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MOR'LEY, a townffiip of England, in the Weft Rid¬ 
ing of Yorkfhire: five miles fouth-fouth-vveft of Leeds. 
MOR'LEY, a village in Devonfhire, between Totnefs 
and Kingfbridge. It had anciently a fort, now little more 
than a heap of ftones, called Stanborough, once fo con- 
liderable as to give name to the hundred wherein it ftands. 
Its church was built, as penance, for having killed the 
parfon of Woodleigh, in a quarrel about tithes. 
MOR'LEY, a village in Derbyfhire, three miles north- 
eaft of Derby. Its church is greatly admired for lome cu¬ 
rious ftained glafs in the windows, and for 1’ome fine tombs. 
MOR'LEY St. PE'TER’s and MOR'LEY St. BO- 
T'OLPH’s, two finall villages in Norfolk, to the fiouth- 
weft of Windham. St. Peter’s is only a chapel of eafe to 
St. Botolph’s, the mother-church, from which it lies three 
quarters of a mile to the fouth-weft, in the road to Attle¬ 
borough. 
MOR'LIN (Joachim), a celebrated German Lutheran 
divine and bilhop, was born in the year 1514; but in 
what place we are not informed. After having laid a 
good foundation of the requifite preparatory learning, he 
entered upon his academical ltudies at the univeriity of 
Wittemberg, where he was admitted to the degree of D.D. 
in 1540. About three years after this he W'as expelled 
from Arnftadt by the magiftrates, on account of his in¬ 
temperate zeal in defending the caufeof rigid Lutheranifm; 
upon which he removed to Gottingen, and afterwards to 
Schleufingen. About the year 1551 he accepted of an 
invitation from Albert duke of Pruflia, to become a pro- 
felfor at the newly-founded univerfity of Konigfberg. 
Here, he was foon involved in controverfy with Ofiander, 
who propagated notions concerning repentance, and the 
means of juftification with God, widely different from the 
dotftrines of Luther on thefe points. Thefe hovel tenets 
Morlin oppofed with extreme w'armth, both in his fermons 
and w'ritings ; but Ofiander’s influence with the duke 
prevailed againft him, and he wus deprived of his profef- 
forfhip, and banifhed from the Pruflian territories, in the 
year 1552, notwithftanding the interceflion of the inha¬ 
bitants of Konigfberg in his favour. Morlin did not 
continue long unemployed; for he received an invitation 
from the church of Brunlwick, where he was chofen col¬ 
league to the celebrated Chemnitz. While he continued 
in this connexion, the mod violent difputes agitated the 
Lutheran party, on the fubjefts of the neceftity of good 
wurks, the freedom of the human will, juftification of 
faith alone, &c. Into thefe difputes Morlin entered 
among the foremoft, and was prefent at almoft all the 
conferences to which they gave rile. When adverting 
to the heat and virulence with which they were conduct¬ 
ed, Bayle remarks, that “ all the fiery fpirits which Af¬ 
rica and Afia ever produced, were but phlegm in compa¬ 
nion with thefe German doftors.” To fuch an outrage¬ 
ous length did Morlin permit his zeal to carry him againft 
bis antagonifts, that, it is faid, he oppofed the burial of 
thofe who attended on the fermons of Ofiander, and would 
never be perfuaded to baptize their children. In the 
year 1556, the influence of Ofiander being no longer 
predominant at the court of Pruflia, Morlin was recalled 
to that country, where he was appointed bifhop of Sambia, 
by Sigifmund Auguftus kingof Poland, and Albert duke 
of Pruflia. The poll he occupied during the remainder 
of his life ; and died in 1571, at the age of fifty-feven, in 
conlequence of his fubmitting to the operation of cutting 
for the ftone, contrary to the advice of his phyfician. 
He was the author of, 1- Pfalmorum Davidis Ennarratio ; 
which is his moft important work. 2. Catechilmus Ger- 
manicus. 3. Poftilla et Explicatio Summaria Evangelio- 
rum Dominicalium. 4. Refutatio Mendacii Theologo- 
rum Heildelbergenfium, de Luthero. 5. De Vocatione 
Miniftrorum, et quatenus Magiftratui fas fit eos ab officio 
removere. 6. Defenfio adverfus Accufationem novorum 
Wittembergenfium Theologorum. 7. De Peccato Ori- 
ginis, contra Manichaeorum deliria. 8. Epiftolae ad Ofi- 
andrum, &c. Melchior Adam. Vit . Germ. Theol, Bayle. 
