Why didst thou not, O gentle mother-queen!
As judge and mediatress stand between,
When the feed guards in mighty ambush lay?
Lewis. Statius, b. vii.

MEDICATE, v. MEDICATION. ME'DICABLE.

MEDICAL.

MEDICALLY.

MEDICAMENT.

MEDICAMENTALLY. MEDICATIVE. MEDICINE, V. ME'DICINE, n. MEDICINAL. MEDICINALLY.

MEDICINABLE.

Fr. Médeciner; It. Medicinare; Sp. Medecinar; Lat. Medicina, medicare, mederi, from the Gr. MedEolai, 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 me

dicinal qualities; to infuse or impregnate with medicinal qualities, or with ingredients having such qualities.

Ne hide it nought, for if thou feignest,
I can do no medicine.

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.

They do make such a constitution of a mendicament, as 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. il. c. 5.

Bel. Great greefs I see med'cine the lesse.

Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iv. sc. 2.

Cla. The miserable haue no other medicine
But only hope. Id. Meas. for Meas. Act iil. se. 1.

Meet we the med'cine of the sickly weale,
And with him pour we in our Countries purge,
Each drop of vs. Il. Macbeth, Act v. sc. 2.

(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 tine to rise.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 122.

First pouring out the med'cinable bane,
The heart, her tears had rins'd, she bath'd again.
Dryden. Sigismonda & Guiscardo.

To mend thy mounds, to trench, to clear, to soil
Thy grateful fields, to medicate thy sheep,
Hurdles to weave, and cheerly shelters raise,
Thy vacant hours require.
Dyer. The Fleece, b. 1,
And favour'd isles with golden fruitage crown'd,
Where tufted flowrets paint the verdant plain
Wicie every breeze shall med'cine every wound.
Shenstone, Elegy 20.

The system too of those physicians who profess to follow nature in the treatment of diseases, by watching and aiding her medicative powers, assumes the same doctrine as its fundamental principle.

Stewart. The Human Mind, vol. ii. c. 4. s. 6.

MEDIOCRE.
MEDIOCRIST.

MEDIO/CRITY.
MEDIETY.

Fr. Médiocrer, médiocre ; It. Mediocre; Sp. Mediocre; Lat. Mediocris, from medius and ocris, quod locum signi

ficat, (Vossius.) As the Fr.Médiocre, "Mean; moderate, indifferent; reasonable, competent, neither too big nor too little," Cotgrave.

This low, abject brood That fix their seats in mediocrity,

Become your servile mind.-Carew. Coelum Brillannic. Mediocrity is not, according to Aristotle's definition, necessary unto virtue. One cannot love his country too well; tho' to save that, he loseth his life. Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. ii. c. 7. Which [syrens] notwithstanding were of another description, containing no fishy composure, but made up of man and bird; the human mediely variously placed not only above but below.-Brown. Fulgar Errours, b. v. c. 19.

A very mediocre poet, one Drayton, is yet taken some notice of, because Selden writ a few notes on one of his poems.-Pope. To Dr. Warburton, Nov. 27, 1742.

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.

MEDITERRANE.

MEDITERRANEAN.

MEDITERRANEOUS.

Fr. Méditerranée, tho Mediterranean, or mid earth 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.

It is found in mountains and mediterraneous parts. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 4.

I know there is nothing more undetermined among the learned than the voyage of Ulysses; some confining it to the Mediterranean, others extending it to the great Ocean, and others ascribing it to a world of the poet's own making. Addison. Remarks on Italy.

ME'DLAR. Fr. Mesple, mesle; It. Nespola; Sp. Nispola; Lat. Mespilus; Gr. Meomin, quia EV TO μEOW TIλUs, because in the middle he hath, as it were, a cap or crowne, (Minshew.) In A. S. it is Med, to which Skinner would give a Greek origin.

And many homely trees there were,
That peaches, coines, and apples bere,
Medlars, plummes.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.

MEED, v.
MEED, n.

ME'EDFULLY.

