4. Sordidness; niggardliness. MEANT. perf. and part. pass. of To mean. By Silvia if thy charming self be meant; If friendship be thy virgin vows extent: O! let me in Aminta's praises join; Her's my esteem shall be, my passion thine. Prior. MEASE. n. s. [probably a corruption of measure: as, a mease of herrings is five hundred.] Ainsworth. MEASLES. n. s. [morbilli, Lat.] 1. Measles are a critical eruption in a fever, well known in the common practice. Quincy. My lungs Coin words till their decay, against those measles, Which we disdain should tetter us, yet seek The very way to catch them. Shakesp. Coriolanus. Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal, as likewise the measles. 2. A disease of swine. He lived according to nature, the other by ill customs, and measures taken by other mens eyes and tongues. Taylor. God's goodness is the measure of his providence. More. 1 expect, from those that judge by first sight and rash measures, to be thought fond or insolent. Granville's Scepsis. 3. Proportion; quantity settled. Measure is that which perfecteth all things, because every thing is for some end; neither can that thing be available to any end, which is not proportionable thereunto; and to proportion as well excesses as defects are opposite. Hooker. I enter not into the particulars of the law of nature, or its measures of punishment; yet there is such a law. Locke. 4. A stated quantity: as, a measure of 5. Arbuthnot. 6. And dismally was heard to whine, All as she scrubb'd her measly rump. MEASURABLE. adj. [from measure.] 1. Such as may be measured; such as may admit of computation. God's eternal duration is permanent and invisible, not measurable by time and motion, nor to be computed by number of successive moments. Bentley's Sermons. 2. Moderate; in small quantity. MEASURABLENESS. n. s. [from measurable.] Quality of admitting to be measured. Till either death hath clos'd these eyes of mine, Or fortune given me measure of revenge. Shakesp. Allotment; portion allotted. Good Kent, how shall I live and work To match thy goodness? life will be too short, And every measure fail me. Shakesp. King Lear. We will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. 2 Cor. x. 13. If else thou seek'st Ought, not surpassing human measure, say. Milt. Our religion sets before us not the example of a stupid stoick, who bad, by obstinate principles, hardened himself against all pain beyond the common measures of humanity, but an example of a man like ourselves. Tillotson. 7. Degree; quantity. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the mea sure of my days what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Psalms. 13. Any thing adjusted. Christ reveals to us the measures according to which God will proceed in dispensing his rewards. Smalridge's Sermons. 14. Syllables metrically numbered; metre. I addressed them to a lady, and affected the softness of expression, and the smoothness of measure, rather than the height of thought. Dryden. The numbers themselves, though of the heroick measure, should be the smoothest imaginable. Pope. 15. Tune; proportionate notes. The joyous nymphs and light-foot fairies, Which thither came to hear their musick sweet, And to the measures of their melodies Did learn to move their nimble-shifting feet. Spens. 16. Mean of action; mean to an end. The original of this phrase refers to the necessity of measuring the ground upon which any structure is to be raised, or any distant effect to be produced, as in shooting at a mark. Hence he that proportioned his means to his end was said to take right measures. By degrees measures and means were confounded, and any thing done for an end, and sometimes any transaction absolutely, is called a measure, with no more propriety than if, because an archer might be said to have taken wrong measures when his mark was beyond his reach, we should say that it was a bad measure to use a heavy arrow. His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error. Clarendon. 17. To have hard measure; to be hardly treated. I have laid down, iu some measure, the description of the old world. Abbot's Descrip. of the World. There is a great measure of discretion to be used in the performance of confession, so that you neither omit it when your own heart may tell you that there is something amiss, ner over scrupu- To MEASURE. v. a. [mesurer, Fr. menlously pursue it when you are not conscious to yourself of notable failings. Taylor. The rains were but preparatory in some measure, and the violence and consummation of the deluge depended upon the disruption of the great abyss. Burnet's Theory. 