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Show MA 2. Whimfey low word MA caprice Taffata phrafes od fancy Have blown me full of maggot oftentatio I do forfwear them Henceforth my wooing mind fhall be expref In rufiet yeas, and honeft ker{y noes. Shakefpeare To reconcile our late diffenters Our brethren though by other venters Unite them and their diff rent maggors As long and fhort fticks are in faggotse Hudibras She pricked his maggot, and touched him-in th tender pointj; then he broke out into a violen Arbuthuct Ma‘ccoTTiNESS. #. /. [from maggorty. The ftate of abounding with maggots Ma'ccorry. adj. [from maggoet. 1. Full of maggots 2. Capricious ; whimfical A low word preten to wor ou nea fchemc. o thoughts with a maggorty unfettled head, is as ridiculous as to thin to write ftrai in a jumblin coach Norris Alting or performed by fecret and invifibl powers, either of nature, or the agency o {pirits Ma"cicaL adj. [from magick. T'll humbly fignify what in his name ‘That magical word of war, we have effeéted. Shak They beheld unveiled the magical fhield of you Ariofto, which dazzled the beholders with too muc brightnefs; they can no longer hold up their arms Dyryden By the ufe of a looking-glafs, and certain attir made of cambrick, upon her head, fhe attained t an evil art and magical force in the motion of he eyes Tatler Ma'crcarry. adw. [from magical.] According to the rites of magick; by enchantment In the time of Valens, divers curious men, by th falling of a ring, magically prepared, judged that on Theodorus fhould fucceed in the empire. Camden MA'GICK. #. /. [magia, Latin. 1. The art of putting in ation the powe of fpirits goo an it was fuppofe ba fpirit wer that bot fubjet t magick ; yet magick was in genera held unlawful: forcery; enchantment She once being looft The noble ruin of her magick Antony Claps on his fea-wing. Shake[peare's Ant. and Cleo ‘Wha chatm wha magick force of all thefe motives ca over-rul th Rogers 2. 'The [ecret operations of natural powers ‘The writers of natural magick attribute much t the virtues that come from the parts of living creatures, as if they did infufe immaterial virtue int the part fevered Bacon Ma'cick. adj 1. Aling or doing by powers fuperio to the known power of nature; enchanted; necromantick Upon the corner of the moo ‘There hangs a vap'rous drop profound L'l catch it ere it come to ground clean.sh data import.tsv out README And that diftill'd by magick flight Shall raife fuch artificial {prights As by the firength of their illufion Shall draw him on to his confufion Shakefpeare Like caftles built by magick art in air - That vanifh at approach, fuch thoughts appear Granville 2. Done or produced by magick And the brute earth would lend her nerves, an thake ‘Till all thy magick ftru€tures rear'd fo high Weie fhatter'd into heaps magick a enchanter Some have difputed even againft magifiracy itfelf What black smagician conjures up this fiend Figures pedantical, thefe fummer flics paffion i On necromancer Three-pil'd hyperboles, {pruce affeétation T Maer'ciax, #. /. [magicus, Latin. fkille filken terms precife MA Liltos To ftop devoted charitable deeds Shake[p An old magician, that did leee Th' Hefperian fruit, and made the dragon flee Her potent charm do troubled fouls relieve And, where the lifts, makes calmeft fouls to grieve W aller There are millions of truths that a man is no concerned to know ; as whethe Roger Baco was a mathematician or a magician Locke MAGISTE RIAL adj Latin. 1. Such as fuits a mafter |[fro magifter King Charles He bids him attend as if he had the rod ove him; and ufes a magifferial anthority while he in ftructs him 2. Lofty defpotick arrogant Dryden proud infolent We are not magifferial in opinions, nor, diftator-like, obtrude our notions on any man Brown's Vulgar Errours Pretences go a great way with men that tak fair words and magifterial looks for current pay- ment L' Eftrange Thof govern me bein are but trepanned who are called t invefte reaved of power moc an betra whic the -wit authority is nothin elfe bu into a fplendi giflerial way of being ridiculous 3. Chemically prepared ner of a magiftery bu be t and sa Soutb after the man Of corals are chiefly prepared the powder groun upon a marble, and the magifterial falt, to goo purpofe in fome fevers: the tin€ture is no mor than a folution of the magifferial falt Grew MacisTe'R1aLLY, adv. [from magifferial.] -~ Arrogantly; with an air o authority A downright advice may be miftaken, as if i were {poken magifierially. Bacon's Adwice to Villiers Over their pots and pipes, they claim and engrofs all wholly to themfelves, magifierially cenfuring the wifdom of all antiquity, fcoffing a all piety, and new-modelling the world South MacisTE'RTIALNESS. 