Walls are either entire and continual, or intermitted; the entire muring is by writers diversly distinguished.

Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 19. Moreover, hee [Dentatus] woon 26 crowns or triumphant chaplets, wherof 14 were civick, for rescuing of Roman citizens in jeopardie of death; 8 of beaten gold; three other of murall, for mounting first over the enemies wall. Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 28. Where you desire mural fruit-trees should spread, garnish, and bear, cut smoothly off the next unbearing branch. Evelyn. Kalendarium Hortense. January. These the bold Briton mows,

Dauntless as deities exempt from fate,
Ardent to deck his brows with mural'd gold,
Or civic wreath of oak,the victors meed.-Philips.Cerealia.
MURK. See MIRK.

MURMUR, v. MU'RMUR, n. MURMURA'TION. MURMURER. MURMURING, n. MURMUROUS.

Fr. Murmurer; It. Mormorare; Sp. Murmurar; Lat. Murmurare; Gr. Mopuupei, properly spoken of flowing waters, a little roughened. Vossius does not think from the verb Mup-ev, to flow, but formed from the sound, in which opinion he was preceded by Varro and Quintilian. (See SIBILANT.) And the application certainly is

To make the noise, to utter the sound of roughly or hoarsely flowing water; or a similar noise or sound: to utter an indistinct, continuous, hoarse sound: (met.) to utter the sounds of complaint, repining or discontent; to complain, to repine.

As many heds, as many wittes ben

They murmured, as doth a swarme of been,
And maden skillos after hir fantasies.

Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,517. Murmur also is oft among servants and grutchen when hir soveraines bidden hem do leful thinges.

Id. The Persones Tale, p. 156.

And with that soun he herd a murmuring
Ful low and dim, that sayde thus, "victorie."

MURR. Skinner, from Lat. Mori; MinMU'RRAIN.shew, from Gr. Mapaiv-eiv, tabesIt is from the A. S. Myrr-an, to mar; to dissipate, to destroy.

cere.

The old noun murr, was applied to that which mars or destroys, (sc. the speech or utterance.) Murrain,-to that which destroys life: a destructive disease, plague, pestilence.

And God on hem sendeth other meschaunce moreyne.
Piers Plouhman, p. 42.
The hande of the Lord shal be vpon thy catel which thou
hast in ye felde, with a mighty great morayne.
Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 9.

The wodhacke that singeth churre
Horsly as hee had the murre.

Skelton. The Boke of Philip Sparrow.

Empedocles is of this advice, that together with the respiwhen as then the said respiration is not performed at liberty ration of the lights odours also are intromitted and let in: and ease, but with much adoe, by reason of some asperity in the passage we smell not at all, like as we observe in them who are troubled with the pose, mur, and such like rheumes.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 685.

This plague of murrein continued twenty-eight yeare ere it ended, and was the first rot that euer was in England. Stow. Edw. I. an. 1257.

His cattle must of rot and murren die,
Blotches and blaines must ali his flesh emboss,
And all his people.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xil.

dent to cattle; and ends with the description of a fatal
In the latter part of the book he relates the diseases inci-
murrain that formerly raged among the Alps.
Dryden. Georgics, b. iii. Argument.

I then had plann'd a life Where wealth attends the middle stage, And rest and comfort wait on age, Where rot and murrain ne'er commence.-Cotton, Fab. 6.

I who observes that uves was the general denomination of shell-fish, año тov μvei, from their shutting themselves up.

Frydays and fastyng dayes ferthyngworth of muscles Were a feste for suche a folk.-Piers Plouhman, p. 152. A muskell in a blewe shell, had enclosed a margarite perle, the most precious, and best that euer toforn came in my sight.-Chaucer. The Testament of Loue, b. i. The mussel often trimm'd With orlent pearl within, as thereby Nature show'd, That she some secret good had on that shell bestow'd. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 25.

Eslif. And here's a chain of whitings' eyes for pearls, A muscle-monger would have made a better. Beaum. & Fletch. Rule a Wife and have a Wife, Activ. sc. 1.

MUSCLE. MU'SCELLING, n. MUSCULAR. MUSCULA'RITY.

Fr. Muscle; It. Muscolo; Sp. Musculo; Lat. Musculus; Gr. Mus; because it resembles a skinned mouse, or the fish so called. (See Vossius.) More probably from the Greek verb Muew, to cover; because the muscles cover or clothe the bones. Cotgrave calls the Fr.

MU'SCULOUS.

Muscle, the instrument of voluntary motion, compounded of sinews, veins, arteries, tendons, and flesh, and having a skin peculiar to itself. And with fell tooth accustomed to blood, Launched his thigh with so mischievous might That it both bone and muscles ryved quight.

Spenser. Astrophel. The tendinous [fibres] are parallel and direct between the two ends of a muscule. And upon these the far greater stress of the muscular action doth depend. Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 4. s. 14. The guts of a sturgeon, taken out and cut to pieces, will and muscularily.—Id. Museum.

MURREY, adj. From Fr. Morée, morel, still move, which may depend upon their great thickness MU'RREY, n. moreau; It. Morello; Sp. Morado, so called from the colour of the Moors,

Yea, and withall, it [the baine or bath] doth mitigate and cause to vanish and passe away the secret lassitudes of the

Hir name is murmure and compleint,
Ther can no man hir chere peint

To sette a glad semblant therin.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

But wordes dare I speake none,

Wherof she might be displeased:

But in myne herte I am diseased

With many a murmour, God to wote.-Id. Ib.

Make ye no murmuracion.
Though I write after this facion.

Skelton. The Boke of Colin Clout. Those murmurers against God, as soone as they repented were healed of their deadly woundes, thorough lookynge on the brasen serpent onely, without medicine or any other help.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 14.

Great murmoryng ther arose in Inglande bitwene the noble herōs and ye kyngs cousell.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 6.

The silver-sounding instruments did meet
With the base murmure of the water's fall.

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

But as they shewed themselues no lesse than ingrat infidels in the behalfe, so the Lord considered their vnthankfullnesse, and gaue them euer since such scarsitie, as the greatest murmurers haue now the least store.

Holinshed. The Description of England, b. iii. c. 8. But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1.

What, if God, willing to show the riches of his mercy, calls and accepts of some at the very last hour of the day, and re

wards them equally with those that came in at first; have
we any thing to reply against such a proceeding, or to carp
at his justice, or murmur at our brother's felicity.
South, vol. ix. Ser. 7.