A. S. Med; Dut. Miede, miete; Ger. Miete. Junius derives the A. S. from the Goth. Mizdo, (z Skinner omitted,) and that from the Gr. Miolos. prefers the A. S. Met-an, occurrere, invenire, adi pisci; 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, or fitting, as a reward,-in return for service done, or favour bestowed: and thus, generally, a reward or remuneration; reward deserved; desert;

a

And

Alas! what boots it with incessant care
To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade,
And strictly meditate the thankless Muse?

What you do quickly,

Milton. Lycidas.

Mr. Steevens furnishes the instance of the verb from Heywood.

Ich habbe y holde hym in hys londe, & my mede ther of ys. R. Gloucester, p. 54.

Theruore vnderstond the wel, & geld my mede blyue.
ld. p. 311.
R. Brunne, p. 29.

At myn vnderstandyng he wild tak no mede
That was ateynt of wikkednes.

And as muche mede. for a myte that he offreth
Ac the riche man for al his moneye.

Piers Ploukman, p. 220. Joie ye and be ye glade for your meede is plenteous in hevenes.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 5.

A wight, without nedeful compulsion ought medefully to
be rewarded.-Chaucer. Testament of Loue, b. iii.
He maie not failen of his mede,
That hath mercy.

It is mine Anna, God it wot,
The only causer of my paine;
My loue that medeth with disdaine.

For he toke mede and money of the Scottis, to thentent they myght departe pryuely by nyght, vnfoughts withall.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 18.

Brave be her warres and honourable deeds
By which she triumphes over yre and pride
And winnes an olive girlond for her meeds.

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 conse-
ME'EKEN, v. quential usage of make or
ME'EKLY. mate, æqualis, socius, compar:
ME'EKNESS. it is, not improbably, the A. S.
ME/KENING, 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 meketh prout men, and he threatneth warre.
R. Gloucester, p. 483. Note.
Vor 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. 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.

p.

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 vpon an asse and a colte, the fole of an asse vsed to the yocke.-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. Id. Luke, c. I.

. His herte is hard that woll not meke When men of meeknesse him beseeke.

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 hym, and gaue to hym suche gyftes, that the kynge refrayned hym of ye great yre yt he had purposed to theym. Fabyan, c. 189. Thyne heart did melt and thou mekedest thy selfe before ne the Lord.-Bible, 1551. 4 Kings, c. 23.

Amo sacrificed to all the kerued images whiche Manasseh his father made, and serued them, and mekened not himselfe before the Lord, as Manasseh hys father had mekened himselfe. 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 meckenynge of the hart, the praysyng of God, & knowledgyng our selues 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,
Climb'd mountaines, where the wanton kidling dallyes,
Then with soft steps enseal'd the meekned valleys,
In quest of memory.-Browne. Bril. Pastorals, b. ii. s. 1.

Thus Mary pondring oft, and oft in mind
Recalling what remarkably had pass'd
Since first her salutation heard, with thoughts
Meckly compos'd awaited the fulfilling.

Millon. Paradise Regained, b. ii.
Humbly on my knee,
I craue your blessing.
Dut. God blesse thee, and put meekness in thy breast.
Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act ii. sc. 2.

But he her fears to cease,
Sent down the meek-ey'd peace.

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.

MEET, v. ME/ETER. MEETING, U.

Goth. Mot-yan; A. S. Mot-ian, met-an; Dut. Moeten; Sw. Moeta, invenire, convenire, occurrere, to come to, to find, to come together.

To come to, to find; to come together, (from different places,) to assemble; to convene from opposite places, in opposition; to confront, to encounter. See MEET, adj. infra; and MooT. Bi side Winchestre in a feld to gedere heo hem mette. R. Gloucester, p. 88.