8. Proportionate time; musical time. Amaryllis breathes thy secret pains, Andthyfond heart beatsmeasureto thy strains. Prior. Motion harmonically regulated. 9. My legs can keep no measure in delight, MEASURABLY. adv. [from measurable.] MEASURE. n. s. [mesure, Fr. mensura, Lat.] 1. That by which any thing is measured. A taylor's news, Who stood with shears and measure in his hand, All magnitudes are capable of being measured; but it is the application of one to another which makes actual measure. Holder. Wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace; the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding mannerly, modest as a measure, full of state and anchentry. Shakesp. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreathis, Our stern alarms chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Shak. 11. Moderation; not excess. O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy; In measure reign thy joy, scant this excess; I feel too much thy blessing, make it less, For fear I surfeit. Shakesp. Merchant of Venice. Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her Isa. vi. 14. mouth without measure. When Moses speaks of measures, for example, of an ephah, he presumes they knew what measure 12. Limit; boundary. In the same sense is he meant that he himself was skilled in weights and measures, arithmetick and geometry, there is no reason to doubt. Arbuthnot on Coins. 2. The rule by which any thing is adjusted or proportioned. Μέτρον Τρεῖς ἐτίων δεκάδας τριάδιας δύο, μέτρον ἔθηκαν suro, Lat.] 1. To compute the quantity of any thing by some settled rule. Archidamus having received from Philip, after the victory of Cheronea, proud letters, writ back, that if he measured his own shadow he would find it no longer than it was before his victory. Bacon. 2. To pass through; to judge of extent by marching over. A true devoted pilgrim is not weary At the park-gate; and therefore haste away, And measures back with speed her former way. Dry. 3. To judge of quantity or extent, or greatness. 4. 5. Great are thy works, Jehovah! infinite Thy pow'r! What thought can measure thee, or tongue Relate thee? Milton's Paradise Lost. To adjust; to proportion. To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires. Taylor. Silver is the instrument as well as measure of commerce; and 'tis by the quantity of silver he gets for any commodity in exchange, that he measures the value of the commodity he sells. Locke. To mark out in stated quantities. What thou seest is that portion of eternity which 2. Food in general. Never words were musick to thine ear, And never meat sweet-savour'd in thy taste, Fed; fod Do not bid me MECHANICKS. n. s. [mechanica, Lat.] Dr. Wallis defines mechanicks to be the geometry MECHANICALLY. adv. [from mechanick.] As a medullist, you are not to look upon a ca- To ME ́DDLE. v. n. [middelen, Dut.] 2. MECHANICALNESS. n. s. [from mecha-3. 1. Agreeableness to the laws of mecha- 2. Meanness. MECHANICIAN. n. s. [mechanicien, Fr.] Unless I spake or carv'd. Shak. Comedy of Errours. For drink the grape The air feels more moist when the water is in small than in great drops; in mearling and soaking rain, than in great showers. Arbuthnot on Air. MECHANICAL. adj. [mechanicus, Lat. MECHANICK. S mechanique, Fr. from μηχανη.] 1. Constructed by the laws of mechanicks. Many a fair precept in poetry, is like a seeming demonstration in mathematicks, very specious in the diagram, but failing in the mechanick operation. Dryden. The main business of natural philosophy, is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these, and such like questions. Newton. 2. Skilled in mechanicks; bred to manual labour. Some were figured like male, others like female Action according to mechanick laws. After the chyle has passed through the lungs, nature continues her usual mechanism, to convert it into animal substances. Arbuthnot on Aliments. He acknowledged nothing besides matter and 2. Construction of parts depending on Mechoacan is a large root, twelve or fourteen inches long; the plant which affords it is a species Infants new-born have a meconium, or sort of MEDAL n. s. [medaille, Fr. probably 1. An ancient coin. The Roman medals were their current money: when an action deserved to be recorded on a coin, 2. A piece stamped in honour of some re- MEDALLICK. adj. [from medal.] Per- You will never, with all your medallick elo- MEDALLION. n. s. [medaillon, Fr.] A Medallions, in respect of the other coins, were the same as modern medals in respect of modern money. Addison. MECHANICK. n.s. A manufacturer; a MEDALLIST. n. s. [medailliste, Fr.] low workman. man skilled or curious in medals. A It is reported that cassia, when