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MIQUELETTES, a name given to the Spaniards who inhabit the Pyrennean Mountains, on the frontiers of Aragon and Catalonia, and subsist by robbing.
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MIQUELETTES
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MIRABEAU, Victor Riquetti, Marquis de, one of the most eminent propagators of the doctrines of the French Economists in France, was born at Perthuis on the 5th of October 1715. He was the eldest surviving male descendant of a family esteemed ancient and noble even in Provence, and established there for above five centu...
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MIRABEAU
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MIRABELLO, one of the circles into which the Turkish island of Candia is divided. It is a fruitful district in the north-east part of the island, and yields a surplus of corn, oil, and fruits. The chief place, of the same name, is situated on the Bay of Spinalonga, where there is a good anchorage. It is the see of a bi...
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MIRABELLO
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MIRACLE, in its original sense, is a word of the same import with woĭider; but in its usual and more appropriate signification it denotes “an effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a sensible deviation from the known laws of nature.” That the visible world is governed by stated genera...
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MIRACLE
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MIRANDE, an arrondissement of the department of [7:15:297] the Gers, in France, extending over 742 square miles. It comprehends eight cantons, divided into 229 communes, inhabited by 74,500 persons. The capital, a city of the same name, situated on the river Baise, is fortified, and contains 2100 inhabitants. Long. 0. ...
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42 33' N 0 11' E
MIRANDE
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MIRAN τ DOLA, a city of the duchy of Modena, in Italy. It stands in a marshy situation on the river Burana, whence a canal is carried to the Secchio. It is surrounded with walls, and has a cathedral and fifteen other churches, with about 7000 inhabitants. It was the capital of an independent duchy of the name till the ...
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MIRAN
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MIRECOURT, an arrondissement of the department of the Vosges, in France, 524 square miles in extent. It is divided into seven cantons, and subdivided into 156 communes, containing 71,500 inhabitants. The chief place is the city of the same name situated on the river Maudon. It contains 5200 inhabitants, who are occupie...
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48 50' N 5 5' E
MIRECOURT
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MIREPOIX, a city of France, in the department of the Upper Garonne and arrondissement of Pamiers. It is situated on the river Lers, in a district rich in good wine, and contains 450 houses, with 3100 inhabitants. In the neighbourhood a large quantity of jet is found, the procuring and polishing of which is said to empl...
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MIREPOIX
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MIRGOROD, a circle of the Russian province of Pultowa, extending in east longitude from 33. 37. to 34. 51. and in north latitude from 49. 51. to 50. 28. It is a district rich in corn, cattle, honey, wax, and fruits. The capital, of the same name, is a city situated on the river Khoral, 918 miles from St Petersburg, con...
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48 50' N 33 27' E
MIRGOROD
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MIRIAM. See Mary.
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MIRIAM
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MIRROR, a name for a looking-glass, or any polished body, the use of which is to form the images of distant objects, by reflection of the rays of light. Mirrors are either plane, convex, or concave. The plane reflect the rays of light in a direction exactly similar to that in which the latter fall upon them, and there...
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MIRROR
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MIRZAPORE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, and district of Chunar. It is situated at the foot of a range of hills on the south bank of the river Ganges. The town consists of handsome European houses and nai tive habitations, with clusters of Hindu temples crowding the banks of the Ganges, and making...
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25 10' N 83 35' E
MIRZAPORE
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MISADVENTURE, in common language, signifies any unlucky accident which takes place without being foreseen.
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MISADVENTURE
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MISANTHROPY (from αισος, hatred, and ανύζωπος, man), a general dislike or aversion to man and mankind. In this sense it stands opposed to philanthropy, or the love of mankind.
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MISANTHROPY
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MISCHNA, or Misna (from muz, iteravit), a part of the Jewish Talmud. The Mischna contains the text, and the Gemara, which is the second part of the Talmud, contains the commentaries; so that the Gemara is, as it were, a glossary on the Mischna. The Mischna consists of various traditions of the Jews, and explanations o...