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. vill

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, Actii. 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 mectelie (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: unpaviov, dimidiata capitis pars, nulov, half, and xpaviov, the head. Minshew calls it "a disease that paineth one halfe of the

It is also applied (met.) to morbid fancies or

And lo Jhesus metle hem, and seide, Hayl ye.
For it is a full noble thing
Whan thyn eyen have meeting,
With that relike precious,

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 mecies 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. li. 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
Lasciuious mecters, to whose venom sound
The open eare of youth doth always listen.

Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act il. 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.

Draylon. 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.

The name [melancholy] is imposed from the matter, and disease denominated from the materiall cause: as Bruel. observes, Μελανχολια, 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, er 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.

Millor. Il Penseroso.

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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.

Millon. 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,
The glowing cheek, the mild dejected air,
The soften'd feature, and the beating heart,
Pierc'd deep with many a virtuous pang, declare.

Thomson. Autumn.

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.

MELIORATE, v. Fr. Méliorer; It. MiglioMELIORATION. rare: Sp. Mejorar; Lat. MELIORITY. Melior, melius, which is (Vossius) magis-velis, mavelis, melius, that which is more willed, more wished for or desired.

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 BeλTION, 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;
To bare the inmost strata to the sun;
To break and meliorate the stiffen'd clay.

MELL. See MEDDLE.

MELL.

MELLEOUS.

Jago. Edge Hill, b. v.

Fr. Mellifier, melliflue; It. Mellificare, mellifluo; Sp. Melifero, melifluo; Lat. Mellificare; Mel; Gr. Μελι, 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.
Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe.

Farewell deere sweete, whose wanton wyll to please,
Each taste of trouole seemed mell to me.

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.-Millon. Paradise Lost, b. v.

From whose [Socrates] mouth issu'd forth
Mellifluous streames that water'd all the schools
Of academics old and new.-Id. Paradise Regained, b. ii.
I shall not examine which of the slow ways may be best
employed, to free wax from the yellow melleous parts.
Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 712.

Join'd to these
Innumerous songsters, in the fresh'ning shade
Of new-sprung leaves, their modulations mix
Mellifluous.
Thomson. Spring.
Gresset's clear pipe, distinct behind,
Symphoniously combines in one
Each former bard's mellifluent tone.

Cooper. The Apology of Aristippus, Ep. 3.
Fair daughters of the sun, the sacred Nine!
Here wake to ecstasy their harps divine,
Or bid the Paphian lute mellifluous play,
Or tune to plaintive love the liquid lay.

Falconer. Shipwreck, c. 3. He [Wotton] was rather struck with the pastoral melliAuence of its lyric measures, which he styles a certain Doric delicacy in the songs and odes. Warton. Millon. 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 bably is a consequential usage of the A. S. Melewe, promelu, from the softness of meal.

v.

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.
Another Ballade imputed to Chaucer.
My riper mellowed yeeres beginne to follow on as fast.
Gascoigne. A Gloze vpon a Text.
Those sunnes do mellowe men so fast,
As most that trauayle come home very ripe.

Id. Councill to Muster Withipoll.
Fling him i'th' hay-mow, let him lye a mellowing.
Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Act ii sc. 1.
Fat pasture, mellow glebe, and of that kind what can
Give nourishment to beast, or benefit to man.
Drayton. Puly-Olbion, s. 25.

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
On the green promises of youthful heat.
Denhum. Of Old Age, pt. iv.
Thy plump and swelling womb, whose mellowy glebe doth
bear
The yellow ripened sheaf, that bendeth with the ear.
Drayton. Poly-O bion, s. 10.
Thy generous fruits. though gather'd ere their prime,
Still show'd a quickness; and maturing time
But mellows what we write, to dull the sweets of rhyme.
Dryden. To the Memory of Mr. Oldham.

The mellow-tasted Burgundy: and quick,
As is the wit it gives, the gay Champagne.

Thomson. Spring.

Hark! the mighty queen of sound,
Wakes each instrument around,
The merry pipe, the mellow-breathing flute,
The warbling lyre, the love-lamenting lute.