2. /. [from magifferial.] Haughtinefs ; airs ofa mafter Peremptorinefs is of two forts; the one a magiJrerialnefs in matters of opinion, the other a pofitivenefs in relating matters of fa&: in the one w impofe upon men's underftandings, in the othe on their faith Government of the Tongue Ma'G1sTERY n. [magifierium, Latin, Magiftery is a term made ufe of by chemifts t fignify fometimes a very fine powder, made by fo lution and precipitation as of bifmuth lead, &c and fometimes refin and refinous fubftances; a thofe of jalap, fcamony, &c. but the moft ge nuine acceptation is to exprefs that preparation o any body, wherein the whole, or moft part, is, b the addition of fomewhat, changed into a body o quite another kind; as when iron or copper i turned into cryftals of Mars or Venus Quincy Paracelfus extrateth the magiffery of wine, expofing it unto the extremity of cold; whereby th aqueous parts will freeze, but the fpirit be uncongealed in the centre Brown The magiftery of vegetables confifts but of th more foluble and coloured parts of the plants tha afford it Boyle Ma"cisTraCY 2. / {magiftratus Office or dignity of a magiftrate Lat, You fhare the world, her magiffracics, prietthoods Wealth Duelling is not only an ufurpation of the divin prerogative, but it is an infult upon 7 good government. and felicity, amongft you, friends B. Fonfon He had no other intention but to diffuade me from magiftracy, or undertaking the publick office of flate Erotsn Brac an Cl Ma"cisTrRALLY adv. [magifiralis, lo Latin.] Defpotically ; authoritatively magilterially What a prefumption is this for one, who wii not aliow liberty to others, to aflume to himfel fuch a licence to controul f firally 2 a # Hobbes MA'GISTRATE. n./. [magifiratus, Lat. A ma publickl rity5 a gavernor laws Such a government is paternal, not magifterial Atte r‘/.v//", invefte wit autho an executor of th ‘They chufe their magiffrate And fuch a one as he, who puts his fhall His popular fhall, againft a graver benc Than ever frown'd in Greece. Shakefpeare's Cafiol 1 treat here of thofe legal punifhments whic magifirates infli€t upon their difobedient fubjeéts Decay of Piety Macena"viTY. . [, [magnalia, Latin. A great thing; fomething above th common rate Not ufed Too greedy of magnalities, we make but favour able experiments concerning welcome truths Browwn MaceNaANI'MITY n. [ [magnanimiié French; magnanimus, Latin. Great nefs of mind foul bravery elevation "o With deadly hue, an armed corfe did lye In whofe dead face he read great magnaninity Let bu differentl caufes o unwonte Spenfer the aéts of the ancient Jews be but inweighed, from whofe magnanimity, moft extreme hazard, thofe ftrange an refolutions have grown, which, for al circumftances, no people under the roof of heave did ever hitherto match Hooker They had enough reveng'd, having reduc' Their foe to mifery beneath their fears The reft was magnanimity to remit If fome convenient ranfom was propos'd Mikor Exploding many things under the name of trifle is a very falfe proof either of wifdom or magnani- mity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame Swift Macwa'NiMovs. adj. [magnanimus, Lac. Great of mind; elevated in fentiment brave To give a kingdom hath been though Greater and nobler done Far more magnanimous and to lay dow than to affume Miltor In ftrengt All mortals I excell'd, and great in hopes With youthful courage and magnaninous thought Of birth from heaven foretold, and high exploits AL LVLiitort Magnanimovs induftry is a refolved affiduity an care, anfwerable to any weighty work. Greww's Cof Macna'NiMOUSLY, adv. [from magna nimous. Bravely; with greatnefs o mind A complete and generous education fits a ma ‘to perform juftly, fkilfully, and magr ofly, al the offices of peace and war Milton on BEducatiorn MA'GNET 2. / [magnes Latin. Th loadftone; the ftone that attrats iron Two magnets, licav'n and earth, allure to blifs The larger loadftone that, the neave o Dryden It may be reafonabie to afk, Whether - obeyin the magne be eflential to iron Locke Macene'ricaL a j [ r m gnet. MaenNE'TICK 1. Relating to the magnet Review this whole magnetick fcheme. Blacknare. 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