gathered, is put into the skins of beasts newly flaved, which breeding worms, they devour the pith and marrow, and so make it hollow; but meddle not with the Bacon. back, because it is bitter. With the power of it upon the spirits of men we will only meddle. Bacon's Natural History. I have thus far been an upright judge, not meddling with the design or disposition. Dryden. To interpose; to act in any thing. For my part, I'll not meddle nor make any farther. Shakesp. In every turn of state, without meddling n either side, he has always been favourable to merit. Drud. The civil lawyers have pretended to determine concerning the succession of princes; but, by ou author's principles, have meddled in a matter tha belongs not to them. Locke. What hast thou to do to meddle with the affairs of my family to dispose of my estate, old boy? Arbuthnot To interpose or intervene importunely or officiously. Why should'st thou meddle to thy hurt? 2 Kings, xiv. 10. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. Prov. xx. 8. This meddling priest longs to be found a fool. Rowe. Let me shake off th' intrusive cares of day, And lay the meddling senses all aside. Thomson. To ME ́DDLE. v. a. [from mesler, Fr.] To mix to mingle. Obsolete. He that had well ycon'd his lere, Thus meddled his talk with many a teare. Spenser. A meddled state of the orders of the gospel, and ceremonies of popery, is not the best way to banish popery Hooker. MEDDLER. n. s. [from meddle.] One who busies himself with things in which he has no concern. Do not drive away such as bring thee information, as meddlers, but accept of them in good part. Bacon. 2. To limit by something in the middle. They styled a double step, the space from the elevation of one foot to the same foot set down! Holder. again, mediated by a step of the other foot, a pace, equal to five feet. MEDIATE. adj. [mediat, Fr. medius, Lat.] 1. Interposed; intervening. Soon the mediate clouds shall be dispell'd; The sun shall soon be face to face beheld. Prior. 2. Middle; between two extremes. Anxious we hover in a mediate state, Betwixt infinity and nothing. 3. Acting as a means. Unusual. Prior. The most important care of a new king, was his marriage for mediate establishment of the royal line. Wotton. MEDIATELY. adv. [from mediate.] By a secondary cause; in such a manner that something acts between the first cause and the last effect. God worketh all things amongst us mediately by secondary means; the which meaus of our safety being shipping and sea-forces, are to be esteemed as his gifts, and then only available and beneficial when he vouchsafeth kis grace to use them aright. Raleigh's Essays. Pestilent contagion is propagated immediately by conversing with infected persons, and mediately by pestilent seminaries propagated through the Harvey on Consumptions. air. MEDIA'TION. n. s. [mediation, Fr. from medius, Lat.] 1. Interposition; intervention; agency between two parties, practised by a common friend. Some nobler token I have kept apart For Livia and Octavia, to induce Their mediation. Shakesp. Antony and Cleopatra. Noble offices thou may'st effect Of mediation, after I am dead, Between his greatness and thy other brethren. Shak. The king sought unto them to compose those troubles between him and his subjects; they accordingly interposed their mediation in a round and princely manner. Bacon. 2. Agency interposed; intervenient power. The passions have their residence in the sensitive appetite for inasmuch as man is a compound of flesh as well as spirit, the soul, during its abode in the body, does all things by the mediation of these passions. South's Sermons. It is utterly unconceivable, that inanimate brute matter, without the mediation of some immaterial being, should operate upon other matter without mutual contact. Bentley. 3. Intercession; entreaty for another. MEDIATOR. n. s. [mediateur, Fr.] 1. One that intervenes between two par ties. You had found by experience the trouble of all mens confluence, and for all matters to yourself, as a mediator between them and their sovereign. Bacon's Advice to Villiers. 2. An intercessor; an entreater for another; one who uses his influence in favour of another. It is against the sense of the law, to make saints or angels to be mediators between God and them. Stilling fleet. 