Fawkes. An Epithalamic Ode.
Fr. Melodie; It. Melodia;
Sp. Melodia; Lat. Melodia;
Gr. Meλwdia, from ueλ, honey,
and won, song or tune;

sweet

MELODY. MELO'DIOUS. MELO'DIOUSLY. MELODISE, V. song or sound. Sweet sound; a succession of sweet sounds. Chaucer uses it (met.) as harmony now is. And thus with alle blisse and melodie Hath Palamon ywedded Emelie.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2999.
On which he made on nightes melodie.
Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 8215.

And ouer this of suche nature
Thei ben, that with so sweete a steuen,
Like to the melodie of heuen,
In women's voice thei singe.

Gower. Con. A. b. 1.

Orpheus, the Tracian, harped melodiously,
With Amphion, and other musis of Archady.
Skellon. The Crowne of Laurell.
These delicacies,

I mean of tast, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flours,
Walks, and the melodie of birds.-Milton. P. Lost, b. viii.
To whom the nymphs upon their lyres
Tune many a curious lay,

And with their most melodious quires
Make short the longest day.

Drayton. The Muses' Elysium, Nymph. 1.
He must not flote upon his watry bier.
Unwept, and welter to the parching wind,
Without the meed of some melodious tear.

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 With art, and taught his warlike hands to wind The silver strings of his melodious lyre.

Dryden. Ocid. Art of Love, b. i.

Fawkes. Braham Park.

The feathered songsters on the trees above,
Attune their voices to the notes of love:
Notes so melodiously distinct and clear,
They charin my soul, and make it heav'n to hear.
O goddess of the crystal bow,
That dwell'st the golden meads among,
Whose streams still fair in memory flow,
Whose murmurs melodise my song!

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 Egypt 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 melons will not be more winy and better tasted. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 486.

The muse might tell what culture will entice
The ripen'd melon, to perfume each mouth.

MELT, v. MELTER.

MELTING, n.

MELTINGLY.

MELTINGNESS.

This pandare, that nigh malt for wo and routh,
Full often sayed, "Alas, what may this be?"
Id. Troilus & Creseide, b. 1.

And if he toke his flight
To highe, all sodenliche he might
Make it to melle with the sonne.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.
Had ben my heart of flint, it must haue melted tho;
For in my life I neuer saw a man so full of wo.

Surrey. Complaint of a dying Louer, &c. & haue made the a calfe of molie metal, & haue wurshipped it.-Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 32.

The meller melleth in vayne, for the euell is not taken awaye from them.-Id. Jeremye, c. 6.

Her tears falling into the water, one might have thought she began meltingly to be metamorphosed to the running river. Sidney. Arcadia.

Long thus he liv'd, slumbring in sweet delight,
Free from sad care and fickle worlds annoy,
Bathing in liquid ioyes his melted sprite.

Spenser. Britannia's Ida, c. G.
Thou meller of strong minds, dar'st thou presume
To smother all his triumphs, with thy vanities,
And tye him like a slave, to thy proud beauties?
Beaum. & Fletch. The False One, Act II. sc. S

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. Chrisi. 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 bis queenes, concubines, peeres, singing amidst his cups triumphaut carols of praise to his molten and carved gods?

Id. Heaven upon Earth, s. 15.

Nothing could have been spoke more gently, and yet more forcibly, to melt him down into a penitential sorrow for, and an abhorrence of those two foul deviations from the law of God.-South, vol. vii. Ser. 7.

By this law five per cent. gain on all our milled money will be given to be shared between the possessor and the meller of our milled money, out of the honest creditor and landlord'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 all the miseries and calamities, outward or inward, of my brethren, 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,
The charms of kindred and relations dear,
The smiling offspring, love's far better part,
And all the social meltings of the heart.

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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. MEMO'IR. MEMORABLE. MEMORATIVE. MEMO'RIAL, adj. MEMO'RIAL, n. MEMO'RIALIST. MEMORIZE, V. MEMORANDUM. MEMENTO.