By long obedience he confest
That serving her was to be blest.
Ye murmurers, let True evince

That men are beasts, and dogs have sense!

Prior. True's Epitaph. This should silence the proud regrets and murmurings of our hearts, at the absoluteness of God's decrees and purposes for why may not his decree be as absolute as his power?-South, vol. viii. Ser. 9.

Round his swoln heart the murmurous fury rolls. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xx. Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows! Gray. Ode on the Spring. In the mean time I shall make a shew of some of my defonces, if it be only to convince the murmurers, that I shall not capitulate upon the first summons.-Observer, No. 91.

She [Sculpture] saw the head, Breathing the hero, small, of Grecian size, Scarce more extensive than the sinewy neck; The spreading shoulders, muscular and broad.

Thomson. Liberty, pt. v.

The chanons of the same chappell in their mantles of murrey, and roundlet of S. Georgo.-Stow. Edw. IV. an. 1476. The leaves of some trees turne a little murray or reddish and they be commonly young leaves that do so. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 512. pupil or sight of the eye.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii.

So stibium or glass of antimony, appears somewhat red in glass, but in its powder yellow; so painted glass of a sanguine red will not ascend in powder above a murrey. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 1.

On the other side with a shippe, called the Tryumphe,
with a case of murrey velvet, weighing three score and thir-
teen ounces.-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. App.
And add beside a murry-colour'd vest,
Which, in their places, may receive the pest.
Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 6.

MURRION See MORION.
MUSCADEL.
MU'SCADINE, adj.

Fr. Muscadel, muscat; It. Moscatello, so called either MU'SCADINE, n. from their scent of musk, or because flies (musca) feed eagerly upon them; in confirmation of the latter the Uva Apiana of Pliny are referred to. See Menage and Shinner; and the quotation from Pliny.

And at night to banquet with dew (as they say) of all maner of fruits and confections, marmelade, succad, grene ginger, comfeittes, sugar plate, with malmesay and romney burnt with sugar, synamon & cloues, with hastarde, muscadell and ipocrasie.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 229.

As touching the muscadell wines, (Apiana) they tooke that name of bees, which are so much delighted in them, and desirous to settle and feed of them.

Holland. Plinie, b. xiv. c. 2. Most decoctions of astringent plants, of what colour soever, do leave in the liquor a deep and muscadine red. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 12. This will buy brawn this Christmas yet, and muscadine. Beaum. & Fletch. The Loyal Subject, Act iii. sc. 4. The fluid and finer part of the mixture passing through in the form of a liquor, high coloured, almost like muscadine.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 118.

MU'SCLE. Fr. 'Muscle; Sp. Musculo; Lat. Musculus, ab similitudine aliquâ muris. Vossius,a tenui, quo mures referunt, strepitu. Junius,

The uvous coat or iris of the eye hath a musculous power, and can dilate and contract that round hole in it, called the

And therefore almost the whole musculous flesh of the body is bestow'd upon the tail and back, and serves for the vibration of the tail, the heaviness and corpulency of the water, requiring a great force to divide it.-Id. 16. pt. i.

[Isaac Fuller] understood the anatomic part of Painting, perhaps equal to Michael Angelo, following it so close, that he was very apt to make the muscelling too strong and prominent.-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. c. 1.

This part was very bad, and the colouring of the Saturn too raw, and his figure too muscular.-Id. Ib. MUSE, v MUSE, n. MU'SARD.

MU'SER.

MU'SEFUL. MU'SELESS. MU'SING, n. MUSICK)

Fr. Muser, musard; It. Musare; in Dutch Muysen. From Lat. Mussare, or Gr. Musw, from uvelv. claudere, (Skinner.) It is more probably formed upon the noun muse, Lat. Musa: and intended to denote (see AMUSE, and

To follow the Muses, to be contemplative or thoughtful, as one who follows the Muses; to meditate, dwell upon, keep the mind fixed or employed upon; to weigh, to ponder.

Musard,-one who muses or spends his time in musing; a dreamer.

Muse, the noun, is sometimes applied to the

poet.

Comen is the Sarazin to speke with Sir Edward, Clad in clothes fyn, himself is a mosard.

R. Brunne, p. 229.

Desherite Edward of alle his seignorie, Of Jon Baliol musard sulk was his courteysie.-Id. p. 266. The more ich muse ther on. mystiloker hil semeth. Piers Plouhman, p. 190. Farisees hirden the puple musyng of hem thise thingis. Wiclif. Jon, c. 7. And whanne he hadde selde these thingis lewes wenten out fro him and hadden mych questioun, either musyng among hemsilf-Id. Dedis, c. 28,

And touching this matter, it is reported that the theater being full of people, Phocion walked all alone upon the scaffold where the players played, and was in great muse with himself: whereupon, one of his friends seeing him in one of his muses, said unto him, Surely Phocion thy mind is occupied about somewhat.-North. Plutarch, p. 624.

It is to be wonder'd how museless and unbookish they wore, minding nought but the feats of war.

Millon. Of Unlicens'd Printing. There flowry hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing.

Id. Paradise Regained, b. iv. The morning, we know, is commonly said to be a friend to the Muses, but a morning's draught is never so.

South, vol. iv. Ser. 8.

Meanwhile, in museful mood
Absorpt in thought, on vengeance fix'd he stood.
Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xviil.
Here Grief with holy musings may converse
In sounds, that best shall greet the glorious hero's herse.
Warton, Ode 10.

Then, Goddess, guide my pilgrim feet
Contemplation hoar to meet,

As slow he winds in museful mood,

Near the rush'd marge of Cherwell's flood.-Id. Ode 11.

Say, scenes of science, say, thou haunted stream,
(For oft my Muse-led steps didst thou behold)
How on thy banks I rifled every theme,
That Fancy fabled in her Age of gold.

MU/SET.

Mason, Elegy 3. To Hurd. Steevens refers to the Fr. Trouée, in Cotgrave,-"A gap or muset in a hedge." The many musits through the which he goes, And like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.

Shakespeare. Venus & Adonis. MUSEUM. Gr. Movσelov, a place dedicated to the Muses, to literature, to philosophy; to the preservation of rare and curious articles.

Of museums, galleries of paintings and statues, public Ilbraries, &c. I need only say that they exist in almost every town in Italy, and open an ample field to the exercise of observation and curiosity.-Eustace. Italy, vol. i. Prel. Dis.

