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fius, entitled, “Conciliator, five de Convenientia Lo- 
corunr S. Scripturae, quae pugnare inter fe videntur, Opus 
ex Vetuflis et Rec.entionbus omnibus Rabbinis, magna 
Indufada ac Fide congeftum;” 4-to. This work, with 
the exception of fuch paffages as were dilated by the 
author’s jew'ilh prejudices, is entitled to very high com¬ 
mendation, on account of the intimate acquaintance 
with the Old Teftament writings, profound (kill in the 
Hebrew language, and judicious criticifms and conjec¬ 
tures, original as well as fele&ed from the mod valuable 
labours of preceding dofitors, which it displays. It de- 
fervedly procured the author the admiration and efteem 
of all the learned, both Jew’s and Chriftians. Grotius, 
in particular, in a correfpondence which lie maintained 
with the author, acknowledged his high opinion of its 
merits, and ftrongly recommended it to the notice of 
biblical fcholars. This part of the work is confined to 
the Pentateuch, and was‘followed by a fecond part, con¬ 
taining the earlier prophets, and the books of Jolhua, 
Samuel, and Kings, with additions to the preceding ; a 
third part, including the later prophets, with additions 
to part two; and a fourth comprifing the remaining 
books of feripture. Thefe three parts, however, were 
not.publifhed till after the author’s death ; the lecond part 
appearing in 1681, in theSpanifh language, and the others 
at fubfequent periods. 
Menaileh had confined himfel'f to the purfuit of his 
theological and literary (hidies till he was thirty-five 
years of age; wdien the expenfes of his growing family, 
to which the falary of his appointment was very inade¬ 
quate, obliged him to engage in the mercantile line. 
He alio let up a printing prefs in his own lioufe, at wdiich 
he printed three editions of the Hebrew Bible, and a 
number of rabbinical books in the Hebrew and Spanifli 
languages. Under the protectorate of Cromwell he came 
over tef England, in order to folicit leave for the i'ettle- 
ment of the jews in this country. He met with a favour¬ 
able reception from Cromwell and the parliament; and 
(ucceeded, if not to the full extent of his wilhes, yet in 
obtaining greater privileges for his nation than they had 
ever before enjoyed in this country. Here he alfo pub- 
lifiied, in 1656, his “ Apology for the Jew’s,” in the Eng- 
lifh language, in which he fatisfaCtorily exploded many 
calumnies which were propagated againft them, particu¬ 
larly thole of their crucifying, and uiing the blood of, 
Chriftian children at their paffover. This piece was 
afterwards reprinted in the fecond volume of the col- 
leClion of fcarce and curious tracts, entitled The Phcenix. 
He died at Amfterdam, moll probably about the year 
1659; and left a fon, who inherited his prefs, and em¬ 
ployed it in printing fome of his lather’s works. Me¬ 
naileh was relpeCted for his erudition, liberality, and ex- 
f cellent moral character, by the Chriftians, as well as his 
own people, and lived in habits of familiar intercourle 
and correfpondence with fome of the moll learned men of 
his time, particularly the Voflii, Barlaeus, Epifcopius, and 
Grotius. Of his numerous productions, in different lan¬ 
guages, publilhed either by himfelf or after his death, the 
following are the principal, exclufive of thofe already 
noticed : 3. A Spanilh Bible, 1630. 4. The Fentateuch, 
in Hebrew, with a Spanilh verfion, and notes; 1646, 8vo. 
5. The Treafurv of Rites, in Portugueie; being an 
abridgement of the Milhnah. 6. La Economia, &c. in 
Spanilh, relating to queftions concerning marriage, the 
condition of children, and the divifion of eftates. 7. On 
the RefurreCtion of the Dead, 1636, izmo. publilhed both 
in Spanidr and Latin. 8. On Adam’s Fall, and the 
Frailty of human Nature ; 1642, 4to. both in Spanilh and 
j, a tin. 9. Of the Hope of Ilfael; dedicated to the par¬ 
liament of England; 1650, 8vo. pubiilhed originally in 
Spanilh, and afterwards tranllated into Hebrew’, German, 
and Englilh ; one object of which is to prove that the ten 
tribes are fettled in America. 10. Sod Yejharim, or Se¬ 
cret of the Righteous ; a treatife on natural magic, from 
the writings of Chriftians; 1649. 11. Ni/hnath Chajini, 
MEN 
or Breath of Life; a treatife on the nature of the foul, 
in which the doCtrine of the Metempfychofis is laborioully 
attempted to be eftablifhed ; 165a, 4to. iz. Shapliah Be- 
rurali, or Pure Lip ; a treatife on Hebrew Grammar, &c; 
For the titles of his other pubiilhed or unpublilhed works, 
we refer the reader to Woljii Bibl. Idebraa. Bajnagc's- 
HJi. of the Jews, b. vii. c. 3a. 