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MISCHNA
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MISDEMEANOUR, in Law, signifies a crime. Every crime is a misdemeanour; yet the law has made a distinction between crimes of a higher and a lower kind; the former being denominated felonies, and the latter misdemeanours.
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MISDEMEANOUR
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MISE, in law-books, is used in various senses. Thus it sometimes signifies costs or expenses; in which sense it is commonly used in entering of judgments in actions personal. It is also used to signify the issue to be tried on the grand assize; in which case, joining of the mise upon the mere right, is putting in issue...
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MISE
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MISELAR, a mountainous island in the Eastern Seas, of an irregular form, and fifteen miles in circumference. It lies off the Bay of Tappanooly, on the west coast of Sumatra. Long. 98. 30. E. Lat∙ 1. 39. N.
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MISELAR
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MISENUM, or Misenus, in Ancient Geography, a promontory, port, and town in Campania, situated to the southwest of Baiae, in the Sinus Puteolanus. Here Augustus had a fleet, called Classis Misenensis, for guarding the Mare Inferum ; as he had another at Ravenna for protecting the Mare Superum. Upon this peninsula a vil...
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MISENUM
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MISER, a parsimonious person who is at the same time rich; or a wretch covetous to extremity, whom avarice has divested of all the charities of human nature, and rendered an enemy even to himself.
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MISER
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MISERICORDIA, in Law, is an arbitrary fine imposed on any person for an offence; it is called misericodia, because the amercement ought to be but small, and less than that required by Magna Charta. If a person be outrageously amerced in a court that is not one of record, the writ called moderata misericodia lies for mo...
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MISERICORDIA
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MISFEASANCE, in law-books, signifies a trespass.
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MISFEASANCE
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MISITRA, or Mistra, a city of Greece, in the Morea, one of the largest in the peninsula. It is situated upon a wide plain, watered by two streams, and said to have been raised out of the ruins of ancient Sparta, which was two miles from the modern city. The country around was fertile, but has been neglected; and the po...
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MISITRA
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MISNOMER, in Law, misnaming a person, or mistaking his name.
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MISNOMER
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MISPRISIONS, a term derived from the old French, mespris, a neglect or contempt, are, in the acceptation of English law, generally understood to be all such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon. It is said that a misprision is contained in every treason and felony whatsoever; a...
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MISPRISIONS
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MISSAL, the Roman Catholic book, cóntaining the several masses which are said on particular days. It is derived from the Latin word missa, which, in the ancient Christian church, signified every part of divine service.
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MISSAL
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MISSENDEN, a town of the county of Buckingham and hundred of Aylesbury, thirty-one miles from London. It is situated on the high road to Buckingham, and near to it is a mansion called Abbey House, built upon the site of a monastery of Black Nuns. The population amounted in 1801 to 1411, in 1811 to 1576, in 1821 to 1735...
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MISSENDEN
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MISSIO, amongst the Romans, was a full discharge given to a soldier after twenty years’ service, and it differed from the exauctoratio, which was a discharge from duty after seventeen years’ service. Every soldier had a right to claim his missio at the end of twenty years.
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MISSIO
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MISSION, in Theology, denotes a power or commission to preach the gospel. Jesus Christ gave his disciples their mission in these words, “Go and teach all nations.” The Catholics reproach the Protestants with this, that their ministers have no mission, as not being authorized in the exercise of their ministry, either by...
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MISSION
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MISSISSIPPI, one of the United States of North America, is situated between 88° 30 ’ and 91 β 50° of west longitude, and 30° 8 ’ and 35° of north latitude. It is bounded on the north by Tennessee, on the south by the Gulf of Mexicoand part of Louisiana, on the east by Alabama, and on the west by Louisiana and the River...
