For feede them they will with greater affection, with more care and diligence, as loving them inwardly, and (as the proverbe saith) from their tender nailes, whereas milch nources and fostermothers carie not so kinde a hart unto their nourcelings. Holland's Plutarch, Morals, p. 4, 1. 23. Mincing, adj. (Is. iii. 16). This word happily expresses the meaning of the original, the root of which signifies to trip, or to walk with short steps like children. It is apparently derived from the A.-S. minsian or Lat. minuo, to make small. A mincing tripping pace, as the prophet doth note, argueth a proud and an unstable heart. Sandys, Serm. p. 137. Turn two mincing steps Into a manly stride. Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. III. 4. Mind, v. i. (Acts xx. 31). To intend, purpose. The Lorde had alreadie entred his iourney, and shewed euen plainly by his countenaūce, that he was bounde towardes Hierusalem as one that purposely mynded to bee in the waie against the occasion of his death should come. Udal's Erasmus, Luke, fol. 89 a. To mind, or purpose. In animo habere. Baret, Alvearie. We do not come as minding to content you. Shakespeare, Mid. N.'s Dr. v. I. Minded, pp. (Ruth i. 18; 2 Chr. xxiv. 4; Matt. i. 19). Inclined, determined; like the Greek Opovŵv. I have been minded many times to have been a friar, namely when I was sore sick and distressed. Latimer, Rem. p. 332. One minded like the weather, most unquietly. Shakespeare, K. Lear, III. 1. Minish, v. t. (Ex. v. 19; Ps. cvii. 39; Ps. xii. 1, Pr. Bk.). From Lat. minuere, to diminish, through the O. Fr.menuiser, which corresponds with the It. minuzzare. The compound diminish has now superseded it. In Chaucer we find menuse and amenuse in the same sense. Even in Wiclif's time menuse appears to have required explanation, either as a novelty or an archaism. The earlier version of John iii. 30, is; It bihoueth him for to wexe, forsoth me to be menusid, or maad lesse. Customable vsage of lyght wordes, dothe by lytle and lytle mynishe in the myndes both of the speakers and also of the hearers, the reuerence that is due to god. Erasmus, On the Ten Commandments, fol. 153a. Minister, sb. Like the Lat. minister, this word had several shades of meaning, from that of a simple attendant or servant to that of an officer of state or of religion. In the A. V. the first of these only occurs, while in our present usage the last two only have remained. Thus in Ex. xxiv. 13; Josh. i. 1, Joshua is called Moses' minister, while in Ex. xxxiii. 11; Num. xi. 28, the same Hebrew word is rendered servant, and in 2 K. iv. 43, servitor. In 1 K. x. 5, and 2 Chr. ix. 4, the same word occurs, and the rendering ministers suggests the modern idea of ministers of state A similar confusion is likely to arise in Luke iv. 20, where 'minister' simply denotes the attendant in the synagogue who had the charge of the sacred books. The word appears to have been introduced into our language by means of the translations of the Bible. I Be thou consentynge to thin aduersarie soon, the whijle thou art in the way with hym, lest perauenture thin aduersarie take thee to the domesman, and the domesman take thee to the mynystre, and thou be sente in to prisoun. Wiclif (1), Matt. v. 25. The modir of him seith to the mynystris, what euere thing he schal seie to zou, do ze. Id. John ii. 5. The eldeste (as I sayde) rulethe the familye. The wyfes bee ministers to theire husbandes, the children to theire parentes, and to bee shorte the yonger to theire elders. Sir T. More, Utopia, 62 b. Minister, v. t. (2 Cor. ix. 10). To supply, furnish; like Lat. ministrare. The people of the countrees there aboute hearyng of hys straight iustice & godly mynd, ministered to hym bothe vitailes & other necessaries. Hall, Hen. V. fol. 14 b. Misdeem, v.t. (Matt. i. c.). To misjudge, or judge wrongly, from mis- and démán, to deem, judge; connected with