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MOLLARU', a town of Hindooftan, in the eircar of 
Rajamundry: forty-five miles north-eaft of Rajamundry. 
MOL'LE, a town of Norway, in the province of Dront- 
lreim. Lat. 62.48. N. Ion. 7. 36. E. 
MOL'LE, f. in botany. See Schinus. 
MOL'LEN, a town of the duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg: 
twenty-two miles north-north-eaft of Lauenburg, and fix 
louth of Lubeck. 
MOL'LEN BECK, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Schauenburg: three miles weft-north-weft ol Rinteln. 
MOL'LER (Henry), a learned German Lutheran di¬ 
vine, was born at Hamburgh in the year 1530. He offi¬ 
ciated for lome time as paftor to a church in the land- 
graviate of Hefle, with very high reputation, and was 
honoured with the degree of doftor of divinity. He was 
celebrated for his Ikill in biblical literature, and particu¬ 
larly excelled in his knowledge of the Hebrew and Chaldee 
languages. During fourteen years he filled the chair of 
profelTor of the Greek and Oriental tongues in the uni- 
verfity of Wirtemberg; of which he appears to have been 
deprived for refilling fubmiffion to the famous Form ol 
Concord. He died at his native place in 1589, in the 
fixtieth year of his age. He was the author of Commen¬ 
taries on the Book of Pfalms, and the Prophecy of Ifai'ah, 
which are faid to poflels great merit; and he alfo wrote 
fome Latin poems. Freheri Theatrum Vir. Erud. Clar. 
MOL'LERSTORFF, a town of Aullria: four miles 
eaft-north-eafi: of Baden. 
MOLLERU'SA, a town of Spain, in Catalonia: ten 
miles eaft-north-eafi: of Lerida. 
MOL'LEVILLE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Seine: twelve miles north-north-eaft of 
Caudebec. 
MOL'LIA, / in botany. See Imbricaria. 
MOL'LIDON, a town of Hindooftan, in the Dooab: 
eighteen miles north-north-weft of Etaya. 
MOL'LIENS-VIDA'ME, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Somme, and chief place ol a canton, in 
the diftrift of Amiens. The place contains 836, and the 
canton 12456, inhabitants. 
MOL'LIENT, adj. Softening. 
MOL'LIFIABLE, adj. [from mollify.'] That may be 
foftened. 
MOLLIFICA'TION, f. The aft of mollifying or foft- 
ening.—For induration or mollification, it is to be in¬ 
quired what will make metals harder and harder, and 
what will make them fofter and fofter. Bacon.- —Paci¬ 
fication ; mitigation. — Some mollification, fweet lady. 
Shakefpeare. 
MOLLIF'ICATIVE, adj. Having a tendency to mol¬ 
lify. Cole. 
MOL'LIFIER, f. That which foftens ; that which ap- 
peafes.—The root hath a tender dainty heat; which, when 
it cometh above ground to the fun and air, vanifheth; for 
it is a great mollfier. Bacon’s Fat. Hifi. —He that pacifies 
or mitigates.—The lord-treafurer ever fecretly feigned 
himfelf to be a moderator and mollfier of the catholicks’ 
affliftions. Letter of 1592 in Ld. Halifax’s Mfeel. 
To MOL'LIFY, v. a. [mollio , Lat. mollir, Fr.] To foften; 
to make loft.—In the time of king Richard the Second, 
the language was fo mollified, that it came to be thus, as 
it is in the tranflation of Wicliffe. Camden's Rem. —Thou 
raineft upon us, and yet doll not always mollify all our 
hardnefs. Donne. —To afluage.—Neither herb nor molli¬ 
fying plaifter reftored them to health. Wifd. xvi .12.—Sores 
have not been clofed, neither bound up, neither mollified 
with ointment. Ifa. i. 6.—To appeale; to pacify ; to quiet. 
•—Thinking her filent imaginations began to work upon 
fomewhat to mollify them, as the nature of mufick is to 
do, I took up my harp. Sidney. 
He brought them to thefe favage parts, 
And with fweet Icience mollified their ftubborn hearts. 
Spenfer. 
