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There is no want of venifon ; but there arelikewife wolves, 
bears, leopards, and beavers. In the circle of Brunn, are 
quarries of marble, baftard diamonds, amethyfts, and 
other minerals; in the circle of Znaym, were formerly 
mines of gold ; and, at this day, are forae of iron, lulphur, 
falt-petre, and vitriol. Here and there are fome mineral 
fprings, which are impregnated with fulphur, alum, vi¬ 
triol, and laltpetre ; and there are likewife acid fprings, 
but fait they want. The number of towns, villages, and 
market-towns, in Moravia, has been eftimated at 2550. 
The language of the inhabitants is a dialeft of the Scla¬ 
vonic, and little differing from the Bohemian ; but the 
German is moft common. Chriftianity was introduced 
fo early as the eighth century. The whole country is of 
the Roman-catholic church, and fubjeCl to the ecclefiafti- 
cal jurifdiftion of the bifhop of Olmutz. The principal 
articles of commerce confift in their manufactures of 
cloth, iron, glafs, paper, gunpowder, &c. which, on the 
whole, are confiderable. 
Moravia was anciently inhabited by the Quadi, who 
were driven out by the Sclavi. While belonging to the 
latter, it was of greater extent than at prelent. The 
kings of this country were, till the ninth century, power¬ 
ful and independent; but in the time of Charlemagne 
they became his vaflals. In 1086 Moravia was declared a 
marquifate, and united with Bohemia. The whole, mar- 
quifate is divided into fix circles, each of which has its 
captain, whole authority extends to the quartering, march¬ 
ing, and maintenance, of the foldiers. The capital is 
Olmutz. 
MORA'VIAN, adj. Denoting, or belonging to, the 
feft of Moravians.—I thought it would anfwer the fame 
purpofe, Ihould I confult the writings of the Moravian 
leaders. JRimius. 
MORA'VIANS, Herrnhutters, or United Bre¬ 
thren. See Unitas Fratrum. —The Moravians who 
retired to Herrnhutt, and who are the moll inconfider- 
able part of the inhabitants of that village, have nothing 
common with the ancient Bohemian and Moravian bre¬ 
thren. JRimius's Narrative of the Herrnhutters, 1753.—A 
conformity has been Ihewn between 3 Ioravians and Pa- 
pifts. Bp. Lavington's Moravians compared, 1755. 
MORA'WEN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Chrudim: fix miles north-eaft of Chrudim. 
M.ORAWI'CA, a town of Poland, in Volhynia: eigh¬ 
teen miles fouth-eaft of Lucko. 
MORA'Y. See Murray. 
MORA'YA, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of La Plata: 
feventy miles eaft of Lipes. 
MORBEG'NO, a town of the Grifons, and capital of 
a diftridt, in the Valteline, on the fouth fide of the Adda. 
It is the refidence of a bailiff, who has the title of podejia: 
twenty-five miles north of Bergamo, and twelve fouth- 
eaft of Chiavenna. 
MOR'BEN, or Mor'ven, a mountain of Scotland, in 
the county of Perth : twelve miles weft-fouth-weft of 
Crieff. 
MORBEY'A, a river of Morocco, which runs into the 
Atlantic near Azamor. 
MOR'BID, f. [from morbus, Lat. a difeafe.] Difeafed; 
in a ftate contrary to health.—Though every human con- 
ftitution is morbid, yet are there dileafes confiftent with 
the common functions of life. Arhuthnot. 
MORBID'ERY, a town of Hindooftan, in Canara : 
thirteen miles north of Mangalore. 
MORBIDEZ'ZA, j. [Italian.] Tendernefs; foftnefs 5 
effeminacy. Cole. 
MORBID'ITY, f. The ftate of being difeafed. Scott. 
MOR'BIDNESS, f. The ftate of being difeafed. 
MORBIF'IC, or Morbif'ical, adj. \_morbusa.nAfacio, 
Lat.] Caufing difeafes.—Some ftrange»ior&/^c«Zdiftemper 
of the air. Whitlock .—Nothing but the removal of the fe- 
verifh and morbifick matter within can carry off the dis¬ 
temper. South. 
MQRBIHA'N, a river or canal of France, which com- 
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municates- with the fea from Vannes, and gives name to a 
department. 