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MISSISSIPPI
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MISSOURI, one of the United States of North America, is situated between 88° 17' and 94° 30 ’ of west longitude, and 36° and 40° 30' of north latitude. It is 270 miles in length by 220 in breadth, and contains an area of about 60,000 square miles. I fis bounded on the north and west by the Missouri territory; on the ea...
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MISSOURI
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MISTERBIANCO, a town of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples and the province of Demone, 118 miles from Palermo. It stands upon Mount Aetna, and is the Monasterium Album of Pirro. The situation is healthy, and the inhabitants are 3500. It is surrounded with basaltic rocks and warm baths.
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MISTERBIANCO
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MISTRETTA, a parliamentary city of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples and province of Demone, seventy-eight miles from Palermo. It stands on the north shore, near the mouth of the river Nebroden, on an elevated and healthy situation. It contains 8000 inhabitants.
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MISTRETTA
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MITCHAM, a village of the county of Surrey, in the hundred of Wallington, seven miles from London. It is pleasantly situated on the river Wandle, a stream remarkable lor its trouts, and for the number of mills turned by it within a short distance. The population amounted in 1801 to 3466, in 1811 to 4175, in 1821 to 445...
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MITCHAM
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MITCHELSTOWN, a post-town of Ireland, in the county of Cork, 132 miles south-west from Dublin. It is built on the site of an ancient town called Brighgobban, said to have been founded by a saint of whom a relic was long preserved. Lord Baron Kingston here founded an establishment called the College, where a number of d...
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MITCHELSTOWN
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MITE, a small piece of money mentioned in St Luke’s Gospel (xii. 59, and xxi. 2). In the Greek it is χοδgαντης, quadrans, or a quarter of the Roman denarius ; so that the mite was worth about seven farthings, or nearly twopence of our money. [7:15:306]
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MITE
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MITHRAS, Feasts of, in Antiquity, were celebrated amongst the Romans in honour of Mithras or the Sun. The most ancient instance of this amongst the Romans occurs in an inscription dated in the third consulate of Trajan, or about the year of our era 101. This is the dedication of an altar to the Sun under the name of Mi...
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MITHRAS
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MITHRAS, or Mithra, a god of Persia and Chaldaea, supposed to be the Sun, and whose worship was introduced at Rome. He is generally represented as a young man, whose head is covered with a turban after the manner of the Persians; and he supports his knee upon a bull lying on the ground, one of the horns of which he hol...
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MITHRAS
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MITHRIDATES, the name of several kings of Pontus. Mithridates, surnamed Eupator, and also the Great, succeeded to the throne at the age of eleven, about 123 years before the Christian era. The beginning of his reign was marked by ambition, cruelty, and artifice. He murdered his own mother, who had been left by his fat...
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MITHRIDATES
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MITRA was a cap or covering for the head, worn by the Roman ladies, and sometimes by the men; but it was looked upon as a mark of effeminacy in the latter, especially when it was tied upon their heads.
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MITRA
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MITRE, a sacerdotal ornament worn on the head by bishops and certain abbots upon solemn occasions, being a sort of high cap, pointed and cleft at top. The high priest amongst the Jews wore a mitre or bonnet upon his head; and the inferior priests of the same nation had likewise their mitres, but in what respect they di...
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MITRE
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MITTAU, a city of the province of Courland, in European Russia, and the capital of a circle of the same name. It is in a marshy situation, at the junction of the river Drive with the Aa. It was once fortified, but the walls have gone to decay. The ancient palace of the dukes of Courland has been repaired for an imperia...
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MITTAU
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MITTIMUS, as generally used, has two significations. First, it signifies a writ for removing or transferring of records from one court to another. Secondly, it signifies a precept or command in writing, under the hand and seal of a justice of the peace, directed to the gaoler or keeper of some prison, for the receiving...
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MITTIMUS
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MITWEIDA, a city of the kingdom of Saxony, in the circle of Leipsig, and bailiwick of Rochlitz. It stands on the river Ztchopau, and is one of the most considerable places in Germany for the manufacturing of cotton goods. It contains 508 houses, and 3860 inhabitants.
