maunna, manna

[Sc. maun =must, and na=not.] Must not. ( Scotch.) "Deacon, fo'k maunna look ower nicely at what king's head's on't."-Scott: Guy Manner ing, ch. xxxii. mâu-rěsque' (que as k), a . [MORESQUE.] Mâur'-Ist, a. & s. [From Lat. Maurus, the name of the favorite follower of St. Benedict.] A. As adj.: Belonging to or characteristic of the Congregation described under B. B. As substantive: Eccles . & Church Hist . ( pl . ): The members of the Congregation of St. Maur, to whom literature owes the stately tomes known as "Benedictine Editions." The Congregation had its origin in a reform of the Benedictines in the early part of the seventeenth century; it was supported by De Retz and afterward by Richelieu, and in 1720 po e ed in France six provinces, containing 180 abbeys and priories, Among the most celebrated of the Maurists are Mabillon, Martene, Montfaucon, the founder of the science of archæology, Ruinart, Lami, Le Nourri, and Martianay. Jansenism seems to have affected some of the convents, and, according to Badiche, a Masonic Lodge was established at Glanfeuil in 1755, over which the prior of the monastery in that place presided. The Congregation was suppre ed in 1792.