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MONSTRIFTROUS, ajj. [from the Lat. monjlrum, 
and fc.ro, to bear.] Producing monfters. Scott. 
MONSTRIKTCABLE, adj. Monftrous, made mon- 
ftrous. Scott. 
MONSTROSITY, or Monstruos'ity, f. The Rate 
of being monftrous, or out of the common order of the 
univerie.—This is the moiflruofity in love, that the will 
js infinite, and the execution confin’d. Shakefpeure's Tr. 
imd Crcff. —We read of monftrous births, but we often 
fee a greater monjh'ofity in educations : thus, when a fa¬ 
ther has begot a man, he trains him up into a beaft. South's 
Sermons. —By the law, monftrofity could not incapacitate 
from marriage ; witnefs the cafe of hermaphrodites. Ar- 
liutliuot and Pope. 
MON'STROUS, adj. Deviating from the Rated order 
of nature.—Every thing that exifts has its particular con- 
ftitution ; and yet fome monftrous productions have iew.of 
thofe qualities which accompany the effence of that fpecies 
from whence they derive their originals. Lockc. 
Nature, there perverfe, 
Brought forth all monjlrous, all prodigious, things. 
Hydras, and gorgons, and chimeras dire. Milton. 
Strange; wonderful. Generally with fome degree of 
diflike.—O mmiftrons ! but one halfpenny-worth of bread 
to this intolerable deal of fack. Shakefpcare. 
Is it not monftrous that this player here 
But in a fidbion, in a dream of pafiion, 
Could force his foul fo unto his conceit, 
That, from her working, all his vifage wan’d ? Shahefp. 
Irregular; enormous : 
No monjlrous height, or breadth, or length, appear ; 
The whole at once is bold and regular. Pope. 
Shocking; hateful.—This was an invention given out by 
the Spaniards, to fave the monjlrous fcorn their nation re¬ 
ceived. Baco7i. —Full of monfters : 
Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide, 
Vifit’ft the bottom of the monjlrous world. Milton Lycidas. 
MON'STROUS, adv. Exceedingly; very much. A cant 
term. —Oil of vitriol and petroleum, a dram of each, turn 
into a mouldy fubftance, there refiding a fair cloud in the 
bottom, and a inonjlrous thick oil on the top. Bacon. —She 
was eafily put off the hooks, and tnonjlrous hard to be 
pleafed again. L'Ffh'ange. 
Add, that the rich have ftill a gibe in ftore. 
And will be inonjh-ous witty on the poor. Dryden's Juv. 
MON'STROUSLY, adv. In a manner out of the com¬ 
mon order of nature ; ftiockingly ; terribly ; horribly, 
i—Tiberius was bad enough in liis youth, but fuperla- 
tively and morfiroujhy fo i n his old age. South's Sermons. 
—To a great or enormous degree: 
Thefe truths with his example you difprove, 
Who with his wife is movjlroufy in love. Dryden. 
MON'STROUSNESS, f. Enormity; irregular nature or 
behaviour.—Oh! how I hate the 7 no 7 ftrouJ'neJ's of time! 
JB. JonJbn's Every Man out of his Humour. 
See the monfir onjncfs of man, 
When he looks out in an ungrateful ffiape ! Shaktfpeare. 
MONSUZAI'N, a town of France, in the department 
of the Aube : nine miles north of Troyes. 
MONT, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segcftan : 
ninety miles north-weft of Zareng. 
MONT, a town of France, in the department of the 
Saone and Loire : three miles eaft of Bourbon Lancy. 
MONT (Henry du), a voluminous ecclefiaftical com- 
poferof mufic, and maltre de chapelle to the king of 
France, was born at Liege in 1610. He publiflied at Paris 
in 1651, Cantica facra ; in 1681, Motets in four parts, 5 
yols. and, in 1686, other Motets for the chapelle royale, 
in 16 vols. Du Mont was a great organ-player, and the 
M O N 
firft, fays M. Laborde, who introduced the haffe continue, 
or thorough-bale, into France. The time of his death is 
not known. 