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MITWEIDA
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MITYLENE, or Mvtelene, in Ancient Geography, a celebrated, powerful, and affluent city, the capital of the island of Lesbos. It received its name from Mitylene, the daughter of Macareus, a king of the country. It is greatly commended by the ancients for the stateliness of its buildings and the fertility of its soil; bu...
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MITYLENE
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MIXTURE, a compound or assemblage of several different bodies in the same mass. Chemical mixture is attended with many phenomena which are never observed in simple mixtures; such as heat, effervescence, &c. To chemical mixture belong the union of acids and alkalies, the amalgamation of metals, the solution of gums, &c....
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MIXTURE
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MIZEN, or Mizzen, in nautical language, is a particular mast or sail. The mizen-mast stands in the sternmost part of the ship. In some great ships there are two of these, in which case that next the main-mast is called the main-mizen, and that next the poop the bonaventure mizen.
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MIZEN
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MIZRAIM, or Misraim, the dual name of Egypt, employed in Scripture to denote the upper and lower divisions of that country. It sometimes occurs in the singular, Mazor (2 Kings, xix. Isaiah, xix. Micah, vii.).
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MIZRAIM
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M‘NEILL,^[1. In strict accordance with the poet’s usual orthography of his name, this article ought to have been placed under Μαc, but unavoidable circumstances rendered this impracticable. ] Hector, a distinguished Scottish poet, born on the 22d of October 1746, at Rosebank, on the Esk, and almost amongst the classic ...
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M‘NEILL
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MNEMONICS. Some ancient writers speak of an artificial memory, and lay down rules for attaining it. Simonides the poet is said first to have made this discovery, or at least to have occasioned its being made. The story told of him is this. Being once at a feast, he recited a poem which he had composed in honour of the ...
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MNEMONICS
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MNEMOSYNE, in fabulous history, a daughter of Coelus and Terra, who married Jupiter, by whom she had the nine Muses. The word mnemosyne signifies memory ; and therefore the poets have rightly called Memory the mother of the Muses, because it is to that mental endowment that mankind are indebted for their progress in sc...
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MNEMOSYNE
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MOA Isle, in the Eastern Seas, is situated off the eastern extremity of Timor, and intersected by the 128th degree of east longitude. Lat. 8. 20. S.
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MOA
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MOAB, in Ancient Geography, a country of Arabia Petraea, so called from Moab the son of Lot, to whose posterity this country had been allotted by divine appointment (Deut. xi. 9). It was originally occupied by the Emim, [7:15:310]a race of giants extirpated by the Moabites. Moab anciently lay to the south of Ammon, bef...
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MOAB
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MOAT, Ditch, or Fosse, in Fortification, a deep trench dug round the rampart of a fortified place, to prevent surprises. See Fortification.
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MOAT
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MOATAZALITES, or Separatists, a religious sect amongst the Turks, who deny all forms and qualities in the Divine Being, and divest God of his attributes. Amongst the Turkish divines two opinions are entertained concerning God. The first admits metaphysical forms or attributes, as, that God has wisdom, by which he is w...
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MOBILE, a city, port of entry, and capital of Mobile county, in Alabama, one of the United States of North America. It is situated on the west side of Mobile River, at its entrance into the bay, thirty miles north of Mobile Point, which is upon the east side of the mouth of the bay, fifty-miles west by north from Pensa...
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MOBILE
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MOCHA, one of the principal ports of the Red Sea, and the chief city of the province of Yemen, in Arabia. It has a handsome appearance from the sea, all its buildings being white-washed, and several of its minarets overtopping the other buildings, whilst some of the tombs, which, as in many eastern cities, are handsome...
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MOCHA
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MOCKWANPORE, a district of Hindustan, situated principally between the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth degrees of north latitude, and bounded on the south by Bettiah and Tirhoot in Bahar. It is a fertile valley, and produces abundance of rice. The capital is of the same name; it is situated on a hill, surrounded by a ...
