major ate2 (majorat)

[F. majorat, n., and -ates.] The office or rank of major; majority; majorship. [Rare.] major at i on (ma-jo-rā'shon), n. [ IMG:content-0107.png:[blocks in formation] majuscula (ma-jus kū-lä), n.; pl . majuscula (-le). [L. (ML.), sc. litter a , letter: see majuscule .] Same as majuscule . majuscule (ma-jus'kül), n. [F. majuscule Sp . mayúscul a = Pg. maiusculo = It. majusculo , a., majuscula , sc. litter a , a somewhat larger letter (sc. than the minuscule), fem. of majusculus , somewhat larger, dim. of major (neut. majus ), larger, greater: see major .] In paleography , a capital or uncial letter: opposed to minuscule . Majuscule writing, writing composed of capital or uncial letters, as in the oldest surviving Greek manuscripts, and in the majority of Latin manuscripts down to the ninth century. In Greek paleography ma- juscule writing is not clearly distinguished into capital and uncial writing, as in Latin (true capitals being con- fined to superscriptions, in imitation of the lapidary style), and all three adjectives are often alike applied to it. See capital , cursive , minuscule , uncial. In Latin majuscule writing there exist both capitals and uncials, each cla distinct. In Greek MSS. pure capital letter writing was never employed (except occasionally for ornamental titles at a late time). Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 145. makable (ma'ka-bl), a. [ make1 + -able .] Capable of being made; effectible; feasible. Maka ar oil. See Maca ar oil , under oil . makel (māk), v .; pret. and pp. made , ppr. mak- ing . [ maken , makien (pret. makede , maked , pp.maked , maad , mad , imaked , imad , imade , etc.), macian (pret. macode , pp. macod ) = OS. macon =OFries. maki a , mekia , also matia , maitia , meitia = MD. maken , maecken , D. maken = MLG. LG. maken = OHG. machōn , mahhōn , MHG. G. machen , make, in OHG. also fit or fasten to- gether (not found in Icel. or Goth.; cf. Sw. mak a , move, = Dan. mage , manage, gemæc , fit, suitable, = OHG.gimah , MHG. G. gemach , fit, suited, corresponding, = Icel. makr in compar. makar a , more fit or suit- Stone walls do not a prison make , Nor iron bars a cage. Thanne Lecchoure seyde "all as!" and on owre lady he cryed, To make mercy for his mis-dedes bitwene God and his soule. Piers Plowman (B), v. 73. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. IMG:content-0108.png:[blocks in formation] Major ist (major-ist), n. [ Major (see def.) + -ist.] A follower of Georg Major, a German Protestant (1502-74), who able, Sw. mak a = Dan. mage , matching; cf. Protestant theolog i ane, or maintain Major is tic (ma-jo-ris'tik), a . [ Major ist + -ic.] Of or pertaining to the Majorists or to their doctrines. - Major is tic controversy, a contro- versy which began in 1551-2 between Georg Major and Nik- olaus von Amsdorf, in regard to the doctrine of justifica- tion by faith. Major maintained that good works are es- sential to salvation, and Amsdorf was accused of believing that they are a hindrance to salvation. The controversy con- tinued till the adoption of the Formula of Concord in 1577. majority (ma-jor'i-ti), n.; pl. majorities (-tiz). [= F. major ité = Sp. may or i dad = Pg. maiori- dade = It. magg i or ità , major it a ( t- )s, major , greater: see major and -ity .] 1. The state of being major or greater; superiority; preponderance. Douglas, whose high deeds, Whose hot incursions, and great name in arms, Holds from all soldiers chief majority . Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 109. 2. The greater number; more than half the whole number: as, a majority of mankind; a majority of votes. See plurality . After all, it is my principle that the will of the majority should prevail. Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 276. 3. The exce of one of two groups of things which have been enumerated over the other: as, the measure was carried by a majority of twenty votes; his majority was two to one.- 4. Full age; the age at which the laws of a country permit a young person to manage his own affairs and to exercise the rights of citizen- ship-in most countries twenty-one years. The majority of a reigning prince usually occurs much earlier; in France it used to be at fourteen years. See age , n., 3. This prince [Henry III.) was no sooner come to his ma- jority but the baron raised a cruel war against him. Sir J. Davies, State of Ireland. 5. The office, rank, or commi ion of a major. Soon after his marriage Thompson became acquainted with Governor Went worth of New Hampshire, who, struck by his appearance and bearing, conferred on him the ma- jority of a local regiment of militia. Encyc. Brit ., XXIII. 309. 6t. [L. majores .] Ancestors; ancestry. A posterity not unlike their majority . The boke maad of Rycharde Hampole heremyte to an ankere e. Hampole , Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), Pref., p. xi. To war des the west, aboute a good bow shote, is Ager Damascenus, in the whiche place Adam was made. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 54. And God made two great lights;... he made the stars also. Gen. i. 16. What nature makes in any mood To me is warranted for good. IMG:content-0109.png:[blocks in formation] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Ex. xx. 4. If my breast had not been made of faith and my heart of steel. Shak., C. of E., iii. 2. 