M O I 
MOI'LAH, or Calaat el Moilah, a fortrefs of Ara¬ 
bia Petrsa, on the coaft of the Red Sea : fixty miles fouth 
of Accaba. Lat. 28. 10. N. Ion. 39. 54. E. 
MOI'LON, f. A name given by the French to a kind 
of (lone that forms the upper cruli, and lies round the 
free-ftone in molt quarries. It is an excellent fubftance 
for forming the body of fluxes or foft enamel. 
MOIMEN'TA DE BEI'RA, a town of Portugal, in 
the province of Beira : thirteen miles fouth-weft of Caftel 
Rodrigo. 
MOIN, a river of Louifiana, which runs into the Mif- 
fiflippi in lat. 40. 5. N. Ion. 91. 54. W. 
MOINE, f. in the military art, a French term for a 
half-Iheet of paper, folded into two or four parts, with 
which is covered the train of gunpowder that ferves to 
fet fire to the faucilfon. James's Mil. Did. 
MOINE, a bay on the fouth coaft of Newfoundland : 
twenty-five miles eaft of Cape Ray. 
MOINE (John le), a French cardinal, who flourilhed 
in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and founded 
a coliege at Paris Called after his name, was a native of 
Creiiy, in Ponthieu. He was educated at the univerfity 
of Paris, where he ftudied divinity and the canon-law, and 
was admitted to the degree of doftor. After various pro¬ 
motions in the church, he was railed to the purple, either 
by pope Celeftine or by Boniface VIII. By the lall-men- 
tioned pontiff he was held in high efteem, and appointed 
his legate in France, at the time of his conteft with Philip 
the Fair. In this bulinefs the cardinal was ready to fa- 
crifice the interefts of the fovereign and of his country, 
that he might gratify the ambition of the court of Rome. 
Pie died at Avignon, in 1313. He was author of “A 
Commentary on the Sixth Book of the Decretals,” which 
is faid to difplay the knowledge and abilities of an able 
and profound canonift. It was printed at Paris in 1536, 
and at Venice in 1586. Moreri. 
MOINE (Peter le), a jeluit, the firft of his order who 
obtained a reputation for French poetry, was born of a 
good family at Chaumont in Balfigny in 1602. Pie en¬ 
tered into the fociety at feventeen, and continued to 
ferve it by his labours and writings till his death at Paris 
in 1671. The principal of his poetical works is his 
“Saint Louis, ou la Couronne reccnquife furies Infi- 
delles,” in eighteen books, which for a time flood high 
among the epic poems in the French language; being 
faid to difplay a vigorous imagination, and confiderable 
powers of poetical expreffion, but unregulated by judg¬ 
ment and good tafte. A fimilar character is given of his 
other poems upon facred and fecular topics, which, with 
the former, were printed collectively in one volume folio, 
in 1671. Boileau, when alked his opinion of le Moine, 
replied, that “ he had too much extravagance for his 
praife, and too much poetry for his cenfnre.” He was 
likewile a copious writer in profe, in which his ftyle and 
manner referable thofe of his verle. His work entitled 
“La Devotion aifee,” 1652, was much read and talked of 
at its appearance, and is laid to have produced more plea- 
fantry than edification. It is feverely animadverted upon 
by the writer of the Provincial Letters (Palchal), with 
whole gloomy and auftere notions of religion it was much 
at variance. Le Moine alfo wrote, Peint'ures morales; 
Traite de l’Hiftoire; Galerie des Femmes fortes; fome 
pieces in defence of his order; and other works now for¬ 
gotten. Moreri. 