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MOCKWANPORE
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MODAIN, Ul, a village of Irak Arabi, which occupies the site of Seleucia and Ctesiphon, on the eastern bank of the Euphrates. Little else remains excepting ruins of those once magnificent cities. It is twenty miles south-east of Bagdad.
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MODAIN
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MODANIA, a town of Asia Minor, situated on a gulf of the same name, on the Sea of Marmora. It was anciently called Myrlea and Apamea, the ruins of which are still visible. It is fifteen miles north-west of Bursa.
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MODANIA
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MODBURY, a town in the county of Devon and hundred of Ermington, 210 miles from London. It has some few cloth manufactories, and a good market on Thursday. It is celebrated for its white ale. The population amounted in 1801 to 1813, in 1811 to 1890, in 1821 to 2194, and in 1831 to 2116.
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MODBURY
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MODE, a word of the same general import with manner, is used as a technical term in grammar, metaphysics, and music. See the articles on these subjects.
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MODE
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MODEL, in a general sense, signifies an original pattern, proposed for any one to copy or imitate. This word is particularly used, in building, to signify an artificial pattern made in wood, stone, plaster, or other matter, with all its parts and proportions, being intended for the better conducting and executing some...
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MODEL
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MODENA, an independent sovereign state in the north of Italy, the chief of which bears the title of his Royal Highness the Duke of Modena, Reggio, Mirandola, Massa, and Carrara, and is descended from a branch of the Austrian family. This sovereign is descended from the house of Este, one of the most ancient families in...
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MODENA
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MODERATOR, in the schools, the person who presides at a dispute, or in a public assembly. Thus the president of the annual assembly of the church of Scotland is styled moderator. Modern, or Modor, a city of the circle of Presburg, in the Austrian kingdom of Hungary. It stands at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, an...
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MODERATOR
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MODESTY, in Ethics, is sometimes used to denote humility, and sometimes to express chastity or purity of sentiments and manners. The idea of modesty is not a chimera, a popular prejudice, or an illusion arising from laws and education. Nature, which speaks the same language to all men, has, with the unanimous consent o...
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MODESTY
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MODICA, a city of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples, in the province of Noto, 120 miles from Palermo. It is the capital of a district of the same name, which extends over 120,000 square miles, and contains 80,000 inhabitants, who are said to be the most active and wealthy of any of the inhabitants of Sicil...
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MODICA
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MODILLIONS, in Architecture, ornaments in the corniche of the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite columns.
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MODILLIONS
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MODIUS, a Roman dry measure for all sorts of grain, containing thirty-two heminae, or sixteen sextarii, or one third of the amphora, amounting to an English peck. See Measure.
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MODIUS
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MODULATION, the art of forming any thing to a certain proportion. Modulation, in Music, derived from the Latin modulari. This word, in our language, is susceptible of several different significations. It frequently means no more than an air, or a number of musical sounds properly connected and arranged. Thus it answer...
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MODULATION
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MODULE, in Architecture, a certain measure, or dimension, taken at pleasure, for regulating the proportions of columns, and the symmetry or disposition of the whole building. Architects generally choose the semidiameter of the bottom of the column for their module, and this they subdivide into parts or minutes.
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MODULE
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MOEN, or Moenhoe, an island in the Baltic Sea, part of the kingdom of Denmark. It is separated by a narrow strait on the north from Zealand, and by one still narrower on the west from Falster. It extends over ninety-five square miles, or about 61,000 acres, and contains one town and three villages, with 2500 inhabitant...
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MOEN
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MOFFAT, a small well-built town, and a celebrated watering-place, of Scotland, in the county of Dumfries. It is situated on a beautiful eminence near the junction of the Annan and Moffat waters, and is on all sides except the south encompassed by hills of various elevation. In the neighbourhood, especially to the north...