MUSHROOM. Fr. Mouscheron. Salmasius thinks they are so called-a musco, because they grow-ubi brevissima est herba, et plerumque nonnisi muscus, where the herbage is very short, and scarcely aught except moss. Applied (met.) to

Any thing of sudden growth from lowly origin. The mushrooms have two strange properties; the one that they yeeld so delicious a meat; the other, that they come up so hastily, as in a night, and yet they are unsown. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 546. Mean while the king did not neglect Ireland, being the soyle where these mushrooms and vpstart weedes (that spring vp in a night) did chiefly prosper.

Id. Hen. VII. 138. p. But as for such mushroom divines, who start up of a sudden, we do not usually find their success so good as to recommend their practice.-South, vol. iv. Ser. 1.

ed notione, qui significat cupidè ac cum impetu in aliquid ferri, to be borne along with eagerness and violence. See in Vossius other conjectures, and the quotation from Taylor's Plato.

189.

Alle the musons in musyk, ich made hure to knowe.
Piers Ploukman, p.
For the armony
And sweet accord was so good musike,
That the uoice to angels most was like.
Chaucer. The Flower and the Leaf.
And of musike also the note
In man's voyce or softe or sharpe,
That fonde Juball.
Gower. Con. 4. b. iv.
And she, more sweet then any bird on bough
Would oftentimes emongst them bear a part,
And strive to passe (as she could well enough)
Their native musicke by her skilful art.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 6.
Therein the merry birds of everye sorte
Chaunted alowd their chearefull harmonee,
And made amongst themselves a sweete consort,
That quickned the dull spright with musical comfort.
Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 5.

The sweet lip'd sisters musically frighted,
Singing their fears, are fearfully delighted.

And I thinke

Crashaw. Music's Duel.

MUSKET. MUSKETE'ER. MUSKETO'ON.

Fr. Mosquet; It. Moschetto Sp. Mosquete.

A very small species of hawk was so called, from moschetto, a little fly, or a troublesome stinging fly, as Warburton expresses And a musket (or small gun) is supposed to be a further consequential usage.

it.

Some shall stop muskels, and so kill a foe.

Donne. Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat's Crudities. He will never come within the signe of it, the sight of a cassock, or a musket-rest againe.

B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act ii. sc. 5. Colonel Thomas Morgan; whose veteran troops were the first perfect harquebusiers of our nation, and the first who taught us to like the musket. Oldys. Life of Sir Walter Ralegh.

Ralegh leaving his gally, took eight musketiers in his barge, and with Gifford and Calfield in their wherries, having eight muskeliers more, enter'd the mouth of that river.-Id. Ib.

Quoth he, "My head's not made of brass, As Friar Bacon's noddle was;

Nor like the Indian's scull so tough, That, authors say, 'twas musket-proof."

And into pikes and musqueteers

Hudibras, pt. fi. c. I.

She said;-in air the trembling music floats,
And on the winds triumphant swell the notes:
So soft, though high, so loud, and yet so clear,
Ev'n listening angels lean from heaven to hear.

Pope. The Temple of Fame.
How soft the music of those village bells,
Falling at intervals upon the ear
In cadence sweet, now dying all away,
Now pealing loud again and louder still,
Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on!

Cowper. Task, b. vi. Thine too those musically falling founts, To slake the clammy lip. Dyer. Ruins of Rome. The peculiar musicalness of the first of these lines, in particular, arises principally from its consisting entirely of iambic feet.-Dr. Warton. Essay on Pope.

The name of the Muses, and universally that of music, was derived, as it seems, from wobar, to inquire, and from investigation and philosophy.

MUSK. MU'SKY.

Taylor. The Cratylus of Plato.

Fr. Musc; It. Muschio; Low Lat. Muscus; in Arabic Mosch, or musch.

The word is applied to a perfumed substance said to be obtained from an animal of the same name. Musky,

Sweetly scented or perfumed, sweetly odoriferous, fragrant.

Their vessels of yuory comprehendeth al their combes, their muske balles, their pomander pottes, &c. Bale. Image of bothe Churches, pt. iii. And yet, as Paracelsus encourageth, ordure makes the best musk, and from the most fetid substances may be drawn the most odoriferous essences. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 26.

And though the problem of Aristotle enquire why none smels sweet beside the parde? yet later discoveries add divers sorts of monkeys, the civit cat and gazela, from which our musk proceedeth.-Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 10.

There eternal Summer dwells,
And West winds, with musky wing,
About the cedarn alleys fling
Nard and cassia's balmy smells.
The glowing violet,

Milton. Comus.

The musk-rose and the well attir'd woodbine,
With cowslips wan that hang their pensive head,
And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

Id. Lycidas. Jove! what a coyle these muske-wormes take to, to purchase another's delight? for, themselves, who bear the odours, have ever the least sense of them.

B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revels, Act v. sc. 4.
Nor this part musk or civet can we call,
Nor amber, but a rich result of all;
So she was all a sweet, whose every part,
In due proportion mix'd, proclaim'd the maker's art.
Dryden. Eleonora.

Thee April blithe as long of yore
Bermuda's lawns he frolick'd o'er
With musky, nectar-trickling wing,
(In the new world's first dawning spring)
To gather balm of choicest dews.

Warton, Ode 11.

In half-whipt muslin needles useless lie,
And shuttle-cocks across the counter fly.

Gay. Trivia, b. il MUSS. Fr. Mousche; the play called musse. Mr. Nares observes, that musse is one of Garagantua's games, (b. i. c. 21;) and is mentioned again, (b. iii. c. 40,) "a Muscho inventore." our poets it is used as equivalent toA scramble.

Authority melts me of late. When I cried, hoa,
Like boyes vnto a musse, kings would start forth,
And cry, your will."

In

Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra, Act iii. sc. 11. Cos. Buy any peares, very fine peares, peares fine. (Nightingale sets his foote afore him, and ho falls with his basket.) Cok. Gods so! a musse, a musse, a musse, a musse. (Cokes falls a scrambling, &c.)

B. Jonson. Bartholomew Fayre, Act iv. sc. 2. Bauble and cap no sooner are thrown down, But there's a muss of more than half the town. Dryden. Prol. to the Widow Ranter. (By Mrs. Behn, 1690.) A.S.

MUST. Anciently written mote, moste. Mot, most; Ger. Mussen; Dut. Moeten, moetten. The old Eng. Mote; A. S. Mot; Ger. Mussen, were used as we now use both may and must, (posse, oportere, necesse esse,) and are of the same origin as mought, mote, (qv.)