doom, judgment, sentence, doomsman, dempster or deemer, a judge. That taketh well and scorneth nought, Ne it misdeme in hir thought, Through malicious intention. Chaucer, House of Fame, prol. 92. Yet, being matcht with plaine antiquitie, Ye will them all but fayned showes esteeme, Which carry colours faire, that feeble eies misdeeme. Spenser, F. Q. VI. prol. § 4. Miserably, adv. (Matt. xxi. 41). Used with an active verb. The Kentishmen, by casting of fire, did cruellie burne Moll the brother of Cedwall king of the West Saxons, and twelue of his knightes with him: wherewith Cedwall being mooued to furie, did miserablie harrie and spoile all Kent, so that by the space of sixe yeere, there was no king in that countrey. Stow, Annals, p. 68. Mislike, v. t. (Trans. to the Reader). To dislike, which is more commonly used. We have cause greatly to mislike of too poynts in your proceding there. Leycester Correspondence, p. 242. Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. II. I. My speech and what is done, tell him he has Id. Ant. and Cl. III. 13. Mite, sb. (Mark xii. 42). A very small coin: Fr. mite, from Lat. minutum. In Suffolk it was used for a halffarthing. Thomas, that jape is not worth a myte. Chaucer, Sompnoures Tale, 7543. Myne hoste ye haue money for the purpose, see to this man at my cost and charge. That if ye shall bestowe any thyng aboue this summe that I have deliuered you, ye for your parte shall not bee a loser of a myte by it. Udal's Erasmus, Luke, fol. 93 a. Mock, sb. (Prov. xiv. 9). A taunt, jeer. To make a mock' is 'to mock.' One Hyperbolus...of who Thucydides maketh mention, as of a naughty wicked ma, whose tongue was a fit instrument to deliuer matter to all the comicall poets of that time, to powre out all their taunts and mocks against them. North's Plutarch, Alcib. p. 215. Besides, it were a mock Apt to be render'd, for some one to say 'Break up the senate till another time, When Cæsar's wife shall meet with better dreams.' Shakespeare, Jul. Cæs. II. 2. Mock, v. t. (Judg. xvi. 10; Matt. ii. 16). To scorn, ridicule, and hence to delude; Fr. moquer, connected with the Gr. μώκος and μωκάομαι. He disdayning to bee mocked & deluded of his money, with his wyfe and family, fled into England. Hall, Hen. IV. fol. 17a. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, Shakespeare, Ant. and Cl. IV. 14. Mocking, sb. (Ez. xxii. 4; Heb. xi. 36). Mockery. They are worse fools to purchase mocking so. Shakespeare, Love's L. L. v. 2. It is a pretty mocking of the life. Id. Tim. of Ath. I. 1. Mockingstock, sb. (2 Macc. vii. 7). An object of scorn. I would have you to consider well the causes wherefore they were cast away from God and were made a mockingstock unto the whole world. Latimer, Rem. p. 49. To be a mocking stocke to one... Ludibrio esse alicui. Baret, Alvearie, s. v. In Udal's Erasmus, Luke, fol. 181 b, we find 'talkyng stocke.' Moe, adj. (Ex. i. 9; Num. xxii. 15, xxxii. 54; Deut. i. II). In the edition of 1611, 'moe' is the comparative of ‘many,' and is altered to 'more' in the later editions. It does not seem to have been used in the A.V. for the adverb. For elles had I dweld with Theseus I-fetered in his prisoun for evere moo. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1231. Moe things like men! Eat, Timon, and abhor them. Mollify, .t. (Is. i. 6). From Lat. mollifico, to soften; an old medical term. All tumors and hard swellings, which had need to be mollified, are made soft and brought downe most effectually with goose grease, or the fat of a swan. Holland's Pliny, xxx. 12. Molten, pp. (Ex. xxxii. 4; Job xxviii. 2; Mic. i. 4). The old strong form of the past participle of the verb 'to melt,' now almost obsolete. [See HOLPEN.] In Shakespeare (1 Hen. IV. v. 3), Falstaff says, I am as hot as molten lead and as heavy too. Monarchy, sb. Sole rule. There is a curious usage of this word (as pointed out by Mr Booker), in the margin |