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^TARIOU'A, a town of Brafil, on the Rio Negro: 125 
miles weft of Fort Rio Negro. 
MARIOU'T, a town of Egypt, on the weft coaft of 
Birk Marioutj fifteen miles foulh-fouth-weft of Alexan¬ 
dria. 
MAR'IPA,yi [a barbarous Caribean name, adopted 
by Juflieu from Aublet; but, according to his own prin¬ 
ciples, retained only till the genus is either better efta- 
bliftied, or entirely fet afide.] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs pentandria, order monogynia, natural order convol¬ 
vuli, JuJf. Generic characters—Calyx: perianth infe¬ 
rior, of one leaf, in five deep roundilh concave fegments, 
folding over each other. Corollas of one petal, tubu¬ 
lar; tube twice as long as the calyx, dilated at the bafe, 
as well as at the mouth; limb in five, equal, roundilh, 
crenate, fpreading lobes. Stamina : filaments five, fhort, 
thread-lhaped, inferred into the lower part of the tube, 
oppofite to the fegments of the limb; antherae vertical, 
oblong, cloven at the bafe, of two cells, Ihorter than the 
limb. Piftillum : germen fuperior, ovate ; ftyle thread- 
lhaped, declining, longer than the corolla; ftigma pel¬ 
tate, convex. Pericarpium : eapfule of two cells. Seeds 
twq in each cell, ereCl, parallel, convex externally, angu¬ 
lar on the infide.— EJfential CharaEler. Corolla tubular, 
its limb in five equal fpreading fegments; antherae long, 
arrow-lhaped; ftigma peltate, convex. Capfule of two 
cells; feeds in pairs, ereCf, parallel. 
Maripa fcandens, a Angle fpecies; found by Aublet in 
Guiana, on the banks of the river Sinemari, eight leagues 
from its mouth, flowering in November. The Item is 
twining, fomewhat woody, fupporting itfelf, by means of 
tendrils, upon the neighbouring trees. Leaves alternate 
llalked, ovate, entire, pointed, fmooth, firm, and Ihining; 
fix inches long at moll. Panicles terminal, branched 
and forked, with a pair of fmall ovate brafles at each 
fubdivifion. Flowers white, about the fize of the com¬ 
mon white jafmine. Aublet. Guian. t. 91. 
MARIPI'PI, one of the fmaller Philippine Iflands s 
twenty miles fouth-eaft of Malbate. 
__ MARIPON'DY, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carna¬ 
tic : fifteen miles fouth-weft of Ongole. 
MARIQUI'TA, a town of South America, in the 
country of Popayan, fituated near fome rich gold-mines. 
I-t is alfo called St. SebaJUan del Oro: *10 miles north-eaft 
of Popayan, and eighty fouth of Santa Fe de Bogota. 
Lat. 5. 16. N. Ion. 74.6. W. 
MAR'ISCH, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Pre- 
rau : twelve miles north of Freyberg. 
MARIS'CUS, f. in botany. See Cyperus, Kyllin- 
gia, Schgenus, and Scirpus. 
MAR'ISFELD, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Henneberg: fix miles eaft of Meinungen. 
MAR'ISH, f. [ marais , Fr. mepfc, Sax. maerfck, Dut.] 
A bog; a fen; a fwamp ; watery ground ; a marlh; a mo¬ 
rals ; a moor. See Marsh. —‘The flight was made to¬ 
wards Dalkeith ; which way, by reafon of the marijh , the 
Englilh horfe were leaft able to purfue. Hayward. 
To their fix’d ftation, all in bright array. 
The cherubim defcended; on the ground 
Gliding meteorous, as ev’ning mi ft 
Ris’n from a river o’er the marifk glides. 
And gathers ground faft at the labourer’s heel. Milton. 
MAR'ISH, adj. Moorilh; fenny ; boggy ; fwampy.— 
It hath been a great endangering to the health of fome 
plantations, that they have built along the fea and rivers, 
m marijh and unwholefome grounds. Bacon's EJfays. 
The fen and quagmire, fo marijh by kind, 
Are to be drained. Tujfa's Hujbandry. 
MAR'ITAL, adj. [ maritas , Lat. marital, Fr.] Pertain¬ 
ing to a hulband ; incident to a hulband.—It has been 
determined by feme unpolite profelfers of the law, that a 
hulband may exercife his marital authority fo far, as to 
give his wife moderate correction. Art of Tormenting. 