To be behoveful, needful, necessary: to be bound or obliged; to be under a necessity. "We mole," he sayde, "be hardy, & stal worthe, & wyse, Gef we wol habb oure lyf, and holde oure franchise." R. Gloucester, p. 155.

For if I preche the gospel glorie is not to me, for nedeliche I mote doon it; for wo to me if I preche not the gospel. Wiclif. 1 Corynth. c. 9.

For this ye knowen al so wel as I,
Who so shall telle a tale after a man,
He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can.
Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 734.

On of us two most bowen doutelees:
And sith a man is more resonable
Than woman is, ye mosten ben suffrable.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6024.

Whereof they musten of necessitee,
As for that night departen companie.

Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,998.
As ever mote I drinken win or ale,
Who so is rebel to my jugement,
Shal pay for alle that by the way is spent.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 834.

This open thynge whiche is befalle
Concludeth hym by such a wey,
That he the faith moste nedes obey.-Gower. Con. A. b.i

The must three times together; I wear as sharp steel as another man, and my fox bites as deep, musled, my dear brother.-Beaum. & Fletch. A King, and no King, Activ.

Much thou hast yet to see, but I perceive
Thy mortal sight to faile; objects divine
Must needs impaire the wearie human sense.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xii.

Of systems possible, if 'tis confest

That wisdom infinite must form the best,
Where all must fall or not coherent be,
And all that rises, rise in due degree;

Then, in the scale of reasoning life, 'tis plain,
There must be, somewhere, such a rank as man.

Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. 1.

Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find?
Must dull suspence corrupt the stagnant mind?

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,
Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise,
No cries invoke the mercies of the skies?

Johnson. Vanity of Human Wishes.

MUST. Fr. Mouste; It. and Sp. Mosto; Lat. Mustum; Gr. Mooxos, young, new. Mustum is applied to any thing, not wine merely, new. Must, in English, to

New wine, or other fermented liquor, in its uncleansed state.

And othire scornyden, and seiden for these men ben ful of must.-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 2.

As touching musts or new wines, the first and principall difference of them lyeth in this, That some by nature are white, others blacke, and others againe of a mixt colour between them both.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxiii. c. 1.

The must, of pallid hue, declares the soil
Devoid of spirit; wretched he, that quaffs
Such wheyish liquors; oft with colic pangs,
With pungent colic pangs distress'd he'll roar,
Aud toss, and turn, and curse th' unwholsome draught.
J. Philips. Cider, b. i.
From the Fr. Moiser; Lat.
Muc-ere-

MUST, v. MU'STY.

MU'STINESS. To be or become foul, by confinement from air, or by disuse; to be or become fusty, stale, stagnant.

Whe his wordes be wel sifted, men shall find little fine flowre in the, but all very mustie branne, not worthie so muche as to fede either horse or hogges.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 694. Pistachoes, so they be good, and not musly joyned with almonds in almond milk; are an excellent nourisher. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 50.

MUSTA/CHE.) MUSTACHIO. Muora, the upper lip, and hair growing upon it. The hair or beard grown upon the upper lip.

Fr. Moustache; It. Mostacchio; S. Mostacho; Gr.

Your braue mustachyos turnde the Turky waye.

Gascoigne. Councell to Master Bartholomew Withipoll. They not over-wise brought word that the duke's army were most of them priests; for they saw their faces all over shaven; the English then using to let grow on their upper lip large mustachios, as did anciently the Britons.

Milton. History of England, b. iv.

MU'STARD. Fr. Moustarde; It. Mostarda; Sp. Mostaza; a musto et ardore, (J. Scaliger.) See Menage, Dict.

The kyngdome of heauen is lyke unto a grayne of mustarde-seed which a man taketh and soweth in his felde, which is the least of all seedes.-Bible, 1551. Mall. c. 13.

As for the mustard that sprung up in the Isle of Ely, though there had never been any in that country, yet might it have been brought down in the channels by the floods, and so being thrown up the banks, together with the earth, might germinate and grow there.-Ray. Creation, pt. il.

To assemble or collect together, for view or review; and, generally, to assemble or collect together, to bring together.

Meddled my merchaundise. and mad a good moustre. Piers Plouhman, p. 100. That such a nombre gadred into one Of worthie knights, neuer was sein, Whan they in feere were moustred in a plein. Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii. And so they went and mostred before the Castil of Arde, the whiche was well furnysshed with Englysshemen. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 254. When muster day, and foughten fielde are odd. Gascoigne. The Steele Glas.

I comaunde you in his name, that ye make to morowe your mustres, and in likewise so shall we do ours. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 304. Upon festivals and play-times they should exercise themselves in the fields, by riding, leaping, fencing, mustering, and training.-Cowley. The School.

The last great muster, ('twas before ye serv'd here
Before the last duke's death, whose honour'd bones
Now rest in peace,) this young prince had the ordering
(To crown his father's hopes) of all the army.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Loyal Subject, Act i. sc. 1.

Fals. Shadow will serue for summer: pricke him: for wee haue a number of shadowes to fill vppe the muster-booke. Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Henry IV. Act iii. sc. 2.

Though thou wert muster-master of the land.

B. Jonson. The Vnder-wood. An Elegy.

All that were able, from 20 years old and upwards, being listed in the muster-roll, followed their trades, or other business, till they were called to war.

Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. iv. c. 4. s. 15.

In short, it is the great plague of the world [deception], which takes wrong measures and makes false musters almost in every thing.-South, vol. ii. Ser. 9.

Again in 1 Corinth. vi. 9, 10. we have a muster-roll of as vile sinners, as sin could make, or hell receive; fornicators, idolators, adulterers, thieves, covetous, drunkards, extortioners.-Id. vol. viii. Ser. 12.

Prone on the lowly grave of the dear man
She drops; whilst busy medling memory,
In barbarous successions, musters up
The past endearments of their softer hours,
Tenacious of its theme.

MUTE, v. MU'TABLE.

Blair. Grave.

Fr. Muable; It. Mutabile: Sp. Mudabile, Lat. Mutabilis, from mutare, to change; (see To MUTATION. MUE.)

MUTABILITY.

MUTE, v. MUTE, n. MU'TING. n.

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Cowper. Task, b. il

Fr. Mutir, esmeutir, seems formed upon the noun esmeute, a motion or commotion; and to be employed, physically or medically, as to move, a motion, now in English are. And thus,

Mute, that which is moved (motum,) sc. out of the bowels.