3. One of the characters of our blessed Saviour. A mediator is considered two ways, by nature or by office, as the fathers distinguish. He is a mediator by nature, as partaking of both natures divine and human; and mediator by office, as transacting matters between God and man. Waterl. Man's friend, his mediator, his desigu'd, Both ransom and redeemer voluntary. MEDIATO'RIAL. adj. [from mediator.] MEDIATORY. Belonging to a mediator. Milton. All other effects of Christ's mediatorial office are accounted for from the truth of his resurrection. Fiddes's Sermons. MEDIATORSHIP. n. s. [from mediator.] The office of a mediator. MEDIATRIX. n. s. [medius, Lat.] A female mediator. Ainsworth. MEDIC. n. s. [medica, Lat.] A plant. MEDICAL. adj. [medicus, Lat] Physical; relating to the art of healing; medicinal. In this work attempts will exceed performances, it being composed by snatches of time, as medical vacation would permit. Brown's Vulgar Errours. MEDICALLY. edv. [from medical.] Physically; medicinally. That which promoted this consideration, and medically advanced the same, was the doctrine of Hippocrates. Browne. MEDICAMENT. n. s. [medicament, Fr. medicamentum, Lat.] Any thing used in healing; general topical applications. Admonitions, fraternal or paternal, then publick reprehensions; and, upon the unsuccessfulness of these milder medicaments, the use of stronger physick, the censures. Hammond. A cruel wound was cured by scalding medicaments, after it was putrified; and the violent swelling and bruise of another was taken away by scalding it with milk. Temple's Miscel. MEDICAMENTAL. adj. [medicamenteux, Fr. from medicament.] Relating to medicine, internal or topical. MEDICAMENTALLY. adv. [from medicamental.] After the manner of medicine; with the power of medicine. 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. To MEDICATE. v. a. [medico, Lat.] To tincture or impregnate with any thing medicinal. The fumes, steams, and stenches of London, do so medicate and impregnate the air about it, that it becomes capable of little more. Graunt. To this may be ascribed the great effects of medicated waters. Arbuthnot on Aliments. MEDICATION. n. s. [from medicate.] 1. The act of tincturing or impregnating with medicinal ingredients. The watering of the plant with an infusion of the medicine may have more force than the rest, because the medication is oft renewed. Bacon. 2. The use of physick. He adviseth to observe the equinoxes and solstices, and to decline medication ten days before and after. Brown. MEDICINABLE. adj. [medicinalis, Lat.] Old oil is more clear and hot in medicinable use. Accept a bottle made of a serpentine stone, which gives any wine infused therein for four and twenty hours the taste and operation of the Spaw water, and is very medicinable for the cure of the spleen. Wotton. The hearts and galls of pikes are medicinable. Walt. MEDICINAL. adj. [medicinalis, Lat. This word is now commonly pronounced medicinal, with the accent on the second syllable; but more properly, and more agreeably to the best authorities, medicinal.] 1. Having the power of healing; having physical virtue. 2. Come with words as medicinal as true, Mangle my apprehensive tenderest parts; Dire inflammation, which no cooling herb All but eternal doom was conquer'd by their art. Belonging to physick. Learn'd he was in med'cinal lore, For by his side a pouch he wore, Replete with strange hermetick powder, That wounds nine miles point-blank with solder. Butler. Such are call'd medicinal-days by some writers, wherein no crisis or change is expected, so as to forbid the use of medicines: but it is most properly used for those days wherein purging, or any other evacuation, is more conveniently complied Quincy. with. Medicinal-hours are those wherein it is supposed that medicines may be taken, commonly reckoned in the morning fasting, about an hour before din ner, about four hours after dinner, and going to bed; but times are to be governed by the symp. toms and aggravation of the distemper. Quincy. MEDICINALLY. adv. [from medicinal.] Physically. The witnesses that leech-like liv'd on blood, Sucking for them were medicinally good. Dryden. MEDICINE. n. s. [medicine, Fr. medicina, Lat. It is generally pronounced as if only of two syllables, med'cine.] Physick; any remedy administered by a physician. O, my dear father! restauration, hang Thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss Repair those violent harms. Shakesp. King Lear. A merry heart doth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Prov. xvii. 22. I wish to die, yet dare not death endure; Detest the med'cine, yet desire the cure. Dryden. To MEDICINE. v. a. [from the noun.] To Not used. operate as physick. Not all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst yesterday. Shakesp. MEDIETY. n. s. [medieté, Fr. medietas, Lat.] Middle state; participation of two extremes; half. They contained no fishy composure, but were made up of man and bird; the human mediety yariously placed not only