To qualify; to leffen any thing harfli or burdenfome.— 
They would, by yieldingfto fome things, when they re- 
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fufed others, fooner prevail with the houfes to mollify 
their demands, than at firft to reform them. Clarendon. 
MOL'LIFYING, f. The aft of making foft. 
MOLLIN'CHES, a river of Bengal, which runs into 
the bay in lat. 21.42. N. Ion. 89. 26. E. 
MOL'LINER, /; [from molo, Lat. to grind.] A fmalJ 
muller for grinding colours. 
MOL'LINGEN. See Mellingen. 
MOL'LIS, a town of Swilferland, in the canton of 
Glarus: two miles north of Glarus. 
MOLLOY' (Charles), a mifcellaneous writer, was de¬ 
fended from a good family in the kingdom of Ireland, 
and was himfelf born in the city of Dublin, and received 
part of his education at Trinity-college there, of which 
he afterwards became a fellow. At his firft coming'to 
England he entered himfelf of the Middle Temple, "and 
was fuppofed to have had a very confiderable hand in the 
writing of a periodical paper, called Fog’s Journal; as 
alfo fince that time to have been almoft the l’ole author 
of another well-known paper, entitled Common Senfe. All 
thefe papers give teftimony of ilrong abilities, great depth 
of underftanding, and clearnefs of reafoning. Molloy had 
large offers made him to write in defence of fir Robert 
Walpole, but thefe he rejefted: notwithftanding which, 
at the great change in the minillry in 1742, he was en¬ 
tirely neglefted. Mr. Molloy, however, having married 
a lady of fortune, was in circumltances which enabled 
him to treat the ingratitude of his patriotic friends with 
the contempt it deferved. He lived many years after this 
period, dying on the 16th of July, 1767. 
He alfo wrote three dramatic pieces ; viz. the Perplexed 
Couple, and the Coquet, comedies; and the Half-pay 
Officers, a farce. Connefted with this laft piece, Whin- 
cop relates the following anecdote. There was, fays that 
writer, one thing very remarkable at the reprelentation of 
this farce. The part of an old grandmother was performed 
by Mrs. Fryer, who was then eighty-five years of age, and 
had quitted the ftage ever fince the reign of Charles II. 
It was put in the bills, “ The part of Lady Richlove to be 
performed by Peg Fryer, who has not appeared upon the 
ftage thefe fifty yearswhich drew together a great houle. 
The charafter in the .farce was fuppofed to be a very old 
woman, and Peg went through it very well, as if file had 
exerted her utmoft abilities ; but, the farce being ended, 
file was brought again upon the ftage to dance a jig, which 
had been promifed in the bills. She came tottering in, as 
if ready to fall, and made two or three pretended offers to 
go out again ; but all on a fudden, the mufic ftriking up 
the Irilh Trot, file danced and footed it almoft as nimbly 
as any wench of five-and-Iwenty could have done. This 
woman afterwards let up a public-houfe at Tottenham 
Court, and great numbers frequently went to fatisfy their 
curiofity in feeing fo extraordinary a perfon. 
This ftory recalls to mind a very extraordinary parti¬ 
cular, fomewhat of the like kind, in the life of the cele¬ 
brated Michael Baron, the Garrick or the Betterton of 
the French nation. That great aftor, having on fome oc- 
cafion taken dilguft at fomething he had met with in the 
courfe of his profeffion, quitted the ftage, although at 
that time in the very height of his reputation. He con¬ 
tinued in a private and retired manner for many years; 
after which, at a time of life when moll men would have 
found their faculties abating, and been retiring, if pofii- 
ble, from the hurry of public bufinefs, he returned to the 
ftage with renewed vigour and improved abilities; rofe 
to a higher rank of fame than even that which he had 
before obtained, playing the youngeft and moll fpirited 
charafters with unabated vivacity ; and continuing fo to 
do for many years afterwards, till death lhatched him 
away in a very advanced age. Thefe anecdotes will alfo 
remind the reader of the various re-appearances that have 
happened within our own memory ; luch as fignora Galli, 
Mifs Brent, Mrs. Bellamy, &c. but thefe were under cir- 
cumltances of diftrefs—diltrefs to the parties, diftrefs to 
the audience and lpeftators. 
MOLLU'GO, 