150. Fairy tales are made out of the dreams of the poor. Lowell, Democracy. 3. To fashion suitably; adapt in formation or constitution; design or intend in making: gen- erally in the pa ive, followed by for or an in- finitive with to . The sabbath was made for man. Meat was made for mouths. Mark ii. 27. Shak., Cor., i. 1. 211. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., v. 1. 7. Burns, Title of Poem. 4. To convert or transform, as into something different; cause to receive a new form or con- dition: with into expre ed or understood. He fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. Ex. xxxii. 4. Sometimes it [the peacock) was made into a pie, at one end of which the head appeared above the crust in all its plumage, with the beak richly gilt. 5. To fashion by action or preparation; bring into condition or order; fit for use or service; arrange; prepare: as, to make hay or a crop; to make a garden; to make a feast. Make me savoury meat, such as I love. The Lord make his face shine upon thee. Num. vi. 25. A Stumble makes one take firmer Footing. Howell , Letters, ii. 3. Tyl Pacience haue preued the and parfite the maked. Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 212. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Prov. xiii. 12. We stone thee because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. John x. 33. And you have been a man long known to me, though I had never so good means, as desire, to make myself ac- quainted with you. Shak ., M. W. of W., ii. 2. 189. You, and twenty you sand merks, Will make me a man complete, lady. Rob Roy (Child's Ballads, VI. 260). Milton , S. A., 1. 401. Pardon me, sir, the boldne is mine own, That, being a stranger in this city here, Do make myself a suitor to your daughter, Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous. For the more Solemnity of his Coronation, he then made nine Knights, and created four Earls. Baker , Chronicles, p. 136. 11. To cause to be perceived; bring into view or apprehension; manifest by demonstration apprehension, or representation: as, to make a show of devo- tion; to make a feint of attacking. Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bli , Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. We generally make love in a style and with sentiments very unfit for ordinary life: they are half theatrical, half romantic. Steele , Spectator, No. 479. Thus, aiming to be fine, they make a show, As tawdry squires in country churches do. IMG:content-0110.png:[blocks in formation] She was in his company at Page's house, and what they made there I know not. Shak ., M. W. of W., ii. 1. 244. Night's bird, quoth he, what mak'st thou in this place, To view my wretched miserable case? Grete merveile hadde Pendragon that Merlin com not as he hadde made promyse, till that merlin drow hym a-syde. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 47. Desyre him cum, and make me aide. Sang of the Outlaw Murray (Child's Ballads, VI. 30). Make ye marriages with us. Gen. xxxiv. 9. There is a brief, how many sports are ripe; Make choice of which your highne will see first. Shak ., M. N. D., v. 1. 43. A gnat's wings make ten or fifteen you sand strokes per H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., § 91. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 105. They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. Sir T. Browne , Vulg. Err. We could only make Bethany before the night came. L. Wallace , Ben-Hur, p. 40. 17. To bring into force or operation; cause to 22. To inform; apprise; prepare by previous instruction; forewarn; "coach”; train. I was only wondering what our people would make of her; they have never seen a white servant in their lives. Harper's Mag ., LXXVIII. 242. circuit. See the house to make account, to make To make a back, a bed, a board, abode, a cast, account of. See account . - To make a clean breast of. See breast. - To make a clean sweep. See sweep . - To make a current or circuit, in elect ., to complete the electric circuit, and so allow the current to flow. - To make a difference, a dividend, a double, a face. See figure. See cut . the nouns. - To make a figure, to be conspicuous; cut a To make a flash, a fool of, a handt, a hare of, a hash of, a leg, a lip. See the nouns. To make all splitt, to behave violently or rantingly. [Slang.] I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split . Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split . Beau . and Fl ., Scornful Lady, ii. 3. To make a long arm, to stretch out the arm in reach- ing for anything, as at table. [Colloq.] - To make a magnet. Same as to make the magnet. - To make a march, a meal, a mock of. See the nouns. - To make a matter of conscience. See conscience. To make amends, to render compensation or satisfaction. - Το make a mouth. See mouth. - To make an end. See end. - To make an honest woman of. See honest. - To make a pa age, a point of, a run, a scene, a show, a stand. See the nouns. To make avauntt. th To make sail, shift, etc. See the nouns. - To make IMG:content-0111.png:[blocks in formation] William Morris , Earthly Paradise, III. 112. To make boot of, capital of, cheert, choice of. See the nouns. - To make both ends meet. See end. - To make common cause with. See cause. - To make connections. See connection. - To make conscience. See conscience. To make dangert, to attempt or try; make experiment. [A Latinism.] If there be e'er a private corner as you go, sir, A foolish lobby out o' the way, make danger ; Try what they are, try. To make danger oft. See danger . - To make dates. See datel. To make dole (or dool)t, to mourn.