MORBIHA'N, a department of France, bounded on 
the north by the department of the North Coafts, on the 
eaft by the department of the Ille and Vilaine, on the 
fouth-eaft by the department of the Lower Loire, on the 
fouth-weft by the fea, and on the weft by the department 
of Finifterre. It is feventy-two miles in length, and 
about thirty-five in breadth ; containing 403,4.23 inhabi¬ 
tants. Vannes is the capital. 
MORBIL'LI, f. An appellation given to the mealies 
by the Italian phyficians, fignifying, as it were, a little 
plague; for il moi-bo (the dileale) was, in their language, 
applied to the plague. 
MORBO'SE, adj. [morbofus , Lat.] Proceeding from 
difeafe; not healthy.—Malphighi, under galls, compre¬ 
hends all preternatural and morboje tumours and excref- 
cences of plants. Ray on Creation. 
MORBOS'ITY,/ Difeafed ftate. Not in uje. —The in¬ 
ference is fair, from the organ to the adlion, that they 
have eyes, therefore fome fight w\as defigned, if we ex¬ 
cept the cafual impediments or morbojities in individuals. 
Brown. 
MOR'BULENT, adj. [morbulentus , Lat.] Full of dif¬ 
eafe ; fickly. Scott. 
MOR'BUS.y! [Latin.] Adiftemper; a difeafe. 
MORCHEL'LA, /! the Morel. See Phallus. 
MORCIA'NO, a town of Naples, in the province of 
Otranto : four miles fouth of Aleffano. 
MORCO'NE, a town of Naples, in the county of Mo- 
life : nineteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Molife. 
MOR'CZA, a town of Auftrian Poland, in the king¬ 
dom of Galicia,: twelve miles fouth of Halicz. 
MOR/COTE, a town Swifferland : feven miles fouth of 
Lugano. 
MORDA'CIOUS, adj. [mordax, Lat.] Biting; apt to 
bite.—Many of thefe [compofts] are not only lenfibly hot, 
but mordacious and burning. Evelyn. 
MORDA'CIOUSLY, adv. Bitingly ; farcaftically.— 
Buchanan, a learned, though violent, Scot, has mordaci- 
ovjly taunted this tradition. Waterhous on Fortej'cue. 
MORDA'CITY, J\ Biting quality.—It is to be en¬ 
quired, whether there be any menftruum to diflolve any 
metal that is not fretting or corroding, and openeth the 
body by lympathy, and not by mordacity, or violent pe¬ 
netration. Bacon - 
MOR'DANT, J'. [Fr. biting.] In dyeing, a fubftance 
employed to increafe the permanence and beauty of the 
various colouring matter. In the more general fenle, a 
mordant is confidered as an intermediate fubftance to in¬ 
creafe the affinity of the colouring matter for the fubftance 
to be dyed. Other fubftances are alio called mordants, 
which have merely the effect of increafing the intenlity 
and brightnefs of the colour, or, as the dyers term it, to 
bring it out. Seethe article Dying, vol. vi. p. 145. 
MORDAU'NT (Charles), Earl of Peterborough and 
Monmouth, a diftinguifhed and fingular character in 
Englilh hiftory, was the eldeft fon of John vifcount Ava¬ 
lon, and Elizabeth Carey. He was born in 1662 ; and 
was brought up to the fea-fervice under the admirals 
Torrington and Narborough in the Mediterranean. In 
1680 he fignalized his courage at Tangier, then beiieged 
by the Moors. Having lucceeded his father in his title, 
he fpoke in the houle of peers againft the repeal of the 
teft-afl, which James II. endeavoured to promote; and, 
difapproving -the meafures purified by that infatuated 
prince, he obtained leave to go to Holland, under the 
pretext of taking the command of a Dutch fquadron in 
the Weft Indies. At the Hague he was one of the firft of 
the Englilh nobility that engaged in the deligns of the 
prince of Orange, who paid great deference to his advice, 
and whom he accompanied in his expedition to England. 
This attachment was rewarded, on the accellion of Wife 
liam III. by a feat in the privy-council, and the place of 
one of the lords of the bed-chamber. In 1689, he was ap¬ 
pointed. 