MOINE (Stephen le), a.very learned French Protef- 
tant divine, was born at Caen in Normandy, in the year 
1724. Having laid in a good flock of elementary learn¬ 
ing at his native place, he was fent to Sedan, where 
he went through a courle of divinity under the ce¬ 
lebrated Du Moulin. From thence he went to Leyden 
to ftudy the oriental languages. Upon his return to 
France, in 1650, he was appointed pallor to the church 
of Gefofle. He afterwards removed to Rouen, where his 
zeal in maintaining Proteftant principles expofed him to 
the perlecution of the Catholics. In 1676 he left France, 
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came over to England, and was honoured with the de¬ 
gree of doftor by the univerfity of Oxford. From hence 
he pafled over to Holland, and obtained the profefibrlhip 
of divinity at Leyden, which he occupied with much re¬ 
putation during the reft of his life. In the year 1685, he 
publilhed a colle£lion of curious Greek treatifes, relating 
to ecclefiaftical hiftory, preceded by long prolegomena-, it 
was entitled “ Varia Sacra, feu Sylloge variorum Opufcu- 
lorum Grcecorum ad rem ecclefiafticam fpedtantium,” in 
2 vols.4to. In the year 1687, liefurnifiied to a colledlion 
of curious antiquarian refearches, by Gilbert Cuper, en¬ 
titled Harpocrates, &c. a dift’ertation on a particular de- 
fcripticn of Egyptian priefts who wore black robes, which 
is entitled, “ Epiflola de Melanophoris,” &c. He alfo 
publilhed a Latin verfion of a Greek fragment attributed 
to Jofephus, entitled, “ Fragmentum ex Libro de Uni- 
verfo fub Jofephi nomine quondam a. Davide Hrefchelio 
editum;” which was inferred, together with the original, 
in the edition of Jofephus publilhed at Oxford in the year 
1770. He died in 1689, in the 65th year of his age. He 
was profoundly {killed in facred antiquities, the Oriental, 
as well as Greek and Latin, languages ; and he was at the 
fame time well acquainted with the different branches of 
profane literature. He was admired for his prodigious 
ftrength of memory, and univerfally refpedled for his dif- 
intereftednefs, candour, benevolence, and peaceable dil- 
pofition. After his death, Solomon Van Til publilhed 
from his manufcripts “ Diflertatio theologica ad locum 
Jeremias xxiii. 1. dejehova Jufticianoftra,&c.” 1700, 121110. 
Gen. Blog. 
MOINE (Francis le), an eminent French painter, was 
born at Paris in 1 588 . His ambition led him to the high- 
eft branch of the art; and he was firft employed in fome 
Scripture-pieces for the refedlory of the cordeliers of 
Amiens. He obtained leveral prizes from the Academy 
of Painting, and in 1718 was admitted a member of that 
body. The diftrefles of the time having caufed a fufperi- 
lion of the millions of young artills to Italy, it was not 
till 1724 that he was enabled to vifit that country, and 
then only for fix months. He employed them, however, 
fo well, that he returned greatly improved in his art. 
The academy foon after nominated him a profeffor; and 
he was chofen to paint in frefco the cupola of the Virgin’s 
Chapel in the church of St. Sulpice. This work, which 
occupied him three years, raifed him to the fummit of re¬ 
putation. He married in 1730 the daughter of a painter, 
by whom he had no children. Pie was then appointed 
to paint the grand faloon at the entrance of the apart¬ 
ments of Verlailles, and chofe for his fubjedt the Apo- 
theoiis of Hercules. This is the moil confiderable of his 
performances, and is accounted the bell proof of the pro- 
grels of painting in France under Louis XIV. It coft 
him four years of continued labour ; and, when finilhed, 
it gave fo much fatisfadlion to the king, that he conferred 
upon le Moine the place of his firft painter, and gave him. 
a penfion of 3500 livres, in addition to one of fix hundred 
which he before enjoyed. The great bodily fatigue he 
had undergone during fieven years, in painting thele two 
ceilings in a reverted pollute, together with the mental 
execution in defigning them, almoft entirely exhaufted 
him; and the lofs of his wife added to the deprefiion of 
his fpirits. He killed himfelf in June 1737, at the age of 
49. This mailer was unequalled by any French artift in 
his time for the frelhnefis of his pencil and delicacy of his 
lirokes. His outlines are flowing, the airs of heads grace¬ 
ful and expreflive, his touch light, and his tints extremely 
lively, lie is fometimes incurred, but his deviations 
produce great beauties. His works are chiefly in the 
churches and palaces in and near Paris; fome of the 
fmaller pieces are in private cabinets. About thirty of 
his paintings hafe been engraved. D'Argenville. 
MOINE (Abraham le), a French proteftant divine, 
who v'as born towards the dole of the feventeenth cen¬ 
tury, and became a refugee in England on account of his 
religion. He officiated as minifter to a French church at 
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