Merv (merv), or Merve

An oasis in Ru ian Mesilla (mā-selyä). [Sp., 'little mesa.'] A central Asia, lying along the river Murgab about lat. 37° 30′ N., long. 62° E. Its inhabitants are Tekke-Turkomans. From its strategic and commercial position between Persia, Bokhara, and Herat it has town in southern New Mexico, on the Rio Grande, founded about 1830. Mesmer (mes'mer), Fried rich Anton. Born near Con stance, Baden, May 23, 1733: died at Me ina Sparta from about 743 to 724 B. C., and was subjugated; attempted unsucce fully to shake off the Spartan yoke about 648-631; had its independence restored 369 B. с.; and was annexed to Rome about 146 В. С. 2. A nomarchy of modern Greece, situated between Triphylia and Lacedæmon. Area, 667 square miles. Population (1896), 119,327. Me enia, or Koron (kõʻron), Gulf of. An inlet of the Mediterranean, south and east of Me enia, Greece. Me er (mes'ėr), Asa. Born at Methuen, Ma ., 1769: died at Providence, R. I., Oct. 11, 1836. An American educator, president of Brown University 1802-27. Me iah (me-si'ä). [Heb., 'anointed'; Gr. Μεσσίας.] A designation of Jesus as the Saviour of the world; the Hebrew equivalent of Christ, the Anointed: from prophetic pa ages in the Hebrew Scriptures (where, except in two instances in Daniel, it is translated Anointed , often as a noun) interpreted by Jesus and by Christians as referring to him and universal in scope, but regarded by the Jews as promising a coming Me iah is still held as a doctrine by many Jews; and at various periods of the Christian era impostors have a umed the name and character, and have had many adherents. The title is also applied figuratively to historical characters who have been great deliverers. Sometimes written, after the Greek of the New Testament, Me ias . and belonged succe ively to the Parthians, Saracens, and Seljuks. It was ravaged by the Mongols in 1221. Later it belonged in turn to Uzbegs, Persians, and Bokharans. The Ru ians overran and annexed it in 1883-84. It is now traversed by the Trans cas pian Railway. Population, about 250,000. The locality now called Merv is merely a large village. Merveilleuse (mer-vā-yėz'). [F., ‘marvelous.'] The sword of Doolin of Mayence. Merville (mer-vēl'). A town in the department of Nord, France, situated on the Lys 18 miles west of Lille. Population (1891), commune, 7,573. physician, originator of the theory of mesmerism or animal magnetism. He studied divinity at Dillingen and Ingolstadt, but afterward studied medicine at Vienna, where he took his degree in 1766. He began about 1771 an investigation into the supposed curative powers of the magnet, which led him to adopt the theory of animal magnetism. This he made public in 1775 in a pamphlet entitled "Sendschreiben an einen auswärtigen Arzt über die Magnetkur." In 1778 he settled at Paris, where he created a sensation as a practitioner of mesmerism. In 1785 the French government appointed a commi ion of eminent physicians and scientists to investigate his system. An adverse report followed, and he fell into disrepute and spent his last years at Meersburg. Mesocco. See Misocco . Méry (mā-rē'), Joseph. Born near Marseilles, Jan. 21, 1798: died at Paris, June 17, 1866. A Me so long i Me so long hi. See Mis so long hi . French littérateur. Among his numerous works are novels, books of travel, plays, and poems. Conjointly with Barthélemy he wrote satirical verses. Méryon (mā-ryôn ́), Charles. Born at Paris in 1821: died at Char ent on, near Paris, in 1868. A French etcher and engraver. Among his works are "Le pont du change," "La vieille morgue," "Le petit pont," "La rue de la Pirouette," etc. Merzig (mert's ig). A small town in the Rhine Province, Pru ia, situated on the Saar 20 miles south by east of Treves. Mesa. See Mesha . Mesartim (mē-sär'tim). [Deriv. uncertain.] A commonly used name for the 44-magnitude double star y Arietis. Mescal a (mes-käʻlä), or Mexcala (mās-käʻlä), or Mercala (mer-kä'lä), or Rio de las Balsas (rē'ō da läs bäl'säs). A river in Mexico which flows into the Pacific between the states of Michoacan and Guerrero. Length, 500 miles. Mescalero (mez"ka-lā'rō). ['Eaters of the mescal.'] A tribe of the Apache group of North American Indians, north of San Carlos agency in 1883. See Apaches . Meschede (mesh'a-de). A small town in the province of Westphalia, Pru ia, 10 miles east IMG:content-0770.png:[blocks in formation] Contemporary with these events and discu ions lived Antonio Mira de Mescua, well known from 1602 to 1635 as a writer for the stage, and much praised by Cervantes and Lope de Vega. He was a native of Guadix in the kingdom of Granada, and in his youth became archdeacon of its cathedral; but in 1610 he was at Naples, attached to the poetical court of the Count de Lemos, and in 1620 he gained a prize in Madrid, where he died in 1635 while in the office of chaplain to Philip the Fourth. He wrote secular plays, autos, and lyrical poetry. Mesembria. See Misivri . It is Me so pot am i a (mes"ō-pō-tā'mi-ä). [Gr. Μεσοπο ταμία , the land between the rivers.] The great plain between