazar; Lat. Minacia, from minari, to threaten. To threaten; to denounce evil or punishment. R. Brunne, p. 64. And gretly he manasside hem that thei schulden not make him knowen.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 3. And ghe Lordis do the same thingis to hem forghyunge manassis. Id. Effesis, c. 5. And though your grene youthe floure as yet, Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 7988. And will dispise the sea, menasyng with floudes. Chaucer. Boecius, b. ii. Now cometh manace, that is an open folie; for he that oft manaceth, he threteth more than he may performe ful oft time.-Id. The Persones Tale. Whiche is that mortall enemy, That thou manacest to be dede.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii. Suche wordes and manasshes abasshed greatly ye cardynals, for they hadde rather a dyed confessours than martyrs. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 327. They shewed howe the erle gretly manasshed the, and send the worde how they shulde neuer haue peace with hym. Id. Ib. c. 351. Sir Robert answered, by god, haralde, for all the manysshing of your maisters, I will nat so lese my castell, and if so be yt the duke cause my men to dye, I shall serue him in lyke case.-Id. Ib. c. 311. With whose reproach, and odious menace, The knight emboyling in his aughtie hart, Knitt all his forces, and gan soon unbrace His grasping hold.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 4. Though he and his curs'd crew Fierce sign of battel make, and menace high, Or like the sons of Vulcan vomit smoke, Yet will they soon retire if he but shrink.-Millon. Comus. Setting vpon Verginius manacingly they besought him, sometime to take the empire himselfe, sometime to be their spokesman to Caecina and Valens. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 78. The Trojan threats With arms or aid, his vanquish'd enemy: Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. xii. Is it not experience which renders a dog apprehensive of pain, when you menace him or lift up the whip to beat him? Hume. On Human Understanding, s. 9. With awful grace superior Godfrey smil'd, |