mormeluchet

[ They hear and see many times, devils, bugbears, and mormeluches. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 659. mormo (môr'mō), n. [NL. in sense 2, One would think by this play the devils were mere mor mos and bugbears, fit only to fright children and fools. Jeremy Collier , English Stage, p. 192. ( Hall i well . ) War burton, Prodigies, p. 80. The mormos and bugbears of a frighted rabble. 2. [ cap.] In entom., a genus of noctuid moths of the subfamily Amphipyrinæ, erected by Hübner in 1816, having the tufted abdomen extended beyond the hind wings. The only species, M. maura, is distributed throughout Europe. Mormon1 (môr'mon), n. [NL., over by a president and two counselors whose authority extends over the entire church, and it includes the twelve apostles, the seventies, the patriarch, the high priests, and the elders. The twelve apostles constitute a travel. ing high council, which ordains other officers and is intrusted with general ecclesiastical authority; the seventies are the mi ionaries and the propagandists of the body; the patriarch pronounces the ble ing of the church; the high priests officiate in the offices of the church in the absence of any higher authorities; and the elders conduct meetings and superintend the priests. The Aaronic priesthood includes the bishops, the priests, the teachers, and the deacons; the two last named are the subordinate orders in the church. The duties of the bishops are largely secular. The entire territory governed by the church is divided and subdivided into districts, for the more efficient collection of tithes and the administration of the government. The Mormons accept the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants as authoritative, and regard the head of their church as invested with divine authority, receiving his revelations as the word of the Lord. They maintain the doctrines of repentance and faith, a literal resurrection of the dead, the second coming of Christ and his reign upon earth (having the seat of his power in their territory), baptism by immersion, baptism for the dead, and polygamy as a sacred duty for all those who are capable of entering into such marriage. The Mormons settled first at Kirtland, Ohio, then in Mi ouri, and after their expulsion from these places in Nauvoo, Illinois; in 1847-8 they removed to Utah, and have since spread and states ming, etc. They have frequently defied the United government. There is also a comparatively small branch of the Mormon Church, entitled "The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," which is opposed to polygamy and is ecclesiastically independent of the original organization. Also Mormonist, Mormonite. - Book of Mormon, one of the authoritative writings of the Mormon Church. According to the Mormons, it is the record of certain ancient peoples in America, abridged by the prophet Mormon, written on golden plates, and discovered by Joseph Smith at Cumorah (western New York), and translated by him. By anti-Mormons it is generally regarded as taken from a romance written about 1811 by Solomon Spauld ing, whose manuscript was used by Smith and Rigdon. Mormondom (môr'mon-dum), n. [