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Show MO M O 2 d t w l w l n e t o l N erate 3 an- no t ie an no en re e 1. La is grac y n c tique h‘c miodifies his firft fevere de o t r d m t w th e o i er f di c f e ew li N an t 4 ie an th o m S T'l he k'cencr edge of battle to rf:%ite that have laboufed in natural ma lorn writers o o ck, have noted a fympathy between the fun an Bacon ertain herbs The glorious parallels then downward brin To modern wonders, and to Britain's king. Prior 2. I vulgar Shakefpeare mean Trifles, fuch as we prefent modern friends withal Shake[peare The juftic With eves fevere and beard of formal cut Full of wife faws and modern inftances. Shakefpeare We have our philofophical perfons to mak modern and familiar things {upernatural and caufe.S/'J.'I/n:f)u‘tirf lefs Thofe who have live Mo peErRNs. 7. / lately, oppoled to the ancients There are moderns who, with a flight variation Boyle on Colours adopt the opinion of Plato . Some by old words to fame have made pretence Ancients in phrafe mere moderns in their fenfe Pope De Mo 'pERNTSM. 7. /. [from modern. viation from the ancient and claffica A word invented by Savifz manner Scribblers fend us over their trafh in profe an verfe, with abominable curtailings and quaint 7zoSawift dernifms T Mo DERNISE. @. a. [from modern. To adapt ancient compofitions to modern perfons or things; to change ancient to modern language Mo DERNNESS. #. /. [from moedern.] Novelty MO'DEST. adj. [modefie, Fr. modeftus Lat. 1. Not arrogant; not prefumptuous; no boaftful ; bafhful 2. Not impudent Young. not forward Refolve me with all modeff hafte, which wa Thou might'ft deferve, or they impofe this ufage Shakefp Her face, as inanymph, difplay' A fair fierce boy, or in a boy betray' Dryden The blufhing beauties of a modef} maid 3. Not loofe; not unchafte Mrs. Ford, the honeft woman the modeft wife the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool t Shake[peare her hufband 4. Not exceflive; not extreme; moderate within a mean There appears much joy in him, even fo muc that joy could not fhew itfelf modeft enough withou Shake[peare 2 badge of bitternefs During the laft four years, by a modef} computation, there have been brought into Breft above fi Addifon millions fterling in bullion Mo DESTLY. adv. [from modef. i. Not arrogantly; not prefumptuouily 1 may modeftly conclude, that whatever error there may be in this play, there are mot thof which have been objeéted to it. Dryden's Sébaflian Firft he modefly conjeltures His pupil might be tir'd with Jectures Which help'd to mortify his pride Yet gave him not the heart to chide Tho learn'd well-bred ; an fincere Modeftly bold, and humanly fevere Saift tho' well-bred Pope 2. Not impudently; not forwardly; wit refpe& I, your glafs Will yodefily difcover to yourfel "That of yourfelf, which yet you know not of 2. Not impudence; not forwardnefs: as bis petition awas urged with modefty 3. Moderation ; decency A lord will hear you play But I am doubtful of your modefics Left over-eying of his odd behaviour You break into fome merry paflion 4 taken a mof Shake[peare Shakzfpeare becoming fo care Mo DESTY-PIECE. 7. / A narrow lace which runs along the upper part o the fays before, being a part of the tucker, is callAddifon ed the modefty-piece z / [Latin. por Smal tion; pittance What modicum of wit he utters have ears thus long his evafion Shakefp. Troilus and Creffida Dryden difficult to conceiv diftiné, vifible image in the uniform, invariabl effence of God, than in varioufly modifiable matter but the manner how I fee either fill efcapes m Locke comprehenfion Mop1'ricaBLE. adj. [from modify.] Diverfifiable by various modes MobpiricA TION. 2. /. [modification, Fr. The aét of modifying any thing, o giving it new accidental differences o external qualities or mode The chief of all figns is human voice, and th feveral modifications thereof by the organs of fpeech the letters of the alphabet, formed by the motion Holder of the mouth The phznomena of colours in refradted or refle€ted light, are not caufed by new medifications o the light varioufly imprefled, according to the various terminations of the light and fhadow Newwton If thefe powers of ‘cogitation, volition and fenfaare neither inherent i acquirable to matter by an of it, it neceffarily follow fome cogitative fubftance bitant within us, which w matter as fuch no motion and medificatio that they proceed fro fome incorporeal inhacall fpirit Bentley 70 Mo'DIFY. @. a. [modifier, French. 