maternality (maternal it i)

[ maternity (ma-ter'ni-ti), n.; pl. maternities (-tiz). [F. maternité = Sp. maternidad = Pg. maternidade =It. maternità, Her charity was the cause of her maternity . Partheneia Sacra (1633), p. 47. 2. A place for the care of mothers in childbirth; a lying-in ward or hospital. [Rare.] The hospital contains 65 beds, and has also a large extern maternity attached. Lancet, No. 3445, p. 509. Extern maternity. See extern. - Maternity hospital. See hospital . mateship (mat's hip), n. [ mate1 + -ship .] Fellowship; companionship. [Rare.] I sat among them equally In fellowship and mateship , as a child. Mrs. Browning , Aurora Leigh, vii. matfelont, n. [Early mod. E. also mater fil on ; matfelon , mate felon , matfelone , matte felon (W. madfelen , matefe lun , mateflon , knapweed.] The knapweed, Cen taurea nigra ; also, C. scabiosa . Tak a vaunce, matfelon , yarow, and sanygill, and stamp tham, and temper tham with stale ale, and drynk hít morn and even. Reliquiæ Antiquæ , i. 53. mat-gra (mat'grås), n. 1. Same as matweed. -2. A European gra , Nardus strict a, which grows abundantly on moors and heaths in short tufts. It is worthle for agricultural purposes, except as affording a natural pasturage for sheep. Also called nard. IMG:content-0328.png:[blocks in formation] mathematician (math"ē-mā-tish'an), п. F. mathématicien ; as mathematic + -ian.] 1. mat he matico logical (math-e-mat i-ko-loj'i- kal), a. Applying mathematics or algebra to logic. Jevons . mathematics (math-e-mat'iks), n. [Pl. of math- into every line which is derived from the centre, but our soul, which is but one, hath swallowed up a negative and feeling soul. Donne, Letters, xxi. Byron, Granta. All pure mathematic is thus a science of pure intuition. Hickok, Mental Philos., p. 125. mathematical (math-e-mat'i-kal), a. and n. [ mathematic + -al.] I. a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or relating to mathematics; having to do with pure quantity; quantitative: as, mat he- matical knowledge; mathematical instruments; a mathematical theory. 3t. Geometrical, as opposed to arithmetical and beometrical algebraical : an incorrect use, formerly current. Arithmetical, mathematical , algebraical, and paradox i- cal questions. R. Carlile (1794), title of book. mat i (mä'tē), n. [Chin., ma , horse, + t'i , foot.] A sedge, Eleocharis tuberosa , growing in China, with wholesome edible tubers. matias bark. Same as malambo bark (which see, under bark2 ). maticin, maticine (mat'i-sin), n. [ matico1 + -in2, -ine2.] A bitter principle obtained from the plant matico. maticol (ma-tē kō), n. [Sp.] Aplant, Piper an- gust i folium ( Art an the elongata ), natural order Pipe raceæ . In Peru it has long enjoyed a high reputa- urinary pa ages. A species of Eupatorium ( E. glutino- sum ) has the same name. matico2 (mat'i-kō), n. Same as mataco . matie (ma'ti), n. i), n. [Origin uncertain.] A fresh herring in which the roe or milt is perfectly but not largely developed. This is the state in which the fish are in the best condition for food, being most delicious as well as most nutritive. Although they are not so bulky in appearance as full herring, they are in re- ality much fatter. See full herring , under herring . Per- matin (mat'in), n. and a . [ matin (in pl. matyns ), matin (= It. mattino ) , fem. of an adj. * matutus , early, timely (?), akin to maturus , mature: see mature . Cf. matutine .] I. n. 11. Morning. The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. Shak ., Hamlet, i. 5. 89. (often applicable to real problems), and the discovery thereby of relations between the parts of these constructions, before unknown. The observations being upon objects of imagination mere- ly, the discoveries of mathematics are susceptible of being rendered quite certain. The first considerable advances in mathematics were made by the Greeks, whose greatest geometers, Euclid, Arch i me des, and A poll on i us, flourished in or about the third century B. C. After their time not very much progre was made until the seventeenth cen- tury, but since then the progre of discovery has been continuous. See absolute , algebra, arithmetic, equation , function , geometry, group , infinite , infinitesimal , number, psalms. problem , quantity , space , theorem , etc. To the pure mathematics are those sciences belonging which handle quantity determinate. Applied mathematics, the mathematical study of a series of problems the connection of which is objective: opposed to pure mathematics , which studies systems of relations, the connection lying in the analogy of the re- lati on ship. Examples of applied mathematics are rigid dynamics, hydrodynamics, theory of probabilities, the kinetical theory of gases, etc. - Higher mathematics, all the scientifically treated branches of mathematics-that is, all except practical arithmetic, elementary geometry, trigonometry, and a part of algebra. mathemeg (math'e-meg), n. [Said to be Cree Indian, meaning ugly.] A fish of the Sas- katchewan basin, believed to be the siluroid A miurus nigricans , a kind of catfish. Bp . Hooper , Works, I. 330. The arte of vulgar arithmeticke. Newly collected, digested, and in some part devised, by a wel willer to the Mathematic als . T. Hill (1600), title of book. ematics, μάθησις , learning, knowledge, sci- ence, μανθάνειν , μαθεῖν , learn: see mathematics .] 1. Mental discipline; learning or science in general, especially mathematics. [Obsolete or archaic.] Mad Mathesis alone was unconfined, Too mad for mere material chains to bind, Now to pure space lifts her ecstatic stare, 2. [ cap .] In entom ., a genus of clerid beetles, erected by Water house in 1877, having a long antennal club and the third tarsal joint not bi- lobed. The type is M. guttigera of New Zealand, resem- bling the longicorn Zorion guttigerum , with which it is a ociated, and upon which it is probably parasitic. mathesyt, n. [ mathesis , learning: see mathesis .] Mathesis; mathematics. Anon after he set vp a great scole at Cauntorbury of al maner of scyences, as rhetorick, logyck, phylosophy, ma- thesy , astrologi, geometrye, arithmeticke, and musicke. mathook1 (mat'hük), n. In hydraul , eng in ., a long pole with an iron hook at the end, used in making and handling mats for jetty-work. Lyes and libels served as spades and mathooks to work with. Roger North , Examen, p. 592. mathook2t, n. A falsified form of mattock . Mathurin (math'u-rin), n . [So called as occu- pying the church of St. Mathurin in Paris.] A member of the order of Trinitarians. See Trini- tarian , 2. He ne hurde ma e & matyns and eueson & eche tyde. Rob. of Gloucester , p. 369. And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Up rose the victor angels, and to arms The matin trumpet sung. Milton, P. L., vi. 526. Each morn my sleep was broken thro' By some wild skylark's matin song. matire