mot a to rio us (mot at or i us)

[ ure. mostwhatt (most'hwot), adv. For the most part. Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 75. mosy, a. Feith, hope, & charite, nothing colde; The mooste of hem is charite. For all the rest do most - what fare amis. See mo y . mot it, n. An obsolete form of motel . mot2 (mot), n. [F. mot = Pr. mot = Sp. Pg. Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 117. mote = It. motto (> E. motto ), a word, motto, So both agreed that this their bridale feast Should for the Gods in Proteus house be made; To which they all repayr'd, both most and least. ML. muttum, a word, L. a mutter, a grunt, word; a motto. Spenser, F. Q., IV. xi. 9. 4. Greatest in amount, degree, or intensity: superlative of much. Thou hast lore thin cardinals at thi meste nede. Flemish Insurrection (Child's Ballads, VI. 273). I had most need of ble ing. Shak ., Macbeth, ii. 2. 32. 5. Greatest in number; numerous beyond others; amounting to a considerable majority: superlative of many : used before nouns in the plural. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodne . Prov. xx. 6. He thinks most sorts of learning flourished among them. Pope, For the most part, mostly; principally. II. n . 1. The greatest or greater number: in this sense plural. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done. Mat. xi. 20. He has his health and ampler strength indeed Than most have of his age. Shak ., W. T., iv. 4. 415. God hath not onely graven On the bra Tables of swift-turning Heav'n His sacred Mot. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Columnes. 2 (F. pron. mo). A saying, especially a brief and forcible or witty saying; a bon-mot. [Recent.] But, in fact, Des cartes himself was author of the mot -"My theory of vortices is a philosophical romance." Sir W. Hamilton ,