Upon the cake, the plumbe-tree and the holme,
The stock-dove and the blackbird should not come,
Whose muting on those trees does make to grow
Rots-curing hyphear, and the misseltoe.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 1.

According unto ancient tradition and Plinie's relation, the bird not able to digest the fruit whereon she feedeth; from her inconverted muting, ariseth this plant of the berries where of birdlime is made, wherewith she is after entangled.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 6.

And I knew not that there were sparrows in the wall, and mine eyes being open the sparrows muted warm dung into mine eyes and a whiteness came in mine eyes. Bible. Tobit, ii. 10.

With hooting wild
Thou causest uproars; and our holy things,
Font, table, pulpit, they be all defil'd
With thy broad mutings.

More. Life of the Soul, b. ii. s. 119.

And nigh an ancient obelisk
Was rais'd by him, found out by Fisk,
On which was written, not in words,
But hieroglyphic mute of birds.

MUTE, adj. MUTE, n. MU'TELY. MUTENESS.

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Hudibras, pt. ii. ç. 3.

The which destiuable causes, whan thei passen out fro the beginnynges of unmouable perueiaunce, it mote nedes be that thei ne be not mutable, as thus. Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv. For if her whele stint any thing to tourne, Than cesseth she Fortune anone to be: Now sith her whele by no way may soiourn, What wost thou of her mutabilile? Id. Troil. & Cres. b. i. And here I vow me, faithful, true, and kind, Without offence of mutabilitie Humbly to serue, while I haue wit and mind. Id. The Court of Louc. Wenest thou that these mutations of fortune fleten without gouernour.-Id. Boecius, b. i.

A christian king vse in suche case (for the consideracion of theyr former estate and mutable chaunce of the warre) to shewe much humanitie to the. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1240. Is not here a sudden mutation.-Barnes. Workes, p. 343. Tob. Not one of my dragon's wings left to adorn me, Haue I muted all my feathers.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Little Thief, Act iv. sc. 1.

It may be, gnats and flies have their imagination more mulable, and giddy, as small birds likewise have. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 698.

What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele
Of change, the which all mortall things doth sway
But that thereby doth find, and plainly feele,
How mutability in them doth play
Her cruell sports to many men's decay.

Spenser. Faerie Queene. Of Mutabilitie, c. 6. But all that moveth doth mutation love.

Id. Ib. b. viii. c. 7. For in both there seemes to be a valuation of time; which whether in case of mutation, or sale, may justly be suspected for unlawful.-Bp. Hall. Cases of Conscience, Dec 1. Case 4.

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We may fitly transfer the apophthegme of Simonides, from. painting unto dancing, and say thus, that a dance is a mute poesie, and poesie a speaking dance.-Holland. Plut. p. 656. Hail native Language that by sinews weak Didst move my first endeavouring tongue to speak, And mid'st imperfect words with childish trips, Half unpronounc'd, slide through my infant lips, Driving dumb silence from the portal door, Where he had mutely sat two years before.

Millon. At a Vacation Exercise,

The soberest and best govern'd men are least practis'd in these affairs; and who knows not that the bashful muteness of a virgin may oft-times hide all the unliveliness and natural sloth which is really unfit for conversation.

Id. The Doctrine of Divorce, b. i. c. 3.

To the indictment here upon, he [John Biddle] prays council might be allowed him to plead the illegality of it; which being denied him by the judges, and the sentence of a mule threatened, he at length gave into court his exceptious ingrossed in parchment.-Wood. Athena Oxon. vol. ii. The bear, the boar, and every savage name, Wild in effect, though in appearance tame, Lay waste thy woods, destroy thy blissful bower, And, muzzled though they seem, the mufcs devour. Dryden. The Hind and the Punther.

Regularly a prisoner is said to stand mute, when, being arraigned for treason or felony, he either, 1. makes no answer at all: or, 2. answers foreign to the purpose, or with such matter as is not allowable; and will not answer otherwise: or, 8. upon having pladed not guilty, refuses to put himself upon the country.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 25.

Bribe him, to feast my mule-imploring eye,
With some proud lord, who smiles a gracious lie!
A lie to captivate my heedless youth,
Degrade my talents, and debauch my truth.

Smollett. Advice, a Satire.

MUTILATE, v. Fr. Mutiler; It. Mutilarc; MUTILATION. Sp. Mutilar; Lat. Mutilare, from mutilus, i. e. captus aliqua parte corporis, from mutus, dumb. See MUTE.

To take away, cut off, in any way deprive of, some part of the entire body; to maim, to dismember.

Yea we are much bound vnto him, although he haue made vs imperfect and mutilate.-Fryth. Workes, p. 90.

As I haue declared you before in my preface, I will not in any worde wyllinglye mangle or mutilate that honourable man's worke.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1291.

Any one that will take but a little pains in examining the nature of them, may be fully satisfied that the scriptures are hereby, neither mutilated or depraved.

Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. v. c. 1. s. 40.

For we observe the mutilations are not transmitted from father unto son; the blinde begetting suche as can see, men with one eye, children with two; and cripples mutilate in their own persons do come out perfect in their generations. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 2. Because the loss or mutilation of an able man, is also a loss to the commonweal. Ralegh. History of the World, b. v. c. S. 8. 2.

He [Coluthus Lycopolltes] is said to have been the author of several poems; none of which have come down to us except this, which in many passages is corrupt and mutilated.-Fawkes. Notes to the Rape of Helen.

When a man is in emminent danger of the mutilation of a leg or an arm, or the like, it is lawful to prevent the loss of either by the death of the assailant.-South, vol. x. Ser. 8. The rhapsodies of Homer were scattered up and down amongst the cities of Greece, which the itinerant poet had visited, and were necessarily in a very mutilated state, or recorded in men's memories after an imperfect manner and by piece-meal only.-Observer, No. 120.

MUTINE, or MU'TINY.

MUTINE'ER.

MU'TINOUS.

Fr. Mutiner; It. Ammutinarsi; Sp. Amotinarse. Skinner says-from motus, a motion, or from mutire, to murmur. MU'TINOUSLY. His first conjecture seems the MUTINYING, n. more rational, i. e. from motus; but through the verb mutir, esmeutir, to move; esmeute, a motion or commotion.

To move or commove; to raise a commotion, to (insurge or) make an insurrection; to rise, (sc.) against authority.

This was good for Maximilian, if he could have seen the people mutined, to arrest fury, and preuent dispaire. Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 86. He staieth the legion at Bebriacum being hardly withholden from mutining, because he would not lead them to fight.-Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 65.

