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roots either in fpring or autumn, yet thefe feldom make 
fo good plants as thofe obtained from feeds. The variety 
wirhdouble flowers feldom produces any good feeds; there¬ 
fore that mult be propagated in this manner, or by plant¬ 
ing cuttings in the fpring or fummer months, which will 
take root, and make good plants. 
The fecond fort is feldom cultivated except in botanic 
gardens. Sow the feeds in autumn, foon after they are 
ripe, or in the fpring, upon a bed of common earth, in 
almoft any tituation ; when the plants come up, thin them 
where they are too clofe, and keep them clean from weeds. 
N° 3 may be propagated in the fame manner. N° 4. is 
a weed too common among flovenly cultivators of arable 
land. Sow the feeds of N° 6 in autumn, foon after they 
are ripe, in the full ground ; and, when the plants are fit 
to remove, if they are planted in the borders of the flower- 
garden, they will continue fome years without protection, 
and annually produce flowers and feeds. See Achillea, 
Anthemis, Chrysanthemum, and Cotula. 
MAT'RICE,/. [Fr. from matrix, Lat.] The womb; 
the cavity where the fcetus is formed.—If the time re¬ 
quired in viviricaticn be of any length, the fpirit vv ill ex¬ 
hale before the creature be mature, except it be enclofed 
in a place where it may have continuance of the heat, and 
clofenefs that may keep it from exhaling ; and fuch places 
are the wombs and matrices of the females. Bacon. —A 
mould ; that which gives form to fomething inclofed.— 
Stones, that carry a refemblance of cockles, were formed in 
the cavities ol (hells ; and thefe (hells have ferved as ma¬ 
trices or moulds to them. Woodward. — See the article Foun- 
dery, vol. vii, 
MAT'RICIDE, f. [ matricidium , Lat.] Slaughter of a 
mother.—Nature compenfates the death of the father by 
the matricide and murtherof the mother. Brown. — [Matricides, 
Lat. matricide , Fr.] A mother-killer. Ainfwortk. 
MATRIC'UL A,yi [Latin.] A regifter of the admiflion 
of officers and perions entered into any body or fociety 
whereof a lilt is made: hence thofe who are admitted into 
our univerflties are faid to be matriculated. Among eccle- 
fiaftical authors, we find mention made of two kinds of 
matricula : the one containing a lift of the ecclefiaftics, 
called Matricula Clericorum ; the other of the poor fubfifted 
at the expenfe of the church, called Matricula Pavperum. 
Matricula was alio applied to a kind of alms-houfe, 
where the poor were provided for. It had certain reve¬ 
nues appropriated to it, and was ufually built near the 
church, whence the name was alfo frequently given to 
the church itfelf. 
To MATRIC'ULATE, v.a. [from matricula ; a matrix, 
"'quod ea velut matrice contineantur militum nomina.” 
Ainfwortk. ] To enter or admit to a memberfhip of the 
univerflties,of England ; to enlift ; to enter into any fo¬ 
ciety by fetting down the name.—He, after fome trial of 
his manners and learning, thought fit to enter himfelf of 
that college, and after to matriculate him in the univerfity. 
Walton's Life of Sanderfon. 
MATRIC'ULATE, f. A man matriculated.—Suffer 
me, in the name of the matriculates of that famous univer¬ 
ity, to alk them fome plain queftions. Arbuthnot. 
MATRIC'ULATING, f. See the next word. 
MATRICUL A'TION, f. The act of matriculating.— 
A fcholar abfent from the univerfity for five years is 
ftruck out of the matriculation-book ; and, .upon his coming 
de novo to the univerfity, ought to be again matriculated. 
Aylffe. 
MATRIMO'NIAL, adj. [Fr. from matrimonium, Lat.] 
Suitable to marriage ; pertaining to marriage ; connubial ; 
nuptial ; hymeneal.—If he relied upon that title, he could 
be but a king at curtefy, and have rather a matrimonial 
than a regal power, the right remaining in his queen. 
Bacon's Henry VII. 
Since I am turn’d the hufband, you the wife 5 
The matrimonial victory is mine. 
