montanic (montanik)

[ All the ascetic, rigorous, and chiliastic elements of the ancient church combined in Montanism. 3. Shocking; hateful; horrible: as, a mon- Mon tanist (mon'tā-nist), n. strous delusion. How monstrous It was for Malcolm and for Don alba in To kill their gracious father! Shak., Macbeth, iii. 6. 8. They err who write no Wolves in England range; Here Men are all turn'd Wolves; O monstrous change! Howell , Letters, I. vi. 58. What a monstrous Catalogue of sins do we meet with in the first Chapter to the Romans! Stilling fleet, Sermons, II. iii. 4t. Full of monsters or strange creatures, Schaff , Hist. Christian Church, II. 417. [ νιστής , & follower of Montan us, Μοντανός , LL. Montan us : see Montanism .] A believer in the tenets of Montanism. These zealots hailed the appearance of the Paraclete in Phrygia, and surrendered themselves to his guidance. In so doing, however, they had to withdraw from the church, to be known as Mon tanists , or "Kataphrygians," and thus to a ume the character of a sect. Encyc . Brit., XVI. 775. Montan is tic (mon-tā-nis'tik), a. [ Mon tanist +-ic.] Pertaining to the doctrines, customs, or character of the Mon tanists, Montan is tical Montan is tical (mon-tā-nis'ti-kal), a. [ montant (mon'tant), a. and n. [ II. n. 11. In fencing , apparently a blow from below upward, but the sense is uncertain. To see thee pa thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant. Shak ., M. W. of W., ii. 3. 26. 2. In joinery, the intermediate vertical part of a piece of framing which is tenoned with the rails. See cut under door. montantot (mon-tan'tō), п. [Irreg. 'Slid! an these be your tricks, your pa ados, and your montantos , I'll none of them. B. Jonson , Every Man in his Humour, iv. 5. mont-de-piété (môn ́dė-pē-ā-tā'), n. [F., = Sp. monte de piedad, monte di pietà , lit. 'fund of pity' (cf. equiv. Sp. monte pio , 'pious fund'), s , hill, heap, ML. also pile of money, fund, bank; de , of; pieta (t-)s, piety, ML. compa ion, pity: see mount1 , de2 , piety , pity .] An institution established by public authority for lending money on the pledge of goods, at a reasonable rate of interest. These establishments originated in Italy in the fifteenth century, the object in founding them being to countervail the exorbitantly usurious practices of the Jews. The funds, together with suitable warehouses and other accommodations, are managed by directors, and the goods pledged are sold if the money lent on them is not returned by the proper time.