above but below. Brown's Vulgar Err. MEDIO'CRITY. n. s. [mediocrité, Fr. mediocritas, Lat.] 1. Moderate degree; middle rate. 2. Men of age seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success Bacon. There appeared a sudden and marvellous conversion in the duke's case, from the most exalted to the most depressed, as if his expedition had been capable of no mediocrities Wotton. He likens the mediocrity of wit to one of a mean fortune, who manages his store with great parsimony; but who, with fear of running into profuseness, never arrives to the magnificence of living. Dryden's State of Innocence. Getting and improving our knowledge in substances only by experience and history, is all that the weakness of our faculties in this state of medio crity, while we are in this world, can attain to. Locke. Moderation; temperance. Lest appetite, in the use of food, shoud .ead us beyond that which is meet, we owe obedience to that law of reason which teacheth mediocrity in meats and drinks. Hooker. When they urge us to extreme opposition against | the church of Rome, do they mean we should be drawn unto it only for a time, and afterwards return to a mediocrity? Hooker. To MEDITATE. v. a. [mediter, Fr. meditor, Lat.] 1. To plan; to scheme; to contrive. Some affirmed that I meditated a war; God Before the memory of the flood was lost, men meditated the setting up a false religion at Babel. Forbes. 2. To think on; to revolve in the mind. Them among There set a man of ripe and perfect age, Who did them meditate all his life long. Fairy Qu. Blessed is the man that doth meditate good things in wisdom, and that reasoneth of holy things. Ecclus. xiv. 20. To MEDITATE. v. n. To think; to muse; to contemplate; to dwell on with intense thought. It is commonly used of pious contemplation. His delight is in the law of the Lord, and in nis law doth he meditate night and day. Psalm i. 2. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of all thy doings. Psal. Ixxvii. 12. Meditate till you make some act of piety upon the occasion of what you meditate; either get some new arguments against a sin, or some new encouTaylor. ragements to virtue. To worship God, to study his will, to meditate upon him, and to love him; all these being pleasure and peace. Tillotson Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried. Bacon. I must bring together Philips Each mutually correcting each, create All these extremes; and must remove all mediums, He, who looks upon the soul through its out- Addison's Spectator. The parts of bodies on which their colours depend, are denser than the medium which perNewton. vades their interstices. Pertaining to the marrow. These little emissaries, united together at the cortical part of the brain, make the medullar part, being a bundle of very small, thread-like chanets or fibres. Cheyne's Phil. Principles. The back, for the security of that medullary substance that runs down its cavity, is bent after the manner of the catenarian curve. Cheune. Against filling the heavens with fluid mediums, 2. Any thing used in ratiocination, in This cannot be answered by those mediums 3. The middle place or degree; the just The just medium of this case lies betwixt the MEDLAR. n. s. [mespilus, Lat.] MEDITATION. n.s. [meditation, Fr. me-1. A tree. ditatio, Lat.] 1. Deep thought; close attention; contrivance; contemplation. I left the meditations wherein I was, and spake to her in anger. 2 Esd. x. 5. "Tis most true, That musing meditation most affects Milton. Some thought and meditation are necessary; and a man may possibly be so stupid as not to have God in all his thoughts, or to say in his heart, there is none. Bentley. 2. Thought employed upon sacred objects. His name was heavenly contemplation; Of God and goodness was his meditation. Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live. Fairy Q. The leaves of the medlar are either whole, and Now will be sit under a medlar tree, Shakesp. Romeo and Jul. Shakesp No rotten medlars, whilst there be 3. A series of thoughts, occasioned by any MEDITATIVE. adj. [from meditate.] 1. Addicted to meditation. Ainsworth. 2. Expressing intention or design. MEDITERRA'NE. MEDITERRANEAN. 1. Encircled with land. adj. [medius and In all that part that lieth on the north side of the mediterrane sea, it is thought not to be the vulgar tongue. 