Which, having fairly gain’d, I will refign. Dryden. 
MAT 
Matrimonial Crown, in Scottifh hiftory, a grant by 
wb^ch the hufband of the queen acquired a right to af- 
fume the title of king, to have his name damped upon 
the coin, and to fign all public inftruments together with 
the queen. In this cafe, the fubjefts took an oath of al¬ 
legiance to him ; his authority became, in fome meafure, 
co-ordinate with that of the queen ; and without his fig- 
nature, no public deeds feern to have been confidered as 
valid. By the oath of fidelity of the Scottifh comrailfioners 
to the dauphin who married Mary queen of Scots at Paris 
in 1358, they underltood thefe rights to belong to the huff. 
band only during the marriage, not to remain with him in 
cafe Mary (liouiu die before him. But the parliament af¬ 
terwards enlarged them to the full extent in which they 
fubfifted by the law 1 (or courtefy) of Scotland among pri¬ 
vate perfons ; for, by that law, a perfon who married an 
heirefs kept poffefficn of her eftate during his whole life, 
if he happened to furvive her and her children born of the 
marriage. And it is to be obferved that the confpirators 
againft Rizzio bound themfelves to procure a gra/n of the 
crown matrimonial to Darnley, Mary’s fecond hufband, dur¬ 
ing his whole life. However, as both thefe perfons died 
before the queen, it is not known in what manner the grant 
might have been aCled upon. . 
M ATRIMO'NI ALLY, adv. According to the manner 
or laws of marriage.—He is fo matrimonially wedded into 
his church, that he cannot quit the fame, even on the fcore 
of going into a religious houfe. Aylrffe. 
MATRIMO'NIUM, f. in law, is fometimes taken for 
the inheritance defeendingtoa man ex parte matris, or from 
the mother. 
MAT'RIMONY, f. [ matrimonium , Lat.] Marriage; the 
nuptial (late; the contraCf of man and wife; nuptials.— 
If any know caufe why this couple ftiould not be joined 
in holy matrimony, they are to declare it. Common Prayer.— 
Sometimes, in old plays, a wife.—Reftore my matrimony 
undefiled. Beaumont and Fletcher's Little French Lawyer. 
MA'TRIX, /. _[Lat. matrice, Fr.] Womb; a place 
where any thing is generated or formed ; matrice.—If 
they be not lodged in a convenient matrix , they are not 
excited by the efficacy of the fun. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 
MAT'RIZATE, v. n. [from the Lat. mater, mother.] 
To put on the mother; to imitate the mother, Scott. 
MA'TRON,yi [matrone, Fr, matrona, Lat.] An elderly 
lady.—She was in her early bloom, with a dilcretion very 
little interior to the moft experienced matrons. Tatler. 
Come, civil night, 
Thou fober-fuited matron , all in black. Shakefpeare. 
An old woman : 
A matron fage 
Supports with homely food his drooping age. Pope. 
Matron, matrona, among the Romans, (ignified a mar¬ 
ried woman, and fometimes alfo the mother of a family. 
There was, however, fome difference between matrona and 
mater-familias. Servius fays, that fome imagined the dif¬ 
ference to lie in this, that matrona was a woman who had 
one child, and mater-familias, one that had feveral. But 
others, particularly Aulus Gellius, take the name matrona 
to belong to a married woman, whether (he had ^ny 
children or not; the hope and expectation of having them 
being enough to warrant the,title of mother, matrona ; and 
for this reafon it is, that marriage is called matrimony, 
This opinion is fupported by Nonius. 
Matrons, Jury of, is a jury of twelve difereet women, 
direded by the judge to enquire into the fact when a wo¬ 
man is capitally convicted, and pleads her pregnancy. 
This plea, though it cannot be made in (lay of judgment, 
may be urged in refpite of execution. If the jury bring 
in their verdiCt quick with child, execution (hall be itaid 
generally to the next feflion ; and fo from feflion to feflion, 
till either the woman is delivered, or proves, by the courfe 
of nature, not to have been with child at all. But, if (he 
ence hath had the benefit of this reprieve, and been deli- 
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