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: LUX, v LU'XATED. the Lat. Luzare. Philips. Anacreon, Ode i Fr. Luxation, 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 amict us, what shall the racking of the whole body, and the torturing of the soul.-Bp. Hall. Heaven upon Earth, 8.16. If thou wert laid up of the gout, or some rupture, or luxation of somo 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, Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xi. The bone lucated, 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 luxation.-Id. Ib. LUXURY. LUXURIANT. LUXURIANCE. LUXU'RIANCY. LUXURIANTLY. LUXU'RIATE, V. LUXU'RIETY. 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 luxurious turmentour, dare dooen all felonie vn- And thus therefore 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, Cowper. Expostulation. Littleton. To Dr. Ayscough. LYCANTHROPY. Fr. Lycanthropie, from the Gr. Aukos, a wolf, and avepwтos, a man. "A frenzie or melancholie, which causeth the patient (who thinks he is turned woolf) to flee all company, and hide himself in dens and corners," (Cotgrave.) These changes are not imaginary, as in the case of lycanthropie, and delusions of jugling sorserers, but reall, and unfained. Bp. Hall. The Estate of a Christian. It is contrary to the delusions of lycanthropy; there, he that is a man thinks himselfe a beast; here, he that is a Gower. Con. A. b. vii. beast thinks himself a man, and draws others' eyes into the same errour.-Id. St. Paul's Combat. His drugs, his drinks, and sirups doth apply, To heat his blood, and quicken luxury. But wit's like a luxuriant vine: Unless to virtue's prop it join, Drayton. The Owl. LYM. hound. 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. 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 lascivious and beastly.-Hakewill. Apologie, b. iv. s. 10. To spend the time luxuriously 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, 8. 5. Luxury 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 So written by Shakespeare for Lime Fr. Lymphe, lymphatique; Lat. Lympha, which Vossius says is nympha, aquæ LYMPH, n. LYMPHATICK, adj. LYMPHATICK, n. filia: (n changed into 7.) Lymphatick, as the Fr. Lymphatique, watery; allayed or mixed with water; also mad, furious, bestraught; giddy, fantastical." Lat. Lymphatus, lymphaticus; credebant enim nymphas, si conspicerentur, furorem immittere, (Festus.) See Hor. Od. 19. lib. ii. Lymphaticus, quod aquam timeat, (Isidorus.) See Vossius. Water, a watery liquor. And (so) the moisture, which the thirsty earth 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 Has from profane embraces disengag'd Armstrong. The Art of Preserving Health, b. il. 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 sangulferous; 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. Lince; Sp. Lynce; Lat. Lynx; Gr. Avy, so called from Aukn, light. Merlyne meneth of.-B. Gloucester, p. 522. Note. Me troweth he was the lynx al thyng thurlyng, of whiche But as experience with rare proofes hath showne And when sweet sleep his heavy eyes had seiz'd, LYRE. LY'RICK, adj. LY'RICKS. LY'RIST. datur voces. Maynwaring. Ovid. Melam. b. v. Fr. Lyre; It. Lira; Sp. Lyra; Lat. Lyra; Gr. Aupa, perhaps (Vossius) from Avei, solvere, dissolvere, quia in multas divi And thus, beneath her window, did he touch Sleep, sleep again, my lyre! Nor gentle thoughts in her inspire. Id. Ib. Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iv. As Chiron mollify'd his cruel mind Dryden. Ovid. Melam. 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, 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 [Aschylus] versification with the intermixture of lyric composition is more various than that of Shakspeare. Observer, No. 70. 12 M 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) of macaroni to the person, see the quotation from Spectator: the more modern usage is A spruce beau, a fopling. Donne appears to intend, A conceited pretender, a frivolous, tiresome intruder. So I sigh, and sweat, Donne, Sat. 4. 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; To dress, and look like aukward Frenchmen here; 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. MACE. (Flem. Masse, clava, Kilian;) Fr. Massue; It. Mazza; Sp. Maza; Mid. Lat. Maxuca, a club, from the Lat. Massa. R. Gloucester uses matis, i. c. clubs, says Hearne. A club, a staff; a staff (borne as an ensign of office.) Tho heo were thorg out ymengd with swerdes & with mace. Normanz and Burgolons, with lance, suerd, and mace. Deferre the spoile of the citie vntill night: Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Hen. VI. Act iv. sc. 7. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xi. John Bishop of Lincoln, with purse-bearer, mace-bearer, six boy-angels playing on musical instruments, and six A very neat and curious print. Walpole. Catalogue of Engravers, vol. v. Latin verses. MA'CERATE, v. MACERATION. MA'CILENCY. This is the design and the mischievous issue, which to cover and to propagate, the cunning machinalor 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. Eneis, 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. Fr. Macérer; It. Macerare; Sp. Macerar; Lat. Macerare; macrum reddere, attenuare; to make lean, or lank; macer, from the Gr. Marpos, long. (See To EMACIATE.) Macerate is extended to things which are rendered soft and tender, i. e. the juices of which are all extracted by being soaked in water. Cotgrave imagery of the poet ? or is it in itself too sublime for scenical well explains the Fr. Macérer "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 aud 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. MA'CHINATE, v. MACHINA'TION, v. MACHINATOR. MACHINE. MACHINERY. MACHINIST. Fr. Machiner; It. Macchinare; Sp. Machinar; Lat. Machinari, which Vossius derives from the Gr. Mede dal, 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 de vise. 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. Has the insufficiency of machinists hitherto disgraced the contrivances to keep pace with? Stevens. General Note 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 luininous, 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. MACROCOSM. Compounded of the Gr. Makрos, large, and kooμos, 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; By ways nor seen nor understood Which e'en his angels vainly might explore. Jones. An Epode. From the Tragedy of Sohrab. MACTATION. 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. MACULATE, v. MACULATE, adj. Sandys. Psalm, p. 96. MACULA'TION. spot. Bp. Hall. Christian Moderation, b. il. s. 15. Rule 11. stain, Fr. Maculer; It. Maculare; Sp. Macular; Lat. Maculare, from macula, a To spot or distain with spots or specks; to Sayenge, that they wold not maculate the honour of theyr people wyth suche a reproche, to be saide, that they had made aliaunce with disars. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 26. With that thy rare green eye, which never yet I speake not, be thou true, as fearing thee: MAD, v. MAD, adj. MA'DDEN, v. MA'DDISH. MA'DDINGLY. MA'DLY. MA'DMAN. Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act iv. sc. 4. Skinner says, Gemaad, gemæd, insanus, vecors. It. Matto, stultus. The older etymologists refer our Eng. Mad to the Greek; but do not agree upon the specific source. Serenius, from the Goth. Mod, anger. MA'DNESS. Tooke, from the A. S. Met-an, somniare, to mete, to dream; past part. Mætt, mad. Tooke also disputes the Greek origin ascribed to the It. Matto. The Greek derivatives (he observes) in the Italian proceed through the Latin; and in the Latin, there is nothing which resembles Matto. 'Twas then, the madding Monarchs to compose,. The Pylian Prince, the smooth-speech'd Nestor rose, Her mien, her shape, her temper, eyes, and tongue, Parnell. An Elegy to an Old Beauty. And Madness laughing in his ireful mood. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. Herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, That madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them, but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.-Locke. Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 2. s. 13. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray. Gray. Elegy. The legislature, to prevent all abuses incident to such private custody, hath thought proper to interpose its authority by statute 14 Geo. IlI. c. 49. (continued by 19 Geo. III. c. 15.) (16.) for regulating private mad-houses. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 8. Is it because Liberty in the abstract may be classed among Madness is popularly applied to such a disorder the blessings of mankind that I am seriously to felicitate a or disorganization, such an insanity or unsound-mad-man, who has escaped from the protecting restraint ness of the mental faculties, as disables a man from and wholesome darkness of his cell, on his restoration to the government of himself, or the management of the enjoyment of light and liberty. his own affairs. Mad,-insane, or unsound of understanding, disordered or distracted to the loss of reason, to a violent, furious excess; to frenzy or delirium; furious, frantic, delirious. See the quotations from Drummond and Gray. And manye of hem seiden, he hath a deuel, and maddith; what heren ye him?-Wiclif. Jon, c. 10. And these wordis were seyn bifore hem as madnesse and thei bileueden not to hem.-Id. Luke, c. 24. Festus seide with greet voice, Poul, thou maddest, many lettres turnen thee to woodnesse. And Poul seide, I madde not, thou best Festus, but I speke out the wordes of treuthe and sobrenesse.-Id. Dedis, c. 26. Festus said we a lowde voyce. Paule, ya arte besydes thy selfe. Muche learninge hath made ye mad. And Paul said: I am not mad, most dere Festus: but speake ye woordes of trueth and soberness.