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taon on the controverfy; which, however, he thought 
proper to withhold, influenced, probably, by his appre¬ 
hension of offending either the king of Franee, who pro- 
r.edlcd the Jefuits, or the king of Spain, who warmly 
maintained the caufe of the Dominicans. Mofheim's Hiji. 
Eccl. fee. xvii. with Maclaine's Notes. 
MOLFNA (Anthony de), a Spanifh Carthufian monk, 
whole writings are held in efteem by Catholics, was a na¬ 
tive of Villa-Nueva de los Infantes in Caftille. He fir ft 
took the monaftic habit among the hermits of St. Au- 
guftine at Salamanca, in 1575, and, after filling the divi¬ 
nity chair for fome time in their feminaries, became fu- 
perior of one of their houfes. Afterwards he renounced 
that order, and entered a convent of Carthufians in the 
diocefe of Burgos, where he fpent the remainder of his 
da3's, wholly occupied in ftudy, devotion, and the exer- 
cile of the molt rigorous aufterities of the cloifter. He 
died in the year 5619, He was the author of fome devo¬ 
tional and practical treatifes, in the Spanifh language ; 
but he is chiefly celebrated for a treatile “ On the Edu¬ 
cation of Priells,” which underwent more than twenty 
impreffions in his native country, and has been repeatedly 
printed in the Latin, French, Englilh, and Italian, lan¬ 
guages. Antonii Bibl. Hifp. 
MOLVNA,/. in botany. See G/ertnera, vol. viii. 
MOLINZE'A, J. in botany. See Cupania tomentofa, 
vol. V. 
MOLI'NE, adj. in heraldry, belonging to a crofs a 
little turned round at the ends both ways. 
MOLI'NE’s GUT', a river on the fouth-weft coaft of 
the illand of St. Chriftopher, with anchorage near its 
mouth in five and ten fathoms. 
MOLINEL'LI (Peter-Paul), an eminent furgeon,born 
in 1702, was profeffor of medicine and lurgery in the 
univerfity of Bologna, a member of the Inllitute of that 
city, firft furgeon to the hofpital, and a foreign alfociate 
of the Royal Academy of Surgery in Paris. He died in 
1764. He communicated to the Inftitute of Bologna fe- 
veral valuable papers on chirurgical fubjedts, printed in 
its Tranfadlions; and he publiihed in 1756 a diflertation 
“ De Aneuryfmate a fefa bracchii in mittendo fanguine 
arteria,” called by Haller an excellent little work. He 
made fome remarks on Petit’s mode of opening the la¬ 
chrymal dudts in the fiftula lachrymalis, w'hich tended to 
perfeft that operation, and alfo to lhow where it was 
inapplicable. Hulleri Bib/. Chirurg. 
MOLINET' (Claude du), a learned French ecclefiaftic 
and antiquary, was defeended from an ancient and noble 
family, and born at Chalons in Champagne, in the year 
1 620. After having been inftrudted in the rudiments of 
-learning at his native place, he was fent to Paris to go 
through his courfe of philofophy. Here he entered among 
the canons-regular of St. Genevieve, of the order of St. 
Auguftine, and afterwards became attorney-general of 
that congregation. The fraternity were defirous of rail¬ 
ing him to offices of higher dignity; but his humility 
and love of ftudy induced him conftantjy to decline them. 
Medals and antiquities of various kinds w'ere his favour¬ 
ite fubjedis of purfuit; anti, having been attached to 
them from his early years, he had coliedled a confiderable 
cabinet, which he annexed to the library of St. Genevieve, 
together with other rarities and curiofities. He W'as em¬ 
ployed by Louis XIV. to arrange his cabinet of medals, 
and augment their number, as well as to purchafe agates 
and other precious ftones, of which father du Molinet 
was a good judge. He added above eight hundred me¬ 
dals to his majefty’s collection, and rvas remunerated by 
noble marks of the king’s liberality. He died in 1687, 
about the age of fixty-feven. He was the author of very 
learned notes to an edition of the Letters of Stephen 
bfihop of Tournay, 1679, 8vo._ 2. Hiftoria Summorum 
Pontificum a Martino V, ad Innocentium XI. per eorum 
Numifmata, 1679, folio. 3. The Cabinet of the Library 
of St. Genevieve, 1692, folio. 4. Refleftions on the Ori¬ 
gin of Secular Canons, and on the Antiquity of Canons- 
regular, &c. with a Dilcourfe on the ancient and modern 
Von, XV. No. 1071. 
