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Blackheatb. Here is afmall feat belonging to earl Batluirft, 
with pleafant grounds about it.: the beauty of the whole 
is owing to the improvements of his lordfhip. Here is 
alfo a very old manfion, which belonged to the ancient 
family of the Stoddarts. 
MODIO'LUS, f. in architecture. See Modillon. 
MODIO'LUS, J. in furgery ; [from modus, Lat. a mea- 
fure, becaufe it was formerly l'o conftru£ted, that it would 
only enter to a certain depth.] The crown or faw of the 
trepan. Anciently it refembled in lhape the nave of a 
wheel. 
MODI'RA CANI'RAM,/ in botany. SeeSTRYCHNOs. 
MODI'RA CAN'NI. See Hugonia. 
MO'DISH, adj. [from mode.— The vulgar ufe of modijh 
has, I fuppofe, difgraced it. It would not, now, be en¬ 
dured in polite converfation, much lefs in polite writing. 
Bp. Hurd.] Falhionable; formed according to the reign¬ 
ing cuftom.—For clothes, I leave them to the difcretion 
ofthe modi/h, whether of our own or the French nation. 
Phillips's T/ieatr. Poetarum, ( 1675.)— Hypocrily at the 
falhionable end of the town is very different from hy- 
pocrify in the city ; the modijh hypocrite endeavours to 
appear more vitious than he really is, the other kind of 
hypocrite more virtuous. Addijon. 
But you, perhaps, expeft a modijh feaft, 
With am’rous fongs and wanton dances grac’d. Congreve. 
MO'DISHLY, adv. Falhionably. — Young children 
ifhould not be much perplexed about putting off their 
hats, and making legs modijhhj. Loche. 
MO'DISHNESS, f. Affectation of the fafhion. 
MO'DIUM, a town of Norway, in the province of Ag- 
gerhuus : twenty miles weft of Chriftiania. 
MO'DIUS, j. A kind of dry meafure in ufe among the 
Romans for feveral forts of grain. The modius contained 
thirty-two heminse, or fixteen fextaries; or 5 of the am¬ 
phora ; amounting to an Englilh peck. 
MO'DIUS (Francis), a learned critic, was born at Ou- 
denbnrg, in the diocefe of Bruges, in Flanders, in 1546. 
The wars of the Low Countries obliged him to retire to 
Cologne, and to palls a great part of his life in Germany. 
Being at Bonne in 1587, when that towm was furprifed, 
he lolt all his efteCts and was dangeroufly wounded. He 
was finally prefen ted with a canonry at Aire, where he 
died in 1597. Modius wrote annotations upon feveral 
ancient writers, on the tablical authors Frontinus, Aelian, 
Modeftus,. and Vegetius; Livy, Quintus Curtius, Juftin, 
Tacitus, and others. They are moftly contained in his 
1 . ecHor.es Nov-antiquce, which were firft printed at Frank¬ 
fort in 1584, and were re-printed in one hundred and 
tw-enfy-three letters by Gruter, in the fifth vohime of his 
Theiaurus criticifs. He alfo wrote poems and other works 
in Latin. Moreri. 
MOD'LING, or Medling, a town of Auftria, with a 
citadel; celebrated for its wine: four miles north of Baden, 
and eight fouth of Vienna. 
M O'DON, afeaport-town on the fouth-weft coaft of the 
Morea. The harbour is large and fafe. It is the refidence 
of a pacha, and the fee of a Greek bilhop, fuffragan of 
Patras. Modon has feveral times changed mailers between 
the Venetians and the Turks, and underwent £ome levere 
lieges. It is eight miles fouth of Navarin, forty-two weft- 
fouth- weft of Mifitra, and twenty weft of Coron. Lat. 36. 
58. N. Ion. 21. 35. E. 
IvIOD'ONING, Hod'oning, or Go'ding, a town of Mo¬ 
ravia, in the circle of Brunn: fixteen miles eaft-fouth-eall 
of Aufpetz. 
MO'DRITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Brunn : 
three miles fouth of Brunn. 
MODRSAW', a town of Auftrian Poland, in the pala¬ 
tinate of Cracow : twenty-four miles weft of Cracow. 