1. To change the external qualities or accidents of any thing ; to (hape Yet there is that propert in all letters, of apt nefs to be conjoined in fyllables and words throug the voluble motions of the organs, that they modify and difcriminate the voice without appearin to difcontinue it Holder The middle parts of the broad beam of whit light which fell upon the paper, did, without an confin of fhado to modif it, becom 1 L‘Efl'_"fga Modillons "i M archite coloure all over with one uniform colour, the colour bein always the fame in the middie of the paper as at th edges WNesoren The modillons or dentelli make a noble flmf:u th/:ir graceful proje&ions Mo p1su. adj. [from mode.] Fafbionab formed according to the reigning o tom _}iu: you, perhaps, expeét a modifh fealt With am'rous fongs, and wanton dances gracd 2 Hypocrify a is very differen modiffy hypocrit than he reall Dry the fafhionableend of th from hypocrify in the city;t endeavours to appeat more vt is, the other Kind of hypi more vistuous Mo pisuvry thionably Addifon's Sy adv [from madifh.] Lk f z. f. [from modifp.] fe&ation of the fathion €nces tion / Latin. difply Mo 'visuNESs Mopi1ri aBLE. adj. [from modify.] Tha may be diverfified by accideatal differbe mor 2 Young children fhould not be much peplr about putting off their hats, and making leg Though hard 'their fate A cruife of water, and an ear of corn Yet till they grudg'd that modicunz Mobpi'LroN terva between them, o ve du relatin the whole fabrick. SR rela}t;on‘ his ‘amorous expreflions go no farther than virtu Dryden may allow Talk not to a lady in a way that moedefly will no Clariffa permit her to anfwer Mo'picum matter, there is hazard on the yielding % d:l"ll‘h the pillar; for, as the proportion of ap edi;m'?f general depends on the.diameter of the pile r‘t fize al".(li) number}‘ of the modillons, as alfy t'b: ? By thefe exterior fhews ? But fhe is more Shake[peare Her bluth is guiltinefs, not modefty Of the general charaéter of women, which i he ha o MAfote'nr 1alely.this diw.fcanti| ng To exteringrerd and mod the larmier or drip : this part muft be dijfi' ed fl'czx'n the great model,which is the dia::g" '".' ‘Would you not fwear you that fee her, that fhe were a maid modefty which are often fet under t}::'coi;fxt}i;;g b pofite orflcrs, and ferve to fupport the pro?:; Chatftity; purity of manrers Al They cannot, with modefly, think to have found out abfolutely the beft which the wit of men ma Hooker devife It appeats t Of boafting more than ofa tomb afraid A foldier fhould be 7odeff as a maid 7. f Lat. 1. Not arrogance; not prefumptuoufnefs com mon DEsSTY M [modeftie Fr. modefias 7o Mo DULATE. w. a. [modubr, Liti To form found to a certain key,a f certain notes Th weafan nofe teeth lips palate, jaw, tn lungs, mufcles of the cheft, diaphrage and mufcles of the belly, all ferve to make ot Greay's O Jate the found asto voic he modulat f perfo an Coul ceive {o many Echo propagates aroun Each charm of modulated found z. / Mopura'rioN modulal [fro modulation, French. 1. The a& of forming any thing t0 tai proportion mmeralsh" origina fimpl th o P hcpnmgbe orflflc:‘f;k tw o matte th fixe rightl not bee thedi b an together mixe bein kind Var0H matte tha o proportion and medulatics d all di('fcrer}:}t}ok:fi diverfified, have been reput The fpeech, as it is a fou ; y modulation of the air, has mo otis uttered by the tongue,_het\ls];r;m but as cognation wit firument to mana flell HE i cloathe foul huma an rer vifibl i powers an h eenoat Tung . melodf 2. Sound modulated ;_harmon)",nmm frefh;‘mfi, th fongfters Innumerou "Their modulations mix, mellifluous y - f / u a m / Mo puLaro wh forms found to a certal tuner; that w men Th tongu is the gran inftr t i{hmennfl ng: m ou al o g ju u th fa th artful modulato Derb* of our voice, a l d r [ /# M a empty reprefentation ; & fervant of maftication ternal form 2 M |