6 : 2.9 
Habits of Canons, both fecular and regular; 1666, 4to. 
5. A Diflertation on the Mitre of the Ancients; and 
another on the Head of Ills, found at Paris, &c._ which 
dilplay much learned and curious refearch, and will afford 
gratification to antiquarians. Morct'i. 
MOLINET'TI (Antony), an eminent phyfician and 
anatomill, was a native of Venice, where his father prac- 
tifed as a furgeon. He ftudied and graduated in medi¬ 
cine at Padua ; and rendered himfelf confpicuous for his 
fuccefis in medical practice, and his {kill in anatomical 
difteftions. His reputation caufed him to be invited in 
1649 to the profefforfhip of anatomy and furgery in Pa¬ 
dua, as fucceflor to Veflingius. In 1661 he was alfo, by 
fpecial favour, nominated to the chair of the theory of 
medicine; and he occupied both profelforfliips with equal 
celebrity. At the fame time he was in great fame as a 
practical phyfician, and was frequently fent for to the 
principal towns in Italy, and even beyond the limits of 
that country. He was confulted for the dukes of Bavaria 
and Parma, and is faid to have died, in 1675, at the court 
of the latter; though another account aflerts that he 
finifhed his days at Venice. Molinetti is reported to have 
been of a prefumptuous difpofition, and too much at¬ 
tached to his own opinions and merits to do juftice to 
thofe of his rivals. His works, however, have given him 
the reputation of a diligent difledtor and an acute ob- 
ferver. They are, 1. Diilertationes Anatomicre & Patho¬ 
logies de Senfibus & eorum Organis; 4to. 1669. 2. Dif- 
fertationes Anatomico-pathologicoe; 4to. 1675. In the 
latter are feveral ufeful practical obfervations. He fpeaks 
of the Taliacotian operation of the reftoration of nofes 
as having been fuccefsfully performed by his father. 
Iialleri Bibl. 
MOL'INEUX’s HAR'BOUR, a bay on the fouth-eaft 
coaft of Tavai Poenammoo, the fouthern illand of New 
Zealand. Lat. 46. 24. S. Ion. 189. 50. W. 
MOLIN'GES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Jura: four miles fouth-weft of Claude, and eleven 
fouth-eaft of Orgelet. 
MOLINI'ER (John-Baptift), a celebrated French pul¬ 
pit-orator, was born at Arles, about the year 1675. He 
commenced his ftudies at his native place ; and, having 
palled through the ufual courfe of a liberal education, he 
embraced the ecclefiaftical life. His theological courfe he 
completed at Arles; and, in 1700, entered into the Con¬ 
gregation of the Oratory at Aix. He filled with reputa¬ 
tion different polls in the colleges belonging to the fo- 
ciety; and made the firft dilcovery of his talents for the 
miniftry at Grenoble, in pronouncing a funeral oration 
for cardinal de Camus. He was now frequently fent to 
exercife his abilities in this line in fome of the princi¬ 
pal cities of the kingdom, particularly at Paris. The 
celebrated Mafiilon, having heard him foon after his 
arrival at Paris, was greatly ftruck with the lively traits 
and fallies of his eloquence, and at the fame time fur- 
prifecl at his inequalities. He is faid to have told him, 
that it wmuld be owing to himfelf if he did not prove an 
acceptable preacher to perfons of all ranks, from the 
lowell to the higheft. It is allowed, that when he be¬ 
llowed fufficient ftudy on his fermons, he rivalled the 
moll celebrated orators of his time ; but he was too apt 
to fuller himlelf to be carried away by the livelinefs of 
his imagination. Notwithstanding his faults, however, 
he was for a long time followed and admired by crowded 
auditories. In 1720, Molinier quitted the Congregation 
of the Oratory, and retired to the diocefe of Sens; whence, 
after an abfence of fome years, he returned to Paris, where 
he refumed his office of preacher, till he vras prohibited 
from appearing in the pulpit by the archbilhop of that 
fee; but on what account we are not informed. He died 
in 1745, about the age of feventy. He was the author of, 
1. Seledl Sermons, publiihed in 1730, and following years, 
in 14 vols. 12mo. but without his name. Their ltyle is 
very incorredt and unequal; and, while theyprelent us 
with paflages diltinguilhed by genius, energy, and fubli- 
mity, thefe are ftrangely contrafted with others, in . the 
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