GLOSSARY.
MORTAL, 1 A. c; 1 Tr. c, liable to death and subject to infirmity; Lat. mortalis( Vulg.), from mors, death.
MORTIFY, Inn. D. c; Circum. c, to kill, destroy; Lat. mortificare ( Vulg.).
MOST, XVI., greatest, the most number of the people."
The most champion of the world. King Arthur( W B. W.). MOTE, 4 Tr. g, a particle of dust; O.E. mot.
Brothir, suffre I schal do out a mote fro thin ise. Wyclif. As thik as motis in the sonne beem. Chaucer, C. T. 6450. MOTIONS, 1 L. c, promptings, influences, inspirations; Lat. motio, a moving.
MOUTHS, Ps. 35. 15,' making mouths at me,' a printer's correction for making mowes;' M.E. moe, an ill- natured thrusting out of the lips, a grimace; O. Fr. moue; O. Dutch mouwe, the protruded under lip.
And otherwhiles with bitter mockes and mowes
He would him scorne.
Spenser, F. Q. vi. 7. 49. MOVE, IX., to stir, impel; Lat.
movere.
MUCH, 11., very,' much agreeable.' 1 confess me much guilty. Shaks. As You, i. 2. 196. MULTITUDE, Ps. 5. 7,' multitude of thy mercy,' greatness; Lat. multitudo( Vulg.).
MUSE, Ps. 143. 5, to meditate; O.Fr. muser, to sniff as a dog does in hunting, from* muse( whence museau), a muzzle, nose of an animal; Lat. morsum. MUSTER UP, 1., to display so as to make a fair show; M. E. moustre; O.Fr. moustre, a muster, a show, from moustrer; Lat. monstrare, to show. MYSTERY, XII.,' the mystery of thy holy Incarnation;' 3 A. c,' stewards of thy mysteries xv., those holy mysteries;' xx., Matrimony to such an excellent mystery.' The usual Scriptural meaning of the word mystery' is a spiritual truth hidden once but now revealed to Christ's servants;' cp.
3 A. e, stewards of the mysteries of God.' The term is particularly applied to the Holy Communion as a sacred rite, the mysterious channel of spiritual grace. Matrimony is a mystery as being a type of the relation between Christ and His Church; see Eph. 5. 32. Lat. mysterium( Vulg.)= Gk. μυστήριον, in classic writers a secret rite in which only the initiated could join, from w to close the eyes or mouth. MYSTICAL, All S. c,' the mystical body of thy Son,' i.e. the Church of Christ; so XV.; XVI.,' sanctify this water to the mystical washing away of sin;' xx.,' the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and His Church.' The word is determined by the sense of' mystery,' and seems in all these passages to mean supernatural, spiritual. Cp. Lat. mysticus: Gk. uvoTKÓS, secret, connected with the mysteries. See above.
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NAME, Ps. 7. 18,' the Name of the Lord.' The Name of Jehovah' in Scripture is used to signify the Nature of God as revealed by Himself to men, which is all that we can know of Him.
NATIVITY, XII., birth; Lat. nativitas( Vulg.).
NAUGHTY, xv., bad, wicked, good for nothing.
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shaks. Merch. v. 91. NETHER- HOUSE, XXIX.( Ratification), the Lower House of Convocation; O.E. neodor, lower. NETHERMOST, Ps. 86. 13, lowest ( R.V.).
The nethermost gallerie was five cubites broad. Geneva, 1 Kings 6. 6. NEW MAN, xvI.; 19 Tr. e, the new life= ὁ καινὸς ἄνθρωπος.
NEW- FANGLED, III., fond of what is new; M.E. newe- fangel, ready to seize what is new; cp. O.E. fangol, ready to seize.
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So newefangel be they of their meat. Chaucer, 10932.