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MATUGUAN', a town of Peru, in the audience of 
Lima : fixty miles north of Guanca Velica. 
MATVIEV', an ifiand of Ruflia, in the Straits of Va- 
gntfkoi. Lat. 69.15. N. Ion. 5a. 14. E. 
MATVIEV'KA, a town of Ruffia, in the government 
of Ekaterinoflav, on the Bug: forty miles north-welt of 
Cherfon. 
MATU'RA, in mythology, the fuppofed goddefs of 
ripe corn. 
MATU'RA, or Mut'tra, a town of Hindooftan, 
Situated in a diftrift of the lame name, in the country of 
Agra, near the Jumnah ; it takes its name from a pagoda 
formerly in great repute: twenty-two miles north-eaft of 
Agra, and feventy fouth-fouth-eaft of Delhi. 
MATU'RA, a town of the llland of Ceylon, on the 
fouth coaft, at the mouth of the river Melipu, with a 
harbour for fmall vefieis. Near it is a celebrated pagoda : 
j 10 miles fouth of Candy. Lat. 5. 53. N. Ion. 80. 43. E. 
MATU'RA, a town, or rather a chain of villages, in 
Egypt, on the right bank of the Nile: twelve miles north 
of Enfeneh. 
MAT'URANT, f. [from Lat. maturo, to ripen.] A 
medicine to promote the fuppuration of tumors. 
To MATURATE, v. a. [from the Lat. maturo, to ripen.] 
To haften ; to ripen. 
To MATURATE, v. n. To grow ripe. 
MAT'URATING, f. The aft of halter.ing to ripenefs. 
MATURATION,/, [from maturo , Lat.] The ftateof 
growing ripe.—There is the maturation of fruits, the matu¬ 
ration oi dunks, and the maturation of impolihumes ; as 
alio the maturations of metals. Bacon's Natural Hijlory .— 
One of the caufes why grains and fruits are more nourifh- 
ing than leaves, is, the length of time in which they grow 
to maturation. Bacon. —The add of ripening.—We have no 
heat to fpare in fummer ; it is very well if it be fufficient 
for the maturation of fruits. Bentley. — Maturation, by fome 
phyfical writers, is applied to the fuppuration of excre- 
mentitious or extravafa'ted juices into matter; and differs 
from concodtion or digeftion, which is the railing to a 
greater perfection the alimentary and natural juices in 
their proper canals. Quincy. 
MAT'URATIVE, adj. Ripening; conducive to ripe¬ 
nefs.—Between the tropicks and equator their fecond 
fummer is hotter, and more maturative of fruits, than the 
former. Erown. —Conducive to the fuppuration of a fore. 
—Butter is maturative, and is profitably mixed with ano¬ 
dynes and fuppuratives. Wife/nan's Surgery. 
MATU'RE, adj. \_maturus, Lat.] Ripe; perfected by 
time.—Their prince is a man of learning and virtue, ma¬ 
ture in years and experience, who has feldom vanity to 
gratify'. Addifon. 
Mature the virgin was of Egypt’s race, 
Grace fiiap’d her limbs, and beauty deck’d her face. Prior. 
Brought near to completion.—This lies glowing, and is 
mature for the violent breaking out. Shakejpeare's Coriolanus, 
Here i’ th’ fands 
Thee I’ll rake up; and in the mature time, 
With this ungracious paper ftrike the fight 
Of the death-praftis’d duke. Skakefpeare's King Lear. 
Well-difpofed ; fit for execution ; well-digefted. 
To MATU'RE, v. a. To ripen ; to advance to ripenefs. 
■—Prick an apple with a pin full of holes, not deep, and 
fmear it a little with fack, to fee if the virtual heat of the 
wine will not mature it. Bacon's Natural Hijlory. —To ad¬ 
vance towards perfection : 
Love indulg’d my labours pad. 
Matures my prefent, and fhall bound my laft. Pope. 
MATU'RELY, adv. Ripely; completely.—*With coun- 
fel well-digefted.—A prince ought maturely to confider, 
when he enters on a war, whether his coffers be full, and 
his revenues clear of debts. Swift. —Early; f’oon. A latinifm. 