2. Inland; remote from the sea. } v. a. To mingle. Cleaveland. mass. Some imagined that the powder in the armory had taken fire; others, that troops of horsemen Love is a medley of endearments, jars, It is found in mountains and mediterraneous parts; and so it is a fat and unctuous sublimation of the earth. Brown. We have taken a less height of the mountains than is requisite, if we respect the mediterraneous mountains, or those that are at a great distance from the sea. Burnet. MEDIUM. n. s. [medium, Lat.] 1. Any thing intervening. Waish. They count their toilsome marches, long fa- Unusual fastings, and will bear no more The glaring lion saw, his horrid heart ME'EKNESS. n. s. [from meek.] Gentle Addison's Cato. MEER. adj. See MERE. Simple; un Mahomet began to knock down his fellowcitizens, and to fill all Arabia with an unnatural medley of religion and bloodshed. Addison. There are that a compounded fluid drain mixed. MEER. n. s. See MERE. A lake; a boundary. ME'ERED. adj. Relating to a boundary ; | To MEET. v. n. vision. What, although you fled! why should he fol low you? The itch of his affection should not then Have nickt his captainship; at such a point, When half to half the world oppos'd, he being The meered question. Shakesp. Ant. and Cleopatra. MEET. adj. [of obscure etymology.] 1. Fit; proper; qualified: applied both to persons and things. Now rarely used. Ah! my dear love, why do you sleep thus long, When meeter were that you should now awake? Spenser. If the election of the minister should be committed to every parish, would they chuse the Whitgift. meetest ? I am a tainted wether of the flock, Shakesp. Merchant of Venice. 2. Meet with. Even with. [from meet, Then born to distance by the tides of men, Like adamant and steel they meet again. Dryden. They appointed a day to meet in together.2 Mac. Met from all parts to solemnize this feast. Milton. 4. To meet with. To light on; to find: 6. When he cometh to experienceof service abroad, he maketh as worthy a soldier as any nation he Spenser. meeteth with. We met with many things worthy of observa Bacon. What a majesty and force does one meet with Niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much; but he'll be meet with you. Shakesp. 7. To MEET. v. a. pret. I met; I have [mezan, Sax. to met; particip. met. find; moeten, Dut.] 1. To come face to face; to encounter, Shakesp. His daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and dances. Judges, xi. 34. Mean while our primitive great sire, to meet His godlike guest, walks forth. Milton. 2. To encounter in hostility. To meet the noise Of his almighty engine, he shall hear Infernal thunder. Milton. So match'd they stood; For never but once more was either like 3. To encounter unexpectedly. Milton. So judge thou still, presumptuous, till the wrath, 4. To join another in the same place. I knew not till I met Milton. My friends, at Ceres' now deserted seat. Drydın. When what we love we ne'er must meet again. 5. To close one with another. Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury Before I proceed farther, it is good to meet Bacon. He yields himself to the man of business with MELANCHOLY. n. s. [melancolie, Fr. reluctancy, but offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility, and all the meeting readiness of desire. South. Our meeting hearts Consented soon, and marriage made us one. Rowe. 10. To unite, to join: as, these rivers meet at such a place and join. ME'ETER. n. s. [from meet.] One that accosts another. There are beside 1. An assembly; a convention. If the fathers and husbands of those, whose re- Since the ladies have been left out of all meet- Dryden. 2. An interview. The nearer you come to the end of the lake, the mountains on each side grow higher, till at last they meet. Addison. 6. To find; to be treated with; to light Let's be revenged on him; let's appoint him a meeting, and lead him on with a fine buited delay. Shakesp. 3. A conventicle; an assembly of Dissent 1. A disease, supposed to proceed from a redundance of black bile; but it is better known to arise from too heavy and too viscid blood: its cure is in evacuation, nervous medicines, and powerful stimuli. Quincy. 2. A kind of madness, in which the mind is always fixed on one object. 3. I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantas tical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politick; nor the lady's which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these; but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humoShakesp rous sadness. Moonstruck madness, moping melancholy. Milt. A gloomy, pensive, discontented temper. He protested, that he had only been to seek solitary places by an extreme melancholy that had Sidney. possessed him." All these gifts come from him; and if we mur. mur here, we may at the next melancholy be troubled that God did not make us angels. Taylor's Holy Living. This melancholy flatters, but unmans you; What is it else but penury of soul, |