-Bible, 1551. Ib. Sufficeth thee, but if thy wittes madde, Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3555. For John Baptist (as they thought) was to mad to lyue so strayte a life, and to refuse to be iustified therby. Tyndall. Workes, p. 232. But what wyl ye say if ye see me that are taken and reputed wise, laugh much more maddelye than he? Sir T. More. Workes, p. 73. What sweet delight a quiet life affords, Gent. [Such a one] I much mistake else, Beaum. & Fleich. The Pilgrim, Act iv. sc. 1. Run maddingly affrighted through the villages. Id. Women Pleased, Act iv. sc. 1. For as to him who Cotis did upbraid, Dor. And is your hate so mortal? But to his qualities, his mad-cap follies, Burke. On the French Revolution. MA'DAM. mina. } Madame, ma damoiselle, mia donna, mia donzella, my dame, my damsel. "Alas!" heo seyde, " ys my fader y brogt in such doelful cas ?" "Mid how mony knygtes ys he come?" the other ageyn seyde; Madame, bute mid o mon. R. Gloucester, p. 35. "Certes, madame," quath thys other, "so ne may yt nogt be." Id. p. 289. Madame, I am a man of thyne, That in thy courte haue long serued.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. In the colleges many of the young divines, and those in next aptitude to divinity, have been seen, prostituting the shame of that ministry, which either they had, or were nigh having, to the eyes of courtiers and court-ladies, with their grooms and madamoisellaes.-Millon. Apol. for Smectym. MA'DDER. A. S. Madre; Dut. Meed; It. Madera; which latter, Skinner thinks, may be, q. d. materia tinctoria. Minshew, from Dut. Meeden, tingere, to tinge, to dye; but there appears no authority for such a word. The first is madder, (rubia,) in great request among diers and curriers for to set a colour upon their wooll and leather, right necessarie. The best of all and most commended is our madder of Italie, principally that which groweth about vilages neare unto our citie of Rome. Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 3. Madder also afforded something peculiar and very differing from what we have newly mentioned. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 750. The cultivation of madder was, for a long time, confined by the tythe to the United Provinces, which, being Presbyterian countries, and upon that account exempted from this destructive tax, enjoyed a sort of monopoly of that useful dying drug against the rest of Europe. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 2. MA'DRIGAL. Fr. and Sp. Madrigale, It. Madriale, madrigale; also more anciently written mandriale, (Menage,) from the It. and Sp.Mandra; Fr. Mandre; Lat. Mandra, a sheepfold, or any place for sheep and shepherds to take shelter in; and thus madrigal was originally applied to chanson de berger, the shepherd's song. See Menage's French and Italian Etymologies; he derives tho Lat. Mandra, from the Gr. Avтрov, a cave. While shaggy satyres, tripping o'er the strands, Stand still at gaze, and yeeld their sences thrals, To the sweet cadence of your madrigals. Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 4. The madrigal may softer passions move, Dryden. Art of Poetry, c. 2. And thoughtful lovers to the winds complain, (Kilian.) The Dut. is also written Muffelen, and Skinner thinks,-omnia a sono ficta; but see MUFFLE. To stutter, or stammer. Yet notwithstanding he deliuered his speeches by reason of his palseie, in such staggering and mafting wise, &c. Holinshed. Ireland, an. 1532. The familiar friends and schollers (by report) of Plato did his stammering and maffling speech. imitate him in stooping forward: and those of Aristotle in Holland. Plutarch, p. 74. They also abuse their power, and go too far in their commandements, (for so they be called at the wine) who enjoyne stutters, stammerers, and maflers to sing, or bald-pates to kembe their heads, or lame creeples to go upright on their feet without halting.-Id. lb. p. 535. Lights on a heap of nitrous powder, laid Millon. Paradise Lost b. iv. Thus useful arms in magazines we place, Pope. Essay on Criticism. We essayists who are allowed but one subject at a time are by no means so fortunate as the writers of magazines, who write upon several. If a magaziner be dull upon the Spanish war, he soon has us up again with the ghost in Cock-lane.-Goldsmith, Ess. 9. Urban or Sylvan, or whatever name Byrom. The Passive Participle's Petition. MAGGOT. Goth. and A. S. Matha; Dut. MA'GOTTY. Made, maede, maeye, which latter Kilian (as Junius adds) derives from Macyen, metere, depascere; to feed upon. The Dut. MADEFACTION. Fr. Madéfier; Lat. Ma-Mayen is from the Goth. Mat-yan or mat-gan, the defieri, madefacere, madefactum; to moisten, to become moist. Lat. Mad-ere; Gr. Mud-av; to wet, to soak. A wetting, making or being wet. Water, being contiguous with aire, cooleth it, but moisteneth it not, except it vapour. The cause is, for that heat and cold have a virtual transition, without communication of substance; but moisture not: and to all madefaction there is required an imbibition.-Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 865. MADGE-HO'WLET. In French called Ma third person of which is matgith, that which eateth. And see MOTH. Your worm is your onely emperour for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat vs, and we fat ourselfe for magots. Shakespeare. Hamle, Act iv. sc. 3. Out of the sides and back of the most common caterpillar, which feeds upon cabbage, cole-wort, and turnep-leaves, which we have described in the catalogue of Cambridge plants, we have seen creep out small maggols to the number sometimes of threescore or more, whichr so soon as ever they came forth, began to weave themselves silken cases of a came out thence in the form of small flies with four wings. Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. Beaum. & Fletch. Monsieur Thomas, Act i. sc. 2. chette, whence, or from Madge, for Margaret, and yellow colour, wherein they changed, and after some time La. Out you mad-headed ape, a weazell hath not such a deale of spleene, as you are tost with. Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act ii. sc. 3. VOL. II. howlet, Skinner forms the word. See OWL. I'le sit in a barn with Madge-howlet, and catch mice first. B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act ii. sc. 2. 1241 MAGIC, adj. MAGIC, n. MAGICAL. MAGICALLY. Fr. Magique; It. Magica; Sp. Magica: Lat. Magica; Gr. Μαγικη, μαγεια, from μα yos, and this from the Persian. 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. Here is the deficience:-Physicians have not set down and delivered over certain experimental medicines for the cure of particular diseases, besides their own conjectural and magisterial descriptions.-Bacon. On Learning, b. ii. I finde a vast chaos of medicines, a confusion of receipts and magistrals, amongst writers, appropriated to this disease, some of the chiefest I will rehearse. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 382. Let it be some magistrall opiate. Bacon. History of Life and Death, p. 29. Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,606. liberty to others, to assume to himself such a licence to What a presumption is this for one, who will not allow controul so magistrally.-Bishop Bramhall against Hobbes. The physicians have frustrated the fruit of tradition and Id. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,214. experience by their magistralities, in adding, and taking out, and changing quid pro quo, in their receipts, at their pleasures.-Bacon. On Learning, b. ii. In al that lond magician was non, Jason, whiche sigh his fader olde, Of art magike, whiche she couth, She wolde make ayenewarde.newe.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. And writing straunge characters on the grownd, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ili. c. 3. It is confessed by all of understanding, that a magician (according to the Persian word) is no other than Divinorum cultor et interpres, a studious observer and expounder of divine things: and the art itself (I mean the art of natural magick) no other, Quam naturalis philosophie 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, Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iii. sc. 3. 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 Waller. Virgil. Eneis, b. iv. Some have fancied that envy has a certain magical force in it, and that the eyes of the envious have by their fascina tion blasted the enjoyments of the happy.-Spectator, No.19. There dire magicians threw their mists around, And wise men walk'd as on enchanted ground. Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. We read, in the Book of Exodus, of an express trial of skill, if we may be allowed the expression, between Moses and the magicians of Egypt, in the exercise of miraculous powers; in which the magicians were completely foiled,not because their feats were not miraculous, but because their power, as they were at last driven to confess, extended not to those things which Moses did.-Horsley, vol. 1. Ser.11. The arts of magic were equally condemned by the public opinion and by the laws of Rome; but as they tended to gratify the most imperious passions of the heart of man, they were continually proscribed, and continually practised. Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 25. These mighty piles of magic-planted rock, MAGISTERY. MAGISTE'RIAL. MAGISTERIALLY. MAGISTERIALNESS. MAGISTRALL. MAGISTRALI.Y. MAGISTRA'LITY. Mason. Caractacus. Magistery, as used by Chemists, is explained in the quotation from Boyle. And see MAGISTRACY. Magisterial, masterlike, with the authority of a master, in the manner of a master; authoritative, domineering; powerful, efficacious, of sovereign or supreme power or efficacy. Upon this ground Paracelsus, in his Archidoxis, extracteth the magistery of wine; after four monthes digestion in horse-dung, exposing it unto the extremity of cold; whereby the aqueous parts will freeze, but the spirit retire, and be found uncongealed in the center. Brown. Fulgar Errours, b. ii, c. 1. Bp. Hall. Answer to the Vindication of Smectymnuus, s. 2. Although majestery be a term variously enough employed by chymists, and particularly used by Paracelsus to signify very different things; yet the best notion I know of it, and that which I find authorized even by Paracelsus in some passages, where he expresses himself more distinctly is, that it is a preparation whereby there is not an analysis made, of the body assigned, nor an extraction of this or that principle, but the whole, or very near the whole body, by the help of some additament, greater or less, is turned into a body of another kind.