the Euphrates and Tigris: in the Old Testament called Aram Naharaïm. usually divided into Upper Me so pot am i a, covering ancient As syria, and Lower Me so pot am i a, comprising ancient Chaldea and Babylonia. It was conquered by Thothmes III., Seti I., Rameses II., and other Egyptian monarchs, and has belonged at different times to the Median, Persian, Maced on i an, Syrian, Part hi an, Roman, New Persian, Saracenic, and Turkish empires, and is now a Turkish province with Bagdad as capital. See also Aram and Babylon . The connection of ideas in this prophecy is so clear, and it sets forth with so much completene Isaiah's whole view of Jehovah's purpose towards Judah, that we may regard it as a typical example of what is usually called Me ianic prediction. The name Me iah is never used in the Old Testament in that special sense which we are accustomed to a ociate with it. The Me iah (with the article and no other word in apposition) is not an Old Testament phrase at all, and the word Me iah (Māshiah), or "anointed one," in the connection "Jehovah's anointed one" is no theological term, but an ordinary title of the human king whom Jehovah has set over Israel. Thus the usual way in which the time of Israel's redemption and final glory is called the Me ianic time is incorrect and misleading. So long as the Hebrew kingdom lasted, every king was "Jehovah's anointed," and it was only after the Jews lost their independence that the future restoration could be spoken of in contrast to the present as the days of the Me iah. To Isaiah the restoration of Israel is not the commencement but the continuation of that personal sovereignty of Jehovah over His people of which the Davidic king was the recognised representative. As the holy seed which repeoples the land after the work of judgment is done is a fresh growth from the ancient stock of the nation (vi. 13), so too the new Davidic kingship is a fresh outgrowth of Me so pot am i a, The Argentine. [Sp. Mesopo- the old stem of Je e. We are apt to think of the Me iah tamia Argentina .] A name frequently given to that portion of the Argentine Republic which lies between the rivers Paraná and Uruguay. It includes the provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes and the territory of Mi i ones. Mesrob (mes-rob'), or Miesrob (myes-rob'). Lived in the 5th century A. D. A patriarch of Armenia, a reputed founder of Armenian literature, who devised the Armenian alphabet of 36 letters, to which after his time two more were added, and the Georgian alphabet of 39 or 40 letters, still in use. Me ala (me-sā'lä), or Me all a (me-sal'lä), Corvinus Marcus Valerius. Lived in the second half of the 1st century B. C. A Roman general, official, orator, historian, and patron of literature. Me alina, or Me all in a (mes-a-li'nä), Valeria. Executed 48 A. D. Wife of the emperor Claudius. She was the daughter of Marcus Valerius Me ala Barbatus, and became the third wife of Claudius, who afterward ascended the imperial throne. She was a woman of infamous vices, and during a temporary absence of her husband publicly married her favorite, C. Silius. She was put to death by order of Claudius. Me an a (me-sā'nä). An ancient name of Mes Ticknor , Span. Lit., II. 329. sin a. Meseritz (ma'ze-rits). A town in the province of Posen, Pru ia, situated on the Obra 55 miles west of Posen. Population (1885), 5,783. Mesha (me'shä), or Mesa (me'zä). (Heb., 'help, 'deliverance. A king of Moab about $50 B. C. He is mentioned in 2 Ki. iii. as having been subject to the kings of Israel, but after Ahab's death he fell away. Hereupon Joram, king of Israel, in alliance with Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, undertook an expedition against him, and shut him up in Kir-Haresheth, situated a little to the east of the southern end of the Dead Sea. In this emergency Mesha sacrificed his first-born son to Chemosh. The Israeli tes thereupon departed to their land. In 1868 a stele was discovered near Dibon, the ancient cap ital of Moab, on which Mesha had recorded this event. It is written in the Moabite dialect, which only slightly differs from Hebrew, with the ancient Hebrew character, the so-called Samaritan or Phenic i an, and is the oldest Me apia (me-sa'pi-ä). [Gr. Μεσσαπία.] In ancient geography, the peninsula at the south- eastern extremity of Italy: often used as synony- mous with Calabria or Iapygia. Me ene (me-se'nē). [Gr. Μεσσήνη.] 1. In ancient geography, a city in Me enia, Greece, on the slope of Mt. It home in lat. 37° 11′ N., long. 21° 56′ E. It was founded as a fortre against Sparta, under the influence of Epa min on das, in 369 B. C., and is noted now for its extensive ruins at the modern village of Mavromati. 2. An ancient name of Me ina. Me enger (mes'en-jer). A gray thoroughbred horse, by Mambrino, which was imported into the United States from England about 1788. All the main lines of trotting-horses except the Morgans and Clays are derived from him. The Hamble ton i ans trace directly to him by way of Hamble ton i an (10), Abdallah, and Mambrino.