790 M O R 
MOR'DINGTON, a town of Scotland, in the county 
of Berwick: five miles fouth of Eyemouth. 
MORDOCHE'US, a man’s name. Apocr. 
MORDO'VA, a town of RufTia, in the government of 
Tambov: thirty-two miles fouth-eaft of Tambov. 
MORD'VINES, a nation of the Ruffian empire, called 
by the Ruffians Mordva, and dwelling on the Oka and 
Volga, in the governments of Kazan, Nifhnei-Novgorod, 
Ufa, Simbirfk, and Penfa. Although they are not fo nu¬ 
merous as the Tfcheremiffes and Tlchuvaiches, they form 
a very confiderable nation, which has been found to in- 
creafe on every fucceffive enumeration, and divide them- 
felves into two main Items, Mokfclian and Erfan, by 
which they are peculiarly named ; though the general ap¬ 
pellation of Mordva is not unufual even among tliem- 
fielves. This nation, in the opinion of feveral Ruffian 
antiquarians, is the fame which Neftor mentions under the 
names of Meres, or Meranes, on occafion of the national 
confederacy entered into by the five Sclavonian and Fin- 
nifh tribes on the lake liman for the founding of the 
Ruffian date, and who, at that time, inhabited the dif- 
tridts of Roitof, Halitfch, Koftroma, and Yaroflaf. Toohe's 
Raffia, vol. i. 
MORDYSEE'R, a town of Hindooftan, on the coaft 
Canara: ten miles fouth of Onore. 
MORE, adj. [mape, Sax. the comparative of fome, or 
great. Johnfon. —Mr. Tooke views the Sax. mope, a heap, 
as the radical word; fuppofing the Sax. ma, Engl, mo, to 
be the pofitive ; Sax. mape, Engl, more, the comparative ; 
and Sax. maef**:, Engl, mojl, the fuperlative. But, not to 
fay that mope does not feem to have been ufed to denote 
quantity in general, or applied to perfons, the hypothefis 
labours under feveral confiderable difficulties. The firft 
is, that mo never occurs in Saxon, but always ma; which 
has been corruptly changed in later times into mo, like 
many other words originally written with a. Befides this, 
the Sax. ma is as really a comparative as mare, both being 
ufed adverbially in the fenfe of plus, inagis. As an ad- 
jeftive, mare properly denotes fuperiority in fize, or in 
quality, major; ma, fuperiority in number, as plures. This 
word, even as changed into mo, has always been ufed in 
the fame manner. JamieJ'on.'] In greater quantity ; in 
greater degree.—Their riches were more than that they 
might dwell together. Gen. xxxvi. 7 .—Let more work be 
laid upon the men, that they may labour. Rxod. v. 9. 
Thefe kind of knaves in this plainnefs 
Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends 
Than twenty filky ducking obfervants. Shakefpeare. 
In greater number. [The comparative of J'ome or many.'] 
He had fo many languages in ftore, 
That only fame fhall lpeak of him in more, Cowley. 
Greater. Out of ufe. —The more part advifed to depart. 
Ad?sxxvi. 12.—Added to fome former number.—One more 
citizen to fybil give. Dryden. 
I’m tir’d of rhyming, and would fain give o’er, 
But Montague demands one labour more. AddiJ'on. 
MORE, adv. To a greater degree.— He loved Rachel 
more than Leah. Gen. xxix. 30.—The fpirits of animate 
bodies are all, in fome degree, more or lefs kindled. Bacon. 
—As the blood pafleth through narrower channels, the 
rednefs dilappears more and more. Arbuthuot on Aliments. 
The more the kindled combat rifes higher, 
The more with fury burns the blazing fire. Dryden. 
The particle that forms the comparative degree.—The 
advantages of learning are more lading than thofe of 
arms. Collier on Pride. 
I am fall’n out with my more headier will, 
To take the indifpos’d and fic.kly fit 
For the found man, Shakefpeare's K. Lear. 