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 637. Those who have fairly and truly examin'd, and are thereby got past doubt in all the doctrines they profess and govern themselves by, would have a juster pretence to require others to follow them: but these are so few in number, and find so little reason to be magisterial in their opinions, that nothing insolent.and imperious is to be expected from them. Locke. Of Human Understanding, b. iv. c. 16. 8. 4. I have of late years met with divers such vain pretenders, who blush not to talk of rhetorick more magisterially than Aristotle or Tully would.-Id. Ib. He [Dr. Tully] chargeth him [Bull] with too much precipitancy and magisterialness in judging. Nelson. Life of Dr. George Bull, s. 40. Acanthe here, When magisterial duties from his home Her father call'd, had entertain'd the guest. 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; MAGISTRA'TICK. Sp. Magistrado; Lat. 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. MeyloTOS, 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 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. Magistrates 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. Id. Ib. MAGNALITY. Low Lat. Magnalis, magnalia, 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. MAGNANIMITY. MAGNA'NIMOUS. MAGNA'NIMOUSLY. Fr. Magnanime; It. Magnanimo; Sp. Magnanimo; Lat. Magnani mus, i.e. magnus animus; of or pertaining to, having or possessing, a great mind. See MAGNIFY. 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 magnanimilic. 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 Governour, b. iii. c. 13. I seeme to see a farre off (for my comfort) the highe and triumphant vertue called magnanimity accompanied with to miserie as iust plague appointed for my portion? Magindustrious diligence.-What shal I do then? Shall I yeld nanimity 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; Both striv'd for death; magnanimous debate! 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, Thomson. Liberty, pt. iii. extraordinary than his patient endurance of pain and conIn the height of his agonies, with a magnanimity not less tumely, 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 2. On th' other syde an hidious rock is pight 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. 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, 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; 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. MAGNIFY, v. MAGNIFICK. MAGNIFICO. dize. Fr. Magnifier; It. Magnificare; Sp. Magnificar; Lat. Magnificare, q. d. magnum facere, to make or cause to be great: magnificus, qui magna facit, who does great things. A. S. Mag-en; Lat. Magn us. See MAY, and MIGHT. To enlarge, to amplify, to augment, to aggranMagnificence,-greatness or grandeur; but applied rather to the splendour, the splendid pomp, the sumptuousness, of grandeur, than to simple grandeur itself. Magnificent,-in Shakespeare, pretending to greatness. And anoon he saygh and suede hym and magnifiede God, and alle the puple as it saigh gaf herynge to God. Wiclif. Luke, c. 18. To God aloone oure Savyour bi Ihesu Crist oure Lord be glorie and magnifying, empire and power bifore alle worldis, and now and into alie worldis of worldis amen. Id. Judas, c. 2. I thought to pray her high magnificence. 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. Salamon was in a greate deale lesser tyme builded, than will, in a great one, as in the circles of the heavenly orbs, 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 A Prince is never so magnificent Massinger. The Emperor of the East, Act ii. sc. 1. 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. [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. parts, in some measure proportioned to the magnitude of his We commonly find in the ambitious man a superiority of designs.-Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 4. 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 Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iv. called Mahomet, Mahon, Where the fond ape himselfe uprearing hy Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale. 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 Millon. 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 Yalden. On Sir Willoughby Aston. Where's now the vast magnificence, which made 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. Dycr. 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 Mystagogica 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 law, and the Mahometan, which in some things copics after countries, it is made one part of their religion: the Jewish 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. 256. From all those differential marks, I am inclired to suspect that our old structures have been new-named, and Maho metanised without sufficient proof of their Arabic origin. Swinburne. Spain, Let. 44 |