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MOFFAT
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MOGADORE, or Mogodore, but by the natives called Suera or Saweera, is a considerable sea-port of Morocco, [7:15:315]in the province of Shedma. This town, which was built by Sidi Mohammed in 1760, stands upon a sandy beach forming a peninsula, the foundation of which is rocky, and is separated from the cultivated countr...
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MOGADORE
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MOGNANO, a town of the kingdom of Naples, in the province Terra di Lavoro, containing 5766 inhabitants.
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MOGNANO
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MOGOO, a seaport of Laristan, in Persia, which has one of the most secure roadsteads in the Persian Gulf. It is formed by Cape Bostana to the eastward, and by Point Certes to the west. It is capable of containing the largest fleets, and the entrances are about ten miles asunder. It is eighty miles south of Lar.
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MOGOO
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MOGULS, a celebrated nation of Asia, whose conquests in former times were the most rapid and extensive of any people recorded in history. They themselves deduce their origin from Japhet, or, as they call him, Japhis, the son of Noah. His son Turk was, according to them, the first king, or khan, of those nations who are...
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MOGULS
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MOHAIR, in commerce, the hair of a particular kind of goat frequent about Angora, in Turkey, the inhabitants of which are all employed in the manufacture of carablets made of this material. Some give the name of mohair to the camblets or stuffs made of this hair, and of which there are two kinds; the one smooth and pl...
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MOHAIR
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MOHAWK, a large branch of the Hudson, or North River, of the state of New York, in North America. It rises in the north-east part of Oneyda county, about twenty miles north of Rome, to which place it runs in nearly a south direction, and then turns eastward towards the Hudson, which it enters by several mouths between ...
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MOHAWK
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MOHILEW, a province of the European Russian empire. It is situated in N. lat. from 51. 58. to 55. 13., and in E. long, from 28. 47. to 32. 53., and is bounded on the north by Witepsk, on the north-east by Smolensk, on the southeast and south by Tschernigow, and on the west by Minsk. It contains 45,008 square worsts, or...
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MOHILEW
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MOHURBUNGE, a district of Orissa, in the province of Hindustan, situated between the 21st and 33d degrees of N. lat. It is a hilly, unfertile district, and derives its revenues chiefly from the Hindu pilgrims who visit the temple of Juggernaut.
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MOHURBUNGE
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MOIDORE, a Portuguese gold coin, of the value of L.l. 7s. sterling.
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MOIDORE
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MOIRA, a post-town of Ireland, in the county of Down, ninety miles north from Dublin. It has a handsome church, two dissenting meeting-houses, and a free school. Moira Castle is situated in the vicinity of the town. Long. 6. 6. W. Lat. 54. 27. N.
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MOIRA
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MOISSAC, an arrondissement of the department of the Tarn and the Garonne, in France, 372 square miles in extent. It comprehends six cantons, which are divided into sixty-seven communes, with a population of 61,800 persons. The capital is the city of the same name, situated in a fertile district, through which flows the...
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44 8' N 1 17' E
MOISSAC
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MOIVRE, Abraham de, a very learned mathematician, was born in the year 1667, at Vitry in Champagne, in France, where his father was a surgeon. After the revocation of the edict of Nantes, he proceeded to England. Before he left France, he had commenced the study of the mathematics; and having perfected himself in that ...
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MOIVRE
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MOLA, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in the province of Bari. It stands on the sea-shore, but has no good haven. It contains 7664 inhabitants, many of whom are occupied in the fisheries, and others in the cultivation of vines and olive trees. Mola Salsa, in Antiquity, was barley parched, and afterwards ground to mea...
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MOLA
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MOLD, or Mould, a town of the county of Flint, in North Wales, in the hundred of its own name, 207 miles from London. It consists of one long and wide street, and has a market on Saturday. It is an ancient borough, and, in conjunction with Rhyddlan, Overton, Caerwis, Caergwr-ley, St Asaph, and Holywell, returns one mem...