Doe like the mutines of Jerusalem,

Be friends awhile.-Shakespeare. King John, Act ii. sc. 2.

Great prince, it is within your power with ease,
To remedy such fears, such jealousies,
And rid you of such mutineers as these.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. i. Then brought he forth Sedition, breeding stryfe In troublous wits and mutinous uprore. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 9. The same soldiers, who in hard service and in the battle, are in perfect subjection to their leaders, in peace and luxury are apt to mutiny and rebell.-South, vol. ii. Ser. 4.

Hugh Peters held a discourse with the arch-rebel his master upon the mutinying of the army about St. Alban's. Id. vol. vi. Ser. 1.

In 1486, Bartholomew Diaz, a Portuguese captain, with three ships attempted the discovery of India by the coast of Africa; but, harassed by tempests, his crew mutinied, and having discovered the river del Infante, on the Eastern side of Africa, he returned to Europe.

Mickle. Discovery of India, App.

On the 14th of April, 1797, Lord Bridport, the admiral, unsuspicious of the mutiny, making a signal to prepare for sea, the seamen of his own ship, instead of weighing anchor, ran up the shrouds, and gave three cheers, which were instantly answered from the other ships.

Belsham. History of Great Britain. Geo. III. an. 1797.

MUTTER, v.

MUTTER, n.

MUTTERER. MUTTERING, N.

MUTE.

In Dut. Muyten; Lat. Mutire; to speak as one mute, or having the organs of speech See stopped or obstructed.

To speak inarticulately, indistinctly.
With that he smote his hedde adowne anone
And gan to mutire, I nat what truely.
Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. ii.
Perchaunce some open mouth will mutter now and than.
Gascoigne. A Gloze vpon this Text, Dominus, &c.

Now do they persecute them for keepyng the comaundementes of God, in mariage, in receiuinge meates with thanksgeuing, & not in goynge out to seke Christ here and there in theyr masses & mutterynges, in theyr outward coloures and shaddowes.-Bule. Image, pt. ii.

They multered extremely that it was a thing not to bee suffered, that for a little stirre of the Scotts, soone blowne ouer, they should bee thus grinded to powder with payments. Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 163. Whose leaves still mull'ring as the air doth breathe With the sweet bubbling of the stream beneath, Doth rock the senses.

Drayton. Henry Howard to Lady Geraldine. The roaring voice of winds, the billows rave, Nor all the mutt'ring of the sullen wave, Could once disquiet, or her slumber stirre.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 3. Where sounding strings and artful voices fail, The charming rod and mutler'd spells prevail. Addison. Epilogue to Lansdown's British Enchantress. The words of a mutterer, saith the Wiseman, are as wounds, going into the innermost parts of the belly.

Barrow. On the Decalogue. IX Commandment. MUTTON. Fr. Mouton; aries castratus; from Ger. Mutzen, truncare, and this from Mahen, to cut. (See Mutzen in Wachter, and Mouton in Menage.) Applied now

To the flesh or meat of sheep; formerly to the animal itself.

And gaf hem echone Coupes of clene gold. and coppes of selver Rynges wt rubies. and othr riche giftes The leste of here meyne. a moten of golde. Piers Plouhman, p. 39. The wolfe in peace with the motton.-Gower. Con. A. b. 1.

Fyue flocks of sheepe could scarce maintaine good mutten for his house.

Gascoigne. A Gloze rpon this Text, Dominus, &c. Also by reason of the murren that fell among the cattell, beefes and muttons were vnresonablie priced. Holinshed. Edw. II. an. 1317. For the offenders and breakers of the law were condemned to pay for a penalty, the value of five oxen and two muttons. North. Plutarch, p. 87. At the great triumph and entry made, the captain or generall that triumpheth as a conqueror, did offer the sacrifice (by the old orders and ancient customs of Rome) one or divers oxon: where at the second triumph called the ova tion, he onely sacrificed a mutton.-Id. Ib. p. 265.

The felon thus of old, his name to save,
His pilfer'd mutton to a brother gave.

MUTUAL. MUTUALLY. MUTUALITY.

Falconer. The Demagogue. Fr. Mutuel; It. Mutuo; Sp. Mutual; Lat. Mutuus. Varro says the Romans had the word from the Sicilian, Morov, which Vossius thinks is formed of μοι τεον, οι μοι τον, mihi tuum. Interchangeable, reciprocal.

Well let this passe, and thinke vppon the ioye,
The mutuall loue, the confidence, the trust,
Whereby we both abandoned annoye,
And fed our mindes with fruites of louely lust.
Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe.

He neyther seeth assemblics, nor can assigne and proue any cospуracy & mutuall promise in assisting eche other about the procurement of any thyng at all good or badde. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1019. Th' uncertain Commons touch'd with inward care, As though his sorrows mutually they bare.

Drayton. Queen Isabel to King Richard II. Her goodly wares of mercenary masses, of pardons and indulgences of the mutuatitious good works of their pretended holy men and women. More. Ant. against Idolatry, c. 10. Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony or true delight? Which must be mutual, in proportion due Giy'n and received. Millon. Paradise Lost, b. viii.

God, in the nature of each Being, founds
Its proper bliss, and sets its proper bounds:
But as he fram'd a whole, the whole to bless,
On mutual wants built mutual happiness:
So from the first eternal order ran,
And creature link'd to creature, man to man.

Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. 8

May I, at least, the sacred pleasures know Of strictest amity; nor ever want A friend, with whom I mutually may share Gladness and anguish, by kind intercourse Of speech and offices. J. Philips. Cider, b. L The sciences are said, and they are truly said to have that mutual connexion, that any one of them may be the better understood for an insight into the rest.

MUZZLE, v. Muzzle, n.

Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 1. Anciently written Mosel. Fr. Muselière; It. Musoliera. From Fr. Museau; It. Muso, which Skinner thinks may have been formed from the A. S. Muth, the mouth. Muzzle is applied to

The mouth; and to any thing to fasten, close, or confine the mouth. To muzzle,

To do any thing with the mouth or muzzle; to fasten, to bind, to constrain the mouth. And like a greyhound the mosell and the head.

Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. ii.

About his char ther wenten white alanns,
Twenty and mo, as gret as any stere,
To hunten at the leon or the dere,
And folwed him, with mosel fast ybound.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2185. Thou shalte not mosel the oxe that treadeth out the corne, Bible, 1551. Deuteronomy, c. 25.