MONT d’ASTARAC', a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Gers : fourteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Mirande, and fix fouth of Maffeube. 
MONT BENOI'T, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Doubs : feven miles north-north-eaft of P011- 
tarlier, and thirteen eaft-fouth-eaft of Ornans. 
MONT BLAN'C, a mountain of Swifferland, fuppofed 
to be the higheft in Europe. See Blanc, vol. iii.- p. 88, 9. 
Savoy was, during its union with France, called the de¬ 
partment of Mont Blanc ; but of this whole department, 
as well as thofe of Mont Tonnerre and Mont Terrible, 
France was deprived at the peace of 1815. 
MONT BLANC, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Catalonia: fifteen miles north of Tarragon. Lat. 41.20. N. 
Ion. 1. 5. E. 
MONT BUE'T, a mountain of Swifferland, 10,000 feet 
above the level of the lea. 
MONT CAVI'TA, a town of the illand of Cuba : 
twenty miles eaft of Villa del Principe. 
MONT DAUPHIN', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Higher Alps, fituated on a rock, almoft lur- 
rounded by the Here. It is the refidence of a governor, 
and a garrifon. It is fifteen miles louth of Briangon, and 
three north of Embrun. 
MONT FAU'CHE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Nyevre: eleven miles north of Chateau 
Chinon. 
MONT GENE'VRE, a mountain between France and 
Savoy. ■“ 
MONT JAVOU'LT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Oife : five miles fouth-weft of Chaumont. 
MO'NT-JOIE, f. [Fr. the mount of joy, or of vidlory.] 
A heap of ftones piled up by a French army formerly, in 
token of a vidtory gained near the fpot. According to 
Bailey, is alfo a name by which Frenchmen call heaps of 
ftones laid together by pilgrims, in which they flick croffes 
when they are come within view of the end of their jour¬ 
ney ; and hence thofe betwixt St. Denis and Paris, are 
called St. Dennis’s Mont-joyes. 
Mont-joie Sain r Denis, was alfo afort of war-whoop, 
which was pradlifed during the reigns of the firft kings of 
France. A French writer obferves, that fo many tradi¬ 
tions and accounts have been given of its origin, and thofe 
fo contradidlory among them [elves, that the leaft faid is 
the bell. This cry or war-whoop was adopted under 
Louis-le-Gros, and was wholly laid afide under Henry IV. 
See the article Heraldry, vol. ix. p. 409. 
MONT LO'IS, or Mont Lou'is, a town of France, in 
the department of the Indre and Loire. It is fituated be¬ 
tween the Loire and the Cher : nine miles eaft-fouth-eaft 
of Tours. 
MONT LOUTS, a town of France, in the department 
of the Eaftern Pyrenees ; built in the year 1681, by order 
of Louis XIV. The town is well laid out, and ftrongly 
fortified with a citadel, arfenal, magazines, &c. It is fif¬ 
teen miles weft-fouth-weft of Prades, and eleven eaft- 
north-eaft of Puycerda. 
MONT MARSAN', a town of France, and principal 
place of a diftridt, in the department of the Landes, founded 
in the year 1120. It contains about 4000 inhabitants: 
fifty-one miles north-weft of Bayonne, and fifty-fix fouth 
of Bourdeaux. Lat. 43. 53. N. lon.o. 26. E. 
MONT MORILLO'N, a town of France, and principal 
place of a diftridt, in the department of the Vienne, on 
the Gartempe. It contains about 2000 inhabitants: 
twenty-two miles fouth-eaft of Poitiers, and twenty-fix 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Chatellerault. Lat.46.26,N. lon.o. 
57- E- 
MONT d’O'R, a mountain of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Puy de Dome, about 1030 toifes above the 
level of the earth, abounding in curious plants and mi¬ 
neral lprings. 
MONT 