MENA'T, a tow'n of France, in the department of the 
Puy de Dome: twenty-one miles north-north-weft of 
Riom, and tw’enty-feven north-north-weft of Clermont. 
MEN'CKE (Louis Otho), W’as born in 1644, at Olden¬ 
burg in Weftphalia,of w hich city his father was a fenator, 
and alfo in trade. After ftudying at and vifiting leveral 
of the univerlitjes in Germany and Holland, he w’as ap¬ 
pointed profefi’or of moral phiiofopliy at Leipfic in i 663 . 
He was, in the courfe of an aCtive and well-fpent life, five 
times reCtor of the univerfity, and occupied his poll; as 
profeffor till his death in 1707. He was editor of feveral 
learned w'orks, and was the planner of the periodical 
work called the Leipfic Journal, better know’n by the 
name ot AS a Eruditorum, of wdiich, with the affiftance of 
other learned men, he publilhed thirty volumes. 
MEN'CKE (John Burchard), fon of the preceding, was 
born at Leipfic in 1674, and in 1699 appointed to the 
profeliorfhip of hiftory, an office in which he acquired a 
high reputation by his leCtures. He was alfo liiltorio- 
grapher and aulic counfellor to Frederic-Auguftus of 
Saxony, king of Poland ; a member of the Academy of 
Berlin, and of the Royal Society of London. He died at 
Leipfic in i73z, leaving behind him feveral very learned 
and ufeful publications on hiltorical and phiiolophicai 
fubjeCts. One of the moll remarkable of thefe confifted 
of two Latin declamations, “ De Charlataneria Erudi¬ 
torum,” which were tranllated into various languages. 
He had a large lhare in, and was the original projector 
of, a German “ Dictionary of Learned Men;” but his 
chief undertaking was a collection of the German hifto- 
rians, under the title of “ Scriptores rerum Germani- 
carum, l’peciatim Saxonicarum,” in 3 vois. folio. He 
publilhed an enlarged edition of Lenglet’s “ Methode 
pouretudierl’Hiftoire, avec une Catalogue des principaux 
Hiftoriens ; and, after the death of his father, he con¬ 
tinued the Leipfic Journal to thirty-three volumes more. 
Moreri. 
MEND, a town of Perfia, in the province of Mecran, 
at the union of the Maklhid and the Nehenk : forty 
miles lbuth-weft of Kidge. Lat. Z5. 50. N. Ion. 63. 30. E. 
MEND, a river of Perfia, formed by the union of the 
Maklhid and Nehenk at the town of Mend, which after¬ 
wards runs into the Indian Sea in lat. 54. 27. N. Ion. 
62. 9>E. 
To MEND, v. a. [ emendo , Lat.] To repair from breach or 
decay.—They gave the money to the workmen to repair 
and mend the houie. z Chron. .xxxiv. 10.—To correCt; 
to alter for the better.—The bell lervice they could do 
to the ftate, was to mend the lives of the perfons who 
compoled it. Temple. 
Name a new play, and lie’s the poet’s friend ; 
Nay, lliow’d his faults— but when v.’ould poets mend! Pope. 
To help; to advance.—Whatever is new is unlooked for; 
and ever it mends fome, and impairs others: and he that 
is holpen takes it tor a fortune, and hp that is hurt for a 
wrong. Bacon. —To improve ; to increafe; 
Death comes not at thy call; juftice divine 
Mends not her flowed pace for pray’r or cries. Milton. 
To MEND, v.n. To grow better; to advance in any 
good ; to lie changed lor the better.— Maid when thou 
canft, be better at thy leilure. Shakejpeare. 
M EN'DABLE, uclj. Capable of being mended. A low 
word. 
MENDA'CITY,' J. [from mendax, Lat.] Falfeliood.— 
In this delivery there were additional mendacities; for 
the commandment iorbade to touch the fruit, and 
pofitively 