Fr. Mémoire; Lat. It. and Sp. Memoria; Memor, from memini, pret. of the obsolete menco, or meno; and meno from the Gr. Mev-eiv; 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

MEMBER. Fr. Membre; It. Membro; MEMBERSHIP. Sp. Miembro; Lat. Membrum. Of unknown etymology.

A limb; a piece, part, 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. R. Gloucester, p. 511. Bot tille that courte com to, of whilk he is membre calde. R. Brunne, p. 130. For it spedith to thee that oon of thi membris perische than that al thi bodi go into helle.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 5.

Ever a good heartist or a member-percer or a
Small-gut man left in the town, answer

Me that?-Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Pilgrim. Act iv. sc. 1.

But O, that man, whose mystick obligation
Of mutual membership doth them invite
To careful tenderness, and free compassion;
With such confederate zeal and stout delight
Would help their bretheren up the heav'nly hill
As these contrive to plunge them deep in hell!

Beaumont. Ps, che, c. 10. s. 278.
Faint sweats all down their mighty members run;
Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply.

Dryden. Annus Mirabilis.

No advantages from external church membership, or profession of the true religion, can of themselves give a man confidence towards God.-South, vol. ii. Ser. 11.

The representative is so far dependent upon the constituent, and political importance upon public favour, that a member of parliament cannot more effectually recommend himself to eminence and advancement in the state, than by contriving and patronizing laws of public utility.

Paley. Moral Philosophy, vol. ii. c. 7.

MEMBRANE. MEMBRANA'CEOUS. MEMBRANEOUS. MEMBRANOUS. calls it

Fr. Membrane; Lat. It. and Sp. Membrana; so named because it covers the members. Cotgrave

The upmost thin skin of any thing; also the pill or 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 covering 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 membranaceous, agreeable to the frugivorous or carnivorous kind.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. vii. c. 2.

22. The heart. stomach, guts, sanguineous, and other membraneous vessels, are now, all acknowledge to be muscular-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 5. s. 22.

And haddest mercy on that man for memento sake.
Piers Plouhman, p. 103.

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 aunex'd to them, that it has had them before.

Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 10. 8. 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
And ev'ry post, and where the chaise broke down.
Cowper. The Progress of Errour

At length she found herself decay,
Death sent mementos every day.

Cotton, Fab. 5.

Also anciently written Manace, manass. Fr. Menacer; It. Minarciare; Sp. Amenazar; Lat. Minacia, from minari, to threaten.

To threaten; to denounce evil or punishment. Tostus wild not leue, bot held on his menace.

R. Brunne, p. 64. And gretly he manasside hem that thei schulden not make him knowen.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 3.

O Salomon, richest of all richesse,
Fulfilled of sapience and worldly glorie,
Ful worthy ben thy wordes to memorie
To every wight that wit and reason can.

Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10,117.

Gower. Con. A. b. vi.

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 comnth 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.

The same thoughts do commonly meet us in the same places, as if we had left them there till our returne. For 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, 8. 5. And ouer against this memorandum (of the king's own hand) "Otherwise satisfied." Bacon Hen. VII. p. 212.

Sir Robert answered, by god, haralde, for all the manysshing of your maisters, I will nat so lese my castell, and if lyke case.-Id. Ib. c. 311. so be yt the duke cause my men to dye, I shall serue him in

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. Historic, p. 78.

The Trojan threats
The realm with ruin and their ancient seats
To lay in ashes, if they dare supply,
With arms or ald, his vanquish'd enemy:
Thus menacing he still pursues the course
With vigour, though diminish'd of his force.

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,
And thus rejoin'd more menacingly mild.

He, the rightful owner of that steede, He well could menage and subdue his pride. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 4. Some people have imagined that the hint of rising pillars in the manege was taken from a contrivance of which Eumenes was the author. Berenger. Horsemanship, vol. ii. p. 165.

In directing this manege the horseman must take care that his aids be perfectly just and exact.-Id. Ib. p. 171.

I saw here [at Inspruck] the largest manage that I have met with any where else.-Addison. Remarks on Italy.