- To make ducks and drakes. See duck2 . - To make earth, in teleg ., to put the line in contact with the earth. When there is a leakage of current from the line to earth it is said to make earth. - To make even. See even1. - To make fast. See fastl . To make feastt. See feast . - To make fish, to cure or dry fish. [Cant.] - To make foul water. See foul . To make free with. See free . - To make fromt, to take from; alienate. Make from olde reliques reverence; From publique shews magnificence. To make fun of, to ridicule. - To make game of. See gamel. - To make good. See good . - To make good cheert, to make good play, to make haste, to make hay, make head against. See the nouns. - To make good or bad weather ( naut .), to behave (well or ill) in a gale: said of a ship. To make bad weather is to roll or pitch violently. IMG:content-0112.png:[blocks in formation] To make interest. See interest . - To make it one's busine . See busine . - To make known. See known. - To make light of. See light2 . To make little of. (a) To consider as of little or no value; treat as in sign if i- cant. (b) To fail to understand fully. See to make nothing of . To make love to. See lovel. To make margin, See margin. - To make mattert, to matter; import. What makes matter , say they, if a bird sing auke or crow cro ? Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 247. To make meanst. See means. - To make mock at. See fast or bar the doors; close the entrance. Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. Shak., As you Like it, iv. 1. 162. To make the feathers or fur fly. See flyl . To make the land. See land1.- To make the magnet, in elec- tromagnetism , to close the electric circuit which includes the magnetizing coil of the magnet, or otherwise to send a current through that circuit. To unmake the magnet is to open the circuit or stop the current. - To make the most of, to use to the best advantage; use to the utter- My eunuch sing, my fool make up the antic. B. Jonson, Volpone, iii. 6. (g) To a ume a particular form of features: as, to make up a face. Hence, to make up a lip is to pout. (h) To com- pensate; make good: as, to make up a lo . (i) To set- tle; adjust or arrange for settlement: as, to make up accounts. (j) To determine; bring to a definite conclu- sion: as, to make up one's mind. ( k ) To reckon. We must make up our ears 'gainst these a aults Of charming tongues. The engineers made up their minds that we were in the trade winds again,. and that we should not want the engines for some days. Lady Bra ey , Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xviii. With a cheerful smile, as one whose mind Is all made up . Tennyson, Queen Mary, iv. 3. To make up one's mouth for, to expect with desire; have an appetite for: as, his mouth was made up for a chicken salad. [Colloq.] - To make war, to bring about an armed contest; initiate or levy war; make an attack in force: as, to make war upon or against a neighboring country. If it [a city]... will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it. Deut. xx. 12. To make water. (a) Naut . , to leak; take in water by a leak. (b) To urinate. - To make way. (a) To make pro- make words, to multiply engage in wordy discu ion or dispute. II. in trans. 1. To do; act; be active; take a course or line of action: now only in phrases (more, a great deal, and the like) of. (a) To consider as of great value, or as giving great pleasure; treat with special favor. (b) See to make nothing of. To make no bones. See bonel. - To make no doubt, to have no Like som vnskilfull Lad that vnder-takes To holde som ships helm, while the head-long Tyde Carries away that Ve ell and her Guide. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Handy-Crafts. 2. To cause one's self to be or appear; mani- fest the state or condition of being; act in a certain manner, as indicated by a succeeding adjective: as, he made bold to ask a favor; to make merry over another's mishap.-3. To have effect; contribute; tend; be of advantage: fol- lowed by for , formerly sometimes by to . a reconciliation; settle differences; become friends again: as, ki and make up. To any overtures of reconciliation he [Bowles] made prompt and winning response. "The pleasantest man to make up with that I ever knew," said a life-long acquaint- G. S. Merriam , S. Bowles, I. 215. (b) To dre , etc., as an actor, for a particular part; partic- ularly, to paint and disguise the face; give a different ap- pearance to one's self for any purpose or occasion.