MAR'ITATED, adj. Having a hulbaitd, 
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MARITI'CO, a river of South America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Carthagena, which runs into the Spanifti Main 
in lat. S. 5. N. Ion. 76. 4a. W. 
MARITA'GIUM.y; The portion which is given with 
a daughter in marriage. Glanvil. lib.ii. c. 18. But marita- 
gium, ftriCily taken, and contradiftinguilhed from matri~ 
mcnium, or right of marriage, denoted, in its feodal fenfe, 
the power which the lord, or guardian in chivalry, had of 
difpofing of his infant ward in matrimony. While the 
infant was in ward, the guardian had the power of tender¬ 
ing him or her a fuitable match, without difparageinent 
or inequality ; which, if the infant refufed, they forfeited 
the value of the marriage, “ valorem maritagii,” to their 
guardian; that is, fe much as a jury would aflefs, or any 
one would bona Jide give to the guardian, for fuch an alli¬ 
ance ; and, if the infants married themfelves without the 
guardian’s confent, they forfeited double the value, “du- 
plicem valorem maritagii.” This, fays judge Blackftone, 
feems to have been one of the greateft hardlhips of our 
ancient tenures. 
MARIT'IMAL, or Mar'itime, adj. \maritimus, Lat; 
maritime, Fr.] Performed on the fea; marine.—I dif- 
courfed of a maritimal voyage, and the paflages and inci¬ 
dents therein. Raleigh’s EJjays. —Relating to the fea ; na¬ 
val.—At the parliament at Oxford his youth, and want 
of experience in maritime fervice, had fomewhat been 
Ihrewdly touched. Wotton.— Bordering on the fea.'—Nep¬ 
tune upbraided them with their ftupidity and ignorance, 
that a maritime town fhould negledt the patronage of him 
who was the god of the feas. Addifon. 
The friend, the Ihores maritimal 
Sought for his bed, and found a place upon which play’d 
The murmuring billows. Chapman's Iliad. 
MARITIME AU'STRIA, the name given to the ter¬ 
ritory in Italy (including the Venetian ftates) which were 
ceded to the emperor of Germany by the French repub¬ 
lic, at the treaty of Campo Formio ip. 1.797 ; at which 
time the emperor gave up the whole of the Auftrian 
Netherlands to the French. See the article Germany, 
vol. viii. p. 51 r.—The changes that have happened fince 
make it unneceflary for us to enter into particulars as to 
the extent of thefe ceflions. 
MARI'TUS, f. in the ancient chemical jargon, a word 
ufed to exprefs the fulphur of metals. The writers on 
the fubjeft of the philofopher’s ftone ufually exprefs them¬ 
felves in this enigmatical manner, calling fulphur the 
hulband, and mercury the wife, in all metals; which, as 
they are more or lefs perfectly combined, make the metal 
more or lefs pure, and approaching to perfeftion. 
MAR'ITZ, or Marise'a, in ancient geography, a ri¬ 
ver of European Turkey, which rifes in a chain of moun¬ 
tains, called Balken (the ancient Humus,) and, palling by 
Filopofterli in a direflion towards the eaft and fouth, falls 
into the -ffigean Sea in the Gulf of Enos after a courfe of 
two hundred miles. This river was the ancient Hebrus ; 
which fee. 
MARIVAU'X (Peter Carlet de Chamblain de), a dif- 
tinguilhed dramatift and novelift, was born at Paris in 
1688. His father had an office in the mint at Riom in 
Auvergne; but the family was originally Norman, and 
had poflelfed feveral magiftracies in the parliament of 
that province. With a flight tinfiure of claffical lite¬ 
rature, he was early regarded as a youth of parts; and 
the ambition of becoming an original writer was his 
rulibg paffion. An intimacy with Fontenelle and La 
Motte nourilhed in him that preference of the moderns 
to the ancients which his fuperficia) acquaintance with 
the latter naturally infpired ; and one of his firft at¬ 
tempts was a traveftie of Homer, on the model of Scar- 
ron’s Virgil, for the direft purpofe of throwing ridicule 
on that father of poetry. The drama, however, was the 
walk in which he firll exercifed his inventive powers. 
At the age of eighteen he produced within a few daysj 
in confequence of a wager, a comedy in verfe in one 
long aft, entitled 15 Le Pere Prudent.” This, how. 
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