I can look at him [a national tiger] with an easy curiosity, as prisoner within bars, in the menagerie of the tower. Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1.

MEND, v. ME'NDABLE. ME'NDER. ME'NDING, n. MENDMENT. itself dropped.

Fr. Amender; It. Ammendare, emendare; Sp. Emendar; Lat. Emendare, to amend, (qv.); the Lat. preposition e has been first changed into a, and then the a

To free from deficiency, fault, or blemish; to repair, to correct, to improve, to reform.

By thynkyng that suche castell werk was nat semyng to religion, in a mendement of that trespas, he maked so many minstres of religion, and endowed hem with londes and rentes.-R. Gloucester, p. 451. Note.

A man I salle the make, richely for to lyue, Or my Chefe Justice, the lawes to mend and right. R. Brunne, p. 69. And is redy to vnderfonge the to mercy, gif thou wilt come to mendement.-Id. p. 651.

Now blessid be God of mendemente of hele and eke of cure!-The Pardonere & Tapstere. Imputed to Chaucer.

And the worckme wrought, and the worcke mended thorow theyr handes.-Bible, 1551. 2 Chron. c. 24.

Diligently refourme & amende in such as are mendable, & those whose corrupte canker no cure can heale cut off in season for corrupting further.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 925.

And the preastes coseted to receaue no more moneye of the people: But it shoulde go to the mendynge of the temple. Bible, 1551. 4 Kynges, c. 12.

Zealous hee was, and would haue all things mended,
And by that mendment nothing else he meant
But to be king, to that mark was he bent.

For richesse and mendicities

mind, or have in mind, (mens) to put in mind, (monore); to intend, to design, to wish or will. Vossius explains,-Monumentum aliquid scriptum aut factum memoriae causa: and Regimen,-any thing meant, intended, or designed, as a rule or regulation. See MONEY, and MENTAL.

MENTAL. Fr. Mental; It. Mentale; Sp. MENTALLY. Mental, from the Lat. Mens, the mind, (qv.) Mental is one of those adjectived signs which we have borrowed from the Latin, without borrowing the unadjectived sign. Mens is from Gr. Mevos, impetus, (sc.) animi, and hence, animus. Mevos, from uev-ev, manere, to remain. (See Vossius and Lennep.) May not the A. S. Man-an, be the radical word? See To MEAN. See also MEMORY.

Of or pertaining to the mind.

Without all mental representations, conceive of your God purely, simply, spiritually; as of an absolute being, without forme, without matter, without composition; yea an infinite, without all limit of thoughts.

Bp. Hall, Epist. 7. Dec. 4.

So deep the power of these ingredients pierc'd,
Even to the inmost seat of mental sight,
That Adam now enforc't to close his eyes,
Sunk down and all his spirits became intranst.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi.

Id. Ib.

Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. 1. Suidas is silent herein, Sedrenus and Zonaras, two grave and punctual authors, delivering only the confiscation of his goods, omit the history of his [Belisarius] mendication.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 17.

Fast by, a meagre mendicant we find,
Whose russet rags hang fluttering in the wind:
Years bow his back, a staff supports his tread,
And soft, white hairs shade thin his palsy'd head.
Savage. The Wanderer, c. 5.
What is station high?
'Tis a proud mendicant; it boasts and begs;
It begs an alms of homage from the throng,
And oft the throng denies its charity.

Young. The Complaint, Night 6.

MENIAL. See MANY. MENSTRUAL. Fr. Menstrual; It. MenME'NSTRUOUS. suale; Sp. Mensual; Lat. ME'NSTRUE. Menstrualis, menstruus, monthly, of or pertaining to a month (mensis.) Menstruum, as in the citation from Brown, is used by chemical writers for any liquor which is a dissolvent, because its action was, for the most part, as we are told, assisted by a moderate fire

But death comes not at call, justice divine
Mends not her lowest pace for prayers or cries.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x.

Els, be ye sure, dearely shall abyde,
Or make you good amendment for the same:
All wrongs have mendes, but no amends of shame.
Spenser. Faerie Quecne, b. ii. c. I.