- To make up for, to compensate; replace; supply by an equivalent. Have you got a supply of friends to make up for those who are gone? Swift , To Pope. proach and join; come into company with. To make up to. (a) To approach; draw near to; ap- left hand of the narrow way; and they made up apace to He espied two men come tumbling over the wall, on the IMG:content-0113.png:[blocks in formation] Young Bullock, who had been making up to Mi Maria the last two seasons. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xii. make-kingt (māk'king), n. [ Thou wishest I should make to Shoar; Yet still put'st in thy thwarting Oar. 5. To move upward or inward; flow up or to- ward the land; rise: said of the tide and of water in a ship, etc.: as, the tide makes fast; water was making in the hold.-6t. To com- pose; especially, to compose poetry. Compare maker , 2. Ye lovers, that kan make of sente ment, In this case oghte ye be diligent The God of shepheards, Tityrus, is dead, Who taught me homely, as I can, to make . IMG:content-0114.png:[blocks in formation] Though they ever speak on his side, yet their words still make against him. Bacon, E . of a King, p. 210. To make and break, in elect ., to close and open a cir- cuit; set up and stop a current. To make as if or though, to act as if; appear; make believe; feign that. Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. Josh. viii. 15. IMG:content-0115.png:[blocks in formation] And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. To make off, to depart suddenly; run away; bolt. My sister took this occasion to make off . makel (māk), n. [ make ; make1 , v.] 1. Form; shape: shape; constitution and arrangement of parts; structure; style of making or make- up: as, a man of slender make ; the make of a IMG:content-0116.png:[blocks in formation] Oft in mid-banquet measuring with his eyes His neighbour's make and might. Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. 2. Mental constitution or character; intellec- tual make-up; individual nature or quality. Jack, therefore, being of a plodding make , shall be a citizen. Steele, Tatler, No. 30. It were obvious and unmixed deviltry simply to con- demn this natural make of mine, or turn it over to ruth- le punishment. H. James , Subs. and Shad., p. 19. 3. That which is made; manufacture; produc- tion: as, garments of domestic make . It is... the product of several large manufacturing establishments, who usually claim to have some peculiar- ity of proce or composition in their particular makes . Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences , IV. 638. 4. Quantity made; yield. These stoves have been extensively adopted, and in every case greatly increase the make from a furnace. Ure, Dict., IV. 463. 5. The act of making or gaining; search'or ef- fort for profit or advantage: in the slang phrase on the make .-6. In elect., close of the electric circuit, or pa age of the electric current through the circuit. make2t (māk), n. [ make , gemaca (not #mac a , as commonly cited) = OS. gimaco = OHG. gimahho , m., gimahhā , f., = Icel. maki , m., mak a , f., = Sw. make , m., mak a , f., = Dan. mage , a companion, fellow, mate; also, in variant form, E. mate , mate , prob. not a native E. change of the orig. make , but due to MD. maet , D. maat , prob. mate ; cf. the verb matia for maki a , make; cf. also AS. gemæcca (not * mæcca ), a companion, E. match1 ; with orig. collective prefix ge- , macian , make, of similar literal sense): see makel , v .] A com- orig. 'fit together' (ef. gadling1 , a companion, panion; a mate; a consort; a match. Ne noon so grey a goos gooth in the lake, As, seistow, wol been withoute make. How long Hath the poor turtle gone to school, weenest thou, To learn to mourn her lost make ? L. Bryskett (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 274). B. Jonson, Masque of Hymen. make3 (māk), n. [Origin not clear.] An instru- ment of husbandry, formed with a crooked piece of iron and a long handle, used for rooting up peas. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] make, n. See maik2 . makebate (māk'bāt), n. [ makel , v . , + obj. bate3.] 1. One who excites contentions and quarrels. Heywood , Woman Killed with Kindne . Love in her pa ions, like a right make - bate , whispered to both sides arguments of quarrels. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. In beautie first so stood she makeles , Her goodly looking gladed all the prees. Chaucer, Troilus, i. The world will wail thee, like a makele wife. Shak ., Sonnets, ix. make peace (māk'pēs), n. [ make1 , v., + obj. peace.] A peacemaker; one who reconciles persons at variance; a composer of strife; an adjuster of differences. [Rare.] To be a make - peace shall become my age. Shak., Rich. II., 1. 1. 160. maker (mā'kėr), n . [ maker , makyere , maker = OHG. ma- chare, MHG. macher, G. macher , mächer = Sw. makare = Dan. mager -in comp.), macian , make: see make1 .] 1. One who makes, creates, shapes, forms, or molds; specifically (with a capital letter), the Creator. I am gracyus and grete, God withoutyn begynnyng, I am maker vnmade, all mighte es in me. IMG:content-0117.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0118.png:[blocks in formation] My patience (Because I bear, and bear, and carry all, And, as they say, am willing to groan under), Must be your make - sport now. Fletcher, The Chances, iii. 1. make-strifet (māk's trif), n. [ make1 , v ., + obj. strife.] Same as make - bate . Minsheu.