Or who will muzzle that unruly bear
Whose presence strikes our people's hearts with fear?
Drayton. Queen Margaret to the Duke of Norfolk.
At last, when as he found his force to shrincke
And rage to quaile, he took a muzzle strong
Of surest yron made with many a lincke.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 12.
How wretched is the fate of those who write!
Brought muzzled to the stage, for fear they bite.
Dryden. Prologue to the Pilgrim.

Of a black muzzle, and long beard, beware;
And let a skilful barber cut your hair.

MY.

MINE. MYSELF.

Id. Ovid. Art of Lore. Fr. Mien, mon; It. Mio; Sp. Mio; Lat. Meus; Gr. Euos; Goth. Meins; A. S. Min; Dut. Myn; See ME.

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Ger. Meyn; Sw. Min.
Of or belonging to me.

Ac for me my self, ich wol soth segge of this dede.
R. Gloucester, p. 30.
For mon thou art y wis,
To wynne get a kyngdom, wel beter than myn ys.
The dede that I did ille, my foly it was,
I praye the with gode wille, forgyue me that trespas.
R. Brunne, p. 163.

Id. p. 13.

And ich schal sende gow myselve Seynt Michel myn aungel. Piers Plouhman, p. 194.

I mysilf bi the soule serue to the lawe of God, but bi fleishe to the lawe of synne.-Wiclif. Romayns, c.7.

And Jhesus seide to her, what to me and to thee womman? myn our cam not yet.-Id. Jon, c. 2.

Jesus sayde vnto her: Woman, what haue I to doe with thee? Myne houre is not yet come.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And for to maken you the more mery,

I wol myselven gladly with you ride,

Right at myn owen cost, and be your gide.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 805.

I maie not stretche vp to the heuen

Myn honde no set al in euen,

This worlde which euer is in balance.

It stant not in my suffisance

So greate thinges to compasse.-Gower. Con. 4. b. i.

And for to proue it is so

I am my selfe one of tho

Which to this schole am vnderfonge.-Id. Ib.
When I was yet a child, no childish play
To me was pleasing, all my mind was set,
Serious to learn and know, and thence to do
What might be publick good; myself I thought
Born to that end, born to promote all truth,
All righteous things; therefore above my years,
The law of God I read, and found it sweet.

Millon. Paradise Regained, b. 1.

If God shall be pleased to make me his almoner, and the conduit by which his goodness may descend upon my distressed neighbour; though the charity be personally mine, yet both of us have cause to thank God for it, I that I can be virtuous, and he that he is relieved.-South, vol.iv. Ser.2.

When a man deceives me once, says the Italian proverb, it is his fault; when twice, it is mine. Horne. Works, vol. vi. Dis. 5. Note.

MYRIAD. Fr. Myriade; Lat. Myrias; Gr. Mupias, which nearly corresponds with the Lat. Infinitus, or sexcentum, and is used for any number that cannot easily be counted, (Lennep.)

But O how fall'n! How chang'd
From him, who in the happy realms of light
Cloth'd with transcendent brightness didst outshine
Myriads though bright.-Millon. Paradise Lost, b. i.

How came the transactions of so many myriads of years [eternity] to be swallowed up in such deep silence and oblivion?-South, vol. ix. Ser. 3.

His lofty stature, where a myriad shine,
O'ertops and speaks a majesty divine.

Parnell. The Gift of Poetry.

MYRO BALANE. Gr. MupoBaλavos, glans unguentana; uvpov, unguentum, and Baλavos, glans; Fr. Myrobalan," an East-Indian plum, whereof there be divers kinds," (Cotgrave.) And see Pliny, (b. xii. c. 21.)

An aromatic acorn or nut; a dried fruit, something like a date or plum, (Nares.)

But as for the Mirobalane it hath parts of contrary natures; for it is sweet and astringent.

Bacon. Naturall Hislorie, § 644. Sub. Slight! she melts Like a Myrobalane.-B. Jonson. Alchymist, Activ. sc. 1.

The more ich muse ther on. the mystiloker hit semeth. Piers Ploukman, p. 190. Honour and glorie be to him that is myghty to conferme ghou bi my gospel and prechyng of Iesu Crist bi the reuelacioun of mysterie holdun stille in tymes euerlastynge. Wiclif. Romaynes, c. 16.

To him that is of power to establishe you accordynge to my gospell and preachynge of Jesus Christe, in vtterynge of the mysterie whyche was kepte secrete sence the worlde beganne.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Preestes ben as angels, as by the mysterie of hir dignitee.

Chaucer. The Persones Tale. These thinges are mistical and not to bee vnderstoode but by Thaucthour him selfe. Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe, Note. This psalme was made of our sauiour Christ, because it was not conueniente to descrybe hym without a misticall woorde, he calleth hym the dawninge, (or as some wyl,) the morninge starre.-Bible, 1551. Psalm 22. Notes.

I will explaine, that which being before misticallie in seducing you.-Gascoigne. To the Youth England.

The ceremonial law, with all its mystic rites (which, like the manger of the shepherds, holds forth wrapped in his swathing clothes the infant Jesus) to many, that bestow the reading on it, seems scarce worth it: yet what use the

apostles made of it with the Jews?

Boyle. Workes, vol. ii. p. 278.

Mysticks and fanaticks are known to abound as well in our reformed as in the Romish Church. Shaftesbury. Miscel. Ref. 2. c. 1.

I profess not myself either skilled or delighted in mystical interpretations of scripture.-South, vol. v. Ser. 2.

By a silent, unseen, mysterious process, the fairest flower of the garden springs from a small insignificant seed, the majestic oak of the forest from an acorn, the strongest and wisest man from a wretched, helpless, and senseless infant; the holy and exalted saint from a miserable sinner. Horne. Works, vol. iv. Disc. 2. The beauty certainly is mystic,-the beauty of evangelical sanctity and innocence.-Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 8.

Time was when, I knew not what, mystical meanings were drawn, by a certain cabalistic alchymy, from the simplest expressions of holy writ-from expressions in which yond the particular occasion, upon which they were introno allusion could reasonably be supposed to any thing beduced.-Id. Ser. 1.

The epithet sublime is strongly and happily descriptive of the feelings inspired by the genius of that author | Plato]; by the lofty mysticism of his philosophy; and even by the remote origin of the theological fables which are said to have descended to him from Orpheus. Stewart. Philosophical Essays, Ess. 2. c. 5. With regard to the other part of the secret, the Doctrine of the Unity, Clemens Alexandrinus informs us, that the crets. Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. ii. s. 4.