Again ; a fecond time.—Little did I think I diould ever 
have bufinefs of this kind on my hands more. Tatlsr. — 
M O R 
Longer; yet continuing : with the negative panicle: 
Caffius is no more! Oh, letting fun! 
As in thy red rays thou dod fink to-night, 
So in his red blood Caffius’ day is fet. Shahcjpeare. 
MORE, f. [a kind of comparative from fome or much.] 
A greater quantity ; a greater degree.— Perhaps fome of 
the examples which are adduced under the adverb, with 
the before more, diould be placed here; but I rather think 
the more to be adverbial. Johnfon. —A mariner having let 
down a large portion of his founding-line, he reaches no 
bottom, whereby he knows the depth to be lb many 
fathoms and more; but how much that more is, he hath 
no didinft notion. Locke. 
I fhould cut off the nobles for their lands; 
And my more having would be as a fauce 
To make me hunger more. Shahefpeare's Macbeth. 
Greater thing; other thing.—They, who fo date a quef- 
tion do no more but feparate the parts of it one from ano¬ 
ther, and lay them fo in their due order. Locke. —Second 
time ; longer time : 
They deer’d their courfe to the fame quiet Ihore, 
Not parted long, and now to part no more. Pope. 
It is doubtful whether the word, in this ufe, be a noun 
or adverb.—The dove returned not again unto him any 
7nore. Gen.vih.- 
Pry’thee be fatisfy’d ; he diall be aided, ’ 
Or I’ll no more be king. Dryden s Cteom. 
Delia, the queen of love, let all deplore ! 
Delia, the queen of beauty, is no more. Waljh. 
To MORE. To make more. Obfolete. —What he will 
make more, he rnoreth. Gower's Conf. Am. 
MORE, f. [mop, Sax. a mountain.] A hill. Hence 
the Staffordlhire morelands or moorlands. See Moorland, 
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MORE, f [mopan, Sax. a berry, or feed.] A root. A 
word ufed in Gloucederfhire ; as a moving- axe is for an axe 
to grub up the roots of trees. GroJ'e. —Tenne thouland 
mores of lundry fcent and hew. Spenfer. —We ufe the 
word mores in the wed of England for roots, See. Upton's 
Note on Spevjcr, 
MORE, a village in Shropdiire, north of Bifhop’s 
Cadie. 
MORE, a village in Suflex, north-ead of Petworth. 
MORE (Sir Thomas), an illudrious datefman, the 
only fon of fir John More, a judge of the king’s bench, 
was born in London in 1480. Having received an excel¬ 
lent education, be was placed in the family of cardinal 
Morton, archbiihop of Canterbury, and chancellor. He 
there fo much didinguidied himfelf by the quicknefs and 
brilliancy of his talents, and by the amiablenefs of his 
temper, that the cardinal was accudomed to fay, “ This 
child, here waiting at table, will prove an extraordinary 
man.” Hence we learn how cudomary it was, at that 
period, for children of gentlemen to fubmit to menial 
conditions, when received into the houfes of the great. 
The youth did not-remain long in this fituation; he had 
put forth the promife of fine abilities and a powerful 
mind, and was in a fiiort time removed to Canterbury- 
college, now Chrid-church, Oxford, where he purfued 
his dudies with fuccefs; and, when he had completed 
his academical courfe, he was entered at the New-inn, to 
be initiated in the legal profedion, with a view of prac- 
tifing at the Chancery-bar. After this, he feems to have 
changed his plans, and to have removed to Lincoln’s-inn, 
where he remained till he was called to the bar. He was 
naturally very facetious and cheerful; neverthelefs he 
began, before he had arrived at the years of manhood, to 
praCtife thofe perfonal auderities which are confidered as 
effential to the-devout character in the church of Rome, 
to which church he was, through the whole of life, ze.v- 
loufly attached. In his twenty-fecond year he was eledte.d 
a member 