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MOR'LING, or Mort'ling, f. [mort, Fr.J Wool 
plucked from a dead fheep. A injworth. 
MORLUN'DA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland : forty-one miles north of Calmar. 
MORMAN'D, or Morman't, a town of France, in 
the department of the Seine and Marne : ten miles north- 
eall: of Melun. 
MORMAN'DO, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra 1 
fixteen miles north-weft: of Caffano. 
MOR'MO, /! [Greek.] Bugbear; falfe terror.—The be¬ 
lief ofajudgment-day is no panic fear or melancholy dream : 
’tis no trick of politicians, or mormo of priefts, to fright 
fools and- keep the world in awe ; but a truth as certain and 
undoubted as the.oracles of truth can make it. Glanville. 
—All the reft is phlegmatickly palled over with a “ fimul, 
id quod, &c.” as only the mormos and bugbears of a. 
frighted rabble. Warburton on Prodigies. 
MOR'MORA, a town of France, in the department 
of the Stura, on the Maira: fourteen miles fouth-weft of 
Saluzzo. 
MORMY'RUS, f. [Gr. Lat. murmur0, to yield 
a low hollow found.] A genus of fifties, which in the 
Linnsean fyftem ftands at the head of the branchioftegous 
order, but by Cepede and Dr. Shaw placed in the order 
abdominales. Generic characters—Head fmooth ; teeth 
numerous, notched ; aperture of the gills linear, without 
any operculum ; a gill-membrane with one ray ; body 
fcaly; one dorfal fin. Cepede informs us, that all the 
fpecies inhabit the Nile; that they have a lengthened 
fnout, fomewhat like the routing quadrupeds. He alfo 
fays, that the membrane of the gills has more than one 
ray, and that to thofe rays are attached the mufcles which 
move the lower jaw. There are four gills on each fide. 
A large mafs of fat lies before the ftomach. The ovary 
and feed-veflel are Angle ; the lwimming-bladder is as 
long as the abdomen. A blood-veflel runs on each fide 
the vertebrae, guarded by two red mufcles as long as the 
body, and of which the contractions produce the pulfa- 
tions in the blood-veflel. The tail is very long, and of a 
fliape rather unufual; being not comprefled like the body, 
but thick, and almoft cylindrical, as including the glands 
which filtrate the oily matter that flows all along the la¬ 
teral line. Thefe notices Cepede derives from the obfer- 
vations communicated to him by Geoffroy, who has added 
five fpecies to the three before-difcovered. The generic- 
name among the Arabians is hachoite. 
1. Mormyrus cyprinoides : tail bifid, with an appen¬ 
dage; the dorfal fin has 27 rays, the pectorals 9, ventrals 6, 
anal 32, tail 19. Its name points out a certain refein- 
blance with the carps. The fnout is blunt; the upper 
jaw rather longeft ; the dorfal fin lies oppofite the anal, 
and is equal in fize ; noftrils double. 
2. Mormyrus anguilloides : tail bifid obtufe ; 26 rays 
in the dorfal fin. The peCtoral and tail fins have 10 rays 
each, the ventrals 6 , the anal 41. The jaws are of equal 
length ; the dorfal fin oppofite the anal, and fomewhat 
lhorter. Inhabits that part of the Nile which runs near 
the famous antique temple of Dendera, which name is 
therefore given to it by Geoffroy; 
#. M. Haflelquiftii, included by Gmelin with the above, 
is perhaps a variety of it; but is made a diftinCt fpecies 
by Geoffroy and Cepede. The only differences pointed 
out are, 20 rays in the dorfal-fin, 19 in the anal, and 24 
in the tail. 
3. Mormyrus kannume : tail bifid, obtufe; 63 rays in 
the dorfal-fin. The peCtoral fins have 15 rays each, the 
ventrals 6, the anal 17, the tail 20. The fnout is pointed 
and arched, lower jaw the longeft. Body whitilh, and 
very much comprefled 3 lateral line ftraight, in the middle 
of the body; belly ftraight, but rifing from the vent. 
Dorfal fin very long, but very low ; that and the tail li¬ 
near. The Arabian name is Kachoue ommou bouete, “ ka- 
choue the mother of kiffes,” according to Geoffroy. 
4. Mormyrus oxyrhynchus: fnout pointed and ftraight; 
lower jaw rather longeft j dorfal fin the whole length of 
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