With roddes upright and braunches thicke a myrtil bushe there grew. Phaer. Virgill. Eneidos, b. iii. Nature hath shewed her wonderful power and bountie, especially in the juice of the myrtle, considering that of all fruits, it alone doth yeeld two sorts both of oile and wine. Holland. Plinie, b. xv. c. 29. Them she upstaies Gently with mirtle band, inindless the while, Her self, though fairest unsupported flour, From her best prop so farr, and storm so nigh.

Millon. Paradise Lost, b. ix.

A muse, that long hath wander'd in the groves
Of myrtle-indolence, atteinpts to sing.

MYSTERY.
MYSTERIAL.

MYSTERIOUS. MYSTERIOUSLY. MYSTERIOUSNESS. MY'STERIZE, V. MY'STICK, adj. MY'STICK, n. MY'STICAL. MY'STICALLY. MY'STICISM. MY'STAGOGUE. MYSTAGOGICK. MYSTAGOGICAL.

Grainger. The Sugar Cane, b. i.

Fr. Mystère, mystique; It. and Sp. Misterio, mistico; Lat. Mysterium, mysticus;

Gr. Μυστηριον, μυστικός. Vossius exhibits a variety of conjectures. The opinion of Eustathius, adopted by Lennep and Valcknaer, seems well founded. From Μεμύσται, the third person of the pret. pass. of μvely, claudere, were formed uvOTns, qui claudit et celat, and hence vornp, μvorпpiov, quod clauditur et celatur; that which is shut up,

So the word mystery, though at first restrain'd to signify only a ceremony not to be divulged: yet by use (against whatever else is any way secret, or abstruse, either not at all, or not entirely, or not easily understood, is said to be mysterious.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. v. c. 6. s. 42.

Beauty and Love, whose story is mysteriall,
In yonder palme-tree, and the crowne imperiall,
Doe from the rose and lilly so delicious
Promise a shade, shall ever be propitious
To both the kingdomes.

B. Jonson. Love's Triumph, &c. A Masque. Each stair mysteriously was meant, nor stood There alwayes, but drawn up to heav'n sometimes Viewless. Millon. Paradise Lost, b. iii. He caused us to be born of Christian parents, under whom we were taught the misleriousness of its goodness and designs for the redemption of man.-Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 12. [The cabalists] mysterizing their ensignes, do make the particular ones of the twelve tribes, accommodable unto the twelve signs in the zodiack, and twelve moneths in the year. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 10.

Fool, thou did'st not understand The mystic language of the eye nor hand.-Donne, Elegy 6. Mystical dance, which yonder starrie spheare Of planets and of fixt, in all her wheeles Resembles nearest. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v.

Of which one's [Sybils] books twice scorn'd, thrice valu'd, bought,

Rome strictly kept with a religious care,
From which her fates she long with reverence sought,
As all charactred mystically there.

Stirling. Domes-day. The Fifth Houre. We find in the records of the church, that the persons to be baptized were quite naked; as is to be seen in many places, particularly in the 11. Mystagogick catechism of S. Cyril of Jerusalem.-Bp.Taylor. Rule of Consc. b. iii. c. 4.

Let first the mystagogical illuminations of the Great Areopagite and the Ascetike discipline of the Anachoretical inhabitants of the wilderness, purifie thy eye; before thou

attemptest to speak or to aim at the discovery of these abisming depths.-Digby. On the Soul, Conclusion.

mysteries of the gospel; to track the mysterious workings of the Spirit in conviction and conversion?

Wat master of reason or subtilty is able to unriddle the

South, vol. viii. Ser. 13.

Could we have a more pregnant demonstration of a reconciled God, than a sacrificed son, nay than the blood of that son? and that so mysteriously, and yet so really, conveyed to us?-Id. Ser. 5.

A third cause of the unavoidable misteriousness of the chief articles of the Christian religion is that most of them. fall, neither within the common course of men's actings, nor the compass of their observation.-Id. vol. iii. Ser. 6.

MYTHOLOGY. MYTHOLOGIST. MYTHOLOGICAL. MYTHOLOGICK. MYTHOLOGICALLY. MYTHOLOGIZE. MYTHOLO'GRAPHER. MYTHOLOGUE.

Fr. Mythologiser, mythologie; It. and Sp.Mitologia; Lat. Mythologia; Gr. Μυθολογια, from μύθος, a fable, and λey-ew, to tell; Fr. Mythologiser,to expound or moralize the fable. Mythologe,—

an expounder of fables, (Cotgrave.) Geddes coins the word, Mythologue," in the fair mint of English analogy:" he applies it to the exposition; the Fr. to the expounder.

Mythology,-A discourse of or upon; an exposition or explication of, a system of fable or fabulous story, a history.

All which may still be received in some acceptions of morality, and to a pregnant invention, may afford commendable mythologie: but in a natural and proper exposition, it containeth impossibilities, and things not consistent with truth.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 8.

Surely, it is no marvell that (as our mythologists tell us of old) discord took it ill that she was not called to the banquet of the celestial powers, but shut out of the doors of heaven. Bp. Hall. The Peace Maker, s. 25. The mythological interpretation of these I purposely omit, as both over-long to be here set down and no less perplexed, than the labours [of Hercules] themselves.

Ralegh. History of the World, b. ii. c. 16. s. 6.
Ovid's Metamorphosis Englishized, Mythologized, and
Represented in Figures.-Sandys. Ovid. Metam. The Title.
Though love be all the world's pretence,
Money's the mythologic sense,

The real substance of the shadow.-Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 1.
Upon her shoulders wings she wears,
Like hanging sleeves, lin'd through with ears,
And eyes, and tongues, as poets list,
Made good by deep mythologist.

Id. Ib.

An essay at the rationality of the art of speaking, as a supplement to Lilye's Grammar, philosophically, mythologically, and emblematically offered. Lond. 1659. [Basset Jhones.]-Wood. Athena Oxon. vol. ii.

The statues of Mars and Venus, I imagine, had been copied from Fulgentius, Boccacio's favourite mythographer.

Warton. History of Poetry, vol. i. Addenda.

If we may suppose that the Hebrew historiographer invented his Hexahemeron, or six days creation, to inforce more strongly the observance of the sabbath; which I think more than probable; may we not, in like manner, consider his history of the Fall, as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human ovil: and of man's antipathy to the reptile race.-Geddes. Pref. to Translation of the Bible.

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