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MOLD
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MOLDAVIA, a principality nominally under the Turkish government. It was the ancient Transalpine Dacia, and received the name it now bears in the fourteenth century, from the principal river which drains it. It extends in east longitude from 25. 13. to 28. 26., and in north latitude from 45. 24. to 48. 17., occupying 17...
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MOLDAVIA
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MOLFETTA, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in the province of Bari. It is situated on the sea-shore, and has a harbour, which is fit only for the reception of small vessels, but from it an extensive fishery is carried on. It is a place of various manufactures, each upon a small scale. The most considerable is the refin...
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MOLFETTA
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MOLIERE, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the most celebrated comic writer of France, was born at Paris on the 15th of January 1622. He was the son of Jean Poquelin, a merchant-upholsterer, and of Marie Cressé, whose father followed the same calling. Being designed by his parents to succeed them in their business, he was early ...
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MOLIERE
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MOLINISTS, in ecclesiastical history, a sect in the Roman Catholic church, who follow the doctrine and sentiments of the Jesuit Molina, respecting sufficient and efficacious grace. He taught that the operations of divine grace were entirely consistent with the freedom of human will; and he introduced a new kind of hypo...
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MOLINISTS
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MOLINOSISTS, a sect amongst the Roman Catholics who adhere to the doctrine of Molinos. These are the same with those otherwise called Quietests, whose chief principle is, that men ought to annihilate themselves in order to be united to God, and afterwards remain in quietness of mind, without being troubled for what sha...
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MOLINOSISTS
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MOLISE, a province of the kingdom of Naples, which extends in east longitude from 14. 7. to 15. 5., and in north latitude from 4L 18. to 41. 51., being 1261 square miles in extent. It is divided from the province of Terra di Lavoro by the snowy mountains of Matese, the highest chain of the Apennines, whence the princip...
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MOLISE
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MOLITERNO, a city of Naples, in the province of Principato Citeriore. It is situated between, two branches of the river Maglio, on an elevation, with a suburb extending into the valley of Diana. It contains 5176 inhabitants. [7:15:324]
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MOLITERNO
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MOLLUSCA. The Molluscous animals to which our attention is to be directed in this article, formed, for a long period, two distinct objects of study. The naked species were considered as constituting a particular group, to which the term Mollusea was in a great measure restricted; whilst the shelly species attracted a ...
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MOLLUSCA
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MOLOCH, a false god of the Ammonites, who dedicated their children to him, by making them pass through the fire, as the Scriptures express it. There are various opinions concerning this method of consecration. Some think that the children leaped over a fire sacred to Moloch; others are of opinion that they passed betwe...
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MOLOCH
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MOLOSSES, Molasses, or Mêlasses, the gross fluid matter of sugar remaining after refining, and which no boiling will bring to a consistence more solid than that of syrup. Properly, molasses are only the sediment of one kind of sugar called Chypre, or brown sugar, which is the refuse of other sugars, and cannot be white...
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MOLOSSES
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MOLOSSI, a people of Epirus, who inhabited that part of the country which was called Molossia, from Molossus, a son of Pyrrhus and Andromache, the king of the country. Molossia had the Bay of Ambracia as its boundary on the south, and the country of the Perrhaebeans on the east. The dogs of this country were famous, an...
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MOLOSSI
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MOLTON, South, a town of the county of Devon, in the hundred of its own name, 179 miles from London. It stands on the river Mole or Mould, and has some trade in making serges, shalloons, and other woollens. It is an ancient corporation, and formerly sent two members to parliament. It has a well-supplied market, which i...
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MOLTON
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MOLUCCA ISLES. These islands were formerly understood to signify all the islands situated to the east of the Molucca passage, in longitude 126° east, particularly those of Gilolo; but in general the term has been restricted to the Spice Islands, namely, Amboyna, Banda, Ceram, Ternate, Tidore, and Batchian. These island...
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MOLUCCA ISLES