MOD'RUSCH, a town of Auftrian Croatia, the fee of 
a bilhop -. twenty-four miles weft-north-weft of Sluin. 
To MOD'ULATE, v. a. [modulor , Lat.] To form founds 
to a certain key, or to certain notes.—The nole, lips, teeth, 
MOD 
palate, jaw, tongue, weafan, lungs, mufcles of the chcft, 
diaphragm, and mufcles of the belly, all ferve to make or 
modulate the found. Grow's Coj'mol. 
Echo propagates around 
Each charm of modulated found. Anon. 
MODULA'TION,^! [from modulate.] The a£t of form¬ 
ing any thing to certain proportion.—The fpeech, as it is 
a found refulting from the modulation of the air, has moll 
affinity to the fpirit; but, as it is uttered by the tongue, 
has immediate cognation with the. body, and fo is the 
fittell inftrument to manage a commerce between the in- 
vifible powers of human fouls clothed in flefh. Gov. oj' the 
Tongue. —Sound modulated ; harmony ; melody : 
Innumerous fongfters in the frelhening fliade 
Their modulations mix, mellifluous. Thomfon. 
MOD'ULATOR,/. He wffo forms founds to a certain 
key ; a tuner ; that which modulates.—The tongue is the 
grand inftrument of tafte, the faithful judge of all our 
nourilhment, the artful modulator of our voice, and the 
neceflary fervant of maftication.- Derham. 
MOD'ULE, j\ [Fr. from modulus, Lat.] An empty re- 
prefentation ; a model; an external form.—The module of 
Minerva’s temple in her own city. Dr. Bernard to Dr. 
Pococke. 
My heart hath one poor firing to flay it by. 
Which holds but till thy news be uttered ; 
And then, all this thou feell is but a clod, 
And module of confounded royalty. Shaltefpeare. 
In architecture, a certain meafure taken at pleafure, for 
regulating the proportions of columns, and the fymmetry 
or diftribution of the whole building. 
To MOD'ULE, v. a. \_modulor, Lat.] To model; to 
fhape ; to mould : 
O, would I could my father’s cunning ufe, 
And fouls into well -modul'd clay infufe. Sandijs's Ovul. 
To modulate. Both ohfolete: 
The nightingale, that charmer of the night, 
That moduleth her tunes fo admirably rare. Drayton. 
MODU'NDAH, a towm of Bengal : eighteen miles 
north-north-eaft of Calcutta. 
MO'DUS, J'. [Latin.] Something paid as a compenfa- 
tion for tithes, on the fuppofition of being a moderate 
equivalent.—One terrible circumftance of this bill, is 
turning the tithe of flax and hemp into what the lav/yers 
call a modus, or a certain fum in lieu of a tenth part of 
the produbl. Swift. 
Any means by w'hich the general law of tithing is al¬ 
tered, and a new'method of taking tithes'is introduced, is 
called a modus decimandi, or “ fpecial manner of tithing.” 
In order to make a good and fuflicient modus, the follow¬ 
ing rules muft be obferved : 1. It muft be certain and 
invariable. 1 Keh. 602. 2. The thing given, in lieu of 
tithes, muft be beneficial to the parfon, and not for the 
emolument of third perfons only. 1 Roll. Air. 649. 3. It 
muft be fomething different from the thing compounded 
for. 1 Lev. 179. 4. One cannot be difcharged from pay¬ 
ment of one fpecies of tithe, by paying a modus for an¬ 
other. Cro.Eliz. 446. Salk. 657. 5. The recompence muft 
be in its own nature as durable as the tithes difcharged 
by it; i. e. an inheritance certain. 2 P. IVms. 462. 6. The 
modus muft not be too large, which in law is called a rank 
modus. 11 Mod. Go. In thefe cafes of prefcription or cuf- 
tomary modufes, the law fuppofes an original real compo- 
fition to have been regularly made, wdiich being loft by 
length of time, the immemorial ufage is admitted as evi¬ 
dence to ftiow that it did once exift, and that from thence 
fuch ufage was derived. Now time of memory hath been 
long afcertained by the law, to commence from the reign, 
of Richard I. and any cuftom may be deftroyed by evi¬ 
dence of its non-exiftence in any part of the long period 
from his days to the prefent. Blackft. Comm. b. ii. 
MODYPOU'Rj 