Pan. Faith, Ile not meddle in't; let her be as she is, if she be faire, 'tis the better for her and she be not, she has the mends in her own hands. Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cress. Act i. sc. 1. Cob. A trade, sir, that I hope I may vse with a safe conscience, which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad souls. Id. Julius Cæsar, Act i. sc. 1.

Salt earth and bitter are not fit to sow,
Nor will be tam'd and mended by the plough.

Dryden. Virgil. Georg. b. ii.

For there can be no retreat for him then, no mending of his choice in the other world, no after-game to be play'd in hell.-South, vol. ii. Ser. 1.

MENDA/CIOUS.) Fr. Menteux; It. MenMENDA'CITY. Szoynere; Sp. Mendoso; Lat. Mendax, lying; from mendum or menda ;-a fault, an error, or mistake; and, consequentially, a falsehood.

Lying; telling or declaring to be true that which is not so; which the teller knows is not so; false.

Our vniuersall ryghteousnesses are afore God as clothes stayned with menstrue-Bale. Apology, fol. 57.

The wylde beastes shall go their way, and the menstruous wemen shal beare monsters.-Bible, 1551. Esdras, c. 5.

Note; that the dissents of the menstrual or strong waters may hinder the incorporation as well as the dissents of the metals themselves.-Bacon. Physiological Remains.

That women are menstruant, and men pubescent at the year of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 12. Briefly, it consisteth of parts so far from an icie dissolution, that powerful menstruums are made for its emollition. Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 1. From Lat. Mensura.

MENT, ter.

The continuation of these two motions of the earth, the annual and diurnal, upon axes not parallel, is resolvable into nothing but a final and mental cause, or the To Beλbecause it was best it should be so; the

τιστον,

I pretended not to determine, whether or no body or matter be so perpetually divisable, that there is no assignable portion of matter so minute that it may not at least, mentally, (to borrow a school-term) be further divided into still lesser and lesser parts.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 401.

Motion upwards, on the other hand, and perhaps still more, whatever is able to oppose an adequate resistance to a superincumbent weight, or to a descending shock, furnishes, for reasons hereafter to be explained, the most appropriate images subservient to that modification of the sublime, which arises from a strong expression of mental energy. Stewart. Philosophical Essays, c. 3. Essay 2.

I say he bade, they shulden contrefete The pope's bulles, making mention That he hath leve his firste wif to lete.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8620.

Of Jupiter and of Juno, Ouide
Maketh in his boke mencion,
Howe thei felle at dissencion.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.

Ye do, & I, agree, yt such thinges as ar mecioned in the gospel spoke by Christ vnto Saint Peter & other apostles & disciples, wer not only sayde to theself, nor only for thèself, but to the for their successours in Christ's flocke, & by the to vs al, yt is to wit euery ma as shal apperteine to his part. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 141.

Yea, begge a haire of him for memory,
And dying, mention it within their willes,
Bequeathing it as a rich legacie
Vnto their issue.-Shakes. Julius Cæsar, Act iii. sc. 2.

O ancient Powers of air and this wide world,
For much more willingly I mention air,

This our old conquest, than remember hell,
Our hated habitation.-Milton. Paradise Regained, b. i.
And wheresoever my fortunes shall conduct me,
So worthy mentions I shall render of you,

So vertuous and so fair.

Beaum. & Fletch. Custom of the Country, Act i. sc. 1. 'Tis true, I have been a rascal, as you are, A fellow of no mention, nor no mark.

Id. The Prophetess, Act v. sc. 3.

Let them, I say, be made almost from their very cradle to hate it, (Rebellion, name and thing; so that their blood may rise, and their heart may swell at the very mention of it.

South, vol. v. Ser. 1.

Now, the mention [of God's name] is vain, when it is useless; and it is useless, when it is neither likely nor intended to serve any good purpose.-Paley. Moral Phil, b. iv. o. 2,