—We are fo far from repining at God, that lie hath not 
MAT 
extended the period of our lives to the longevity of the an¬ 
tediluvians; that we give him thanks for contracting the 
days of our trial, and receiving us more maturely into thofe 
everlafting habitations 3bove. Bentley. 
MATURIN', a town of Venezuela, in Spanifh America, 
faid to have been totally deftroyed during the conteft be¬ 
tween the royalift and independent parties in the prefent 
year (1815). 
MATU'RING, J. The a£l or ftate of advancing t® 
ripenefs; 
MATU'RITY,/ \_maturite, ¥x'. maturitas, La’t.] Ripe¬ 
nefs; completion.—Various mortifications mult be under¬ 
gone, many difficulties and obftrmftions conquered, be¬ 
fore we can arrive at a juft maturity in religion. Rogers. 
Impatient nature had taught motion 
To ftart from time, and cheerfully to fly 
Before, and leize upon maturity. Crajhaw. 
MATURU', a town of Brafil, on the river Xingi: 
forty-five miles fouth-vveft of Curupa. 
MATUSA'RUM, in ancient geography, a town of Lu- 
fitania, fouth-eaft of Scalabis. The Itinerary of Antonine 
marks it upon the route from Lifbon to Emerita. 
MATUSFAL'VA, a town of Hungary : forty-four 
miles north-weft: of Munkacs, and twenty-five north-eaft 
of Cafchau. 
MATU'TA, a deity among the Romans, the fame as 
the Leucothoe of the Greeks. She was originally Ino, 
who was changed into a fea-deity. Only married women 
and free-born matrons were permitted to enter her temples 
at Rome, where they generally brought the [children of 
their relations in their arms, for the realon affigned under 
Leucothoe, vol. xii. p. 551. 
MATU'TA, in mythology, Aurora, the goddefs of 
the morning. 
MATUTIL'IA, f. The feafts inftituted in honour of 
Matuta. 
MATU'TINAL, adj. Matutine, belonging to the 
morning. Cole. 
MATU'TINE, adj. Belonging to Matuta ; belonging 
to the morning. Phillips. 
MATY (Matthew, M.D.) a phyfician and man of let¬ 
ters, was born in 1718, at Montfort near Utrecht. His 
father, who was a refugee profeftant clergyman, (from 
Beaufort in Provence,) intended to educate him for the 
fame profeflion ; but, in confequence of fome difgufts re¬ 
ceived from the fynod on account of his fentiments re- 
fpetfting the trinity, he changed his Ton’s deftination to 
phyfic. Matthew took the degree of M.D. at Leyden, 
and in 1740 came to fettle in England. In 1747, he printed 
at Leyden “ Effai fur le Caraftere du Grand Medecin, 011 
Eloge Critique de Boerhaave.” He began, in 1750, to 
publifh at the Hague, in French, an account of the princi¬ 
pal works printed in England, under the title of “Jour¬ 
nal Britunnique.” This was well received, and intro¬ 
duced the author to notice, of which one of the effects 
was his being chofen an under-librarian of the Britifli 
Mufeum at its firft inftitution in 1753. In 1758 he was 
elected a fellow of the Royal Society; and in 1765, on 
the refignation of Dr. Birch, he was appointed fecretary 
to that learned body. In 177 z, at the death of Dr. Knight, 
he became principal librarian to the Britifli Mufeum. He 
filled thele offices with great reputation, and was in gene¬ 
ral efteem for the benevolence of his private character, 
and the extent of his literary information. In his proper 
profeffion he was diltinguifhed as a zealous promoter of 
the praftice of inoculation. He tranflated, in 1768, Dr. 
Gatti’s New Obfervations on Inoculation, which had been 
originally written by the author at hisrequeft. Dr. Maty 
died in 1776, when he h^d nearly prepared for the prels 
the “ Memoirs of the Earl of Ciielterfield,” which were 
publiflied by his fon-in-law Mr. Juftamond in 1777, pre¬ 
fixed to that nobleman’s Mifcellaneous Works. AnecJ. 
of-Bowyer. 
MAT'Y (Paul-Ilenry), Ton of the preceding, was bom 
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