M A U 
A long time he taught the daffies and belles lettres in dif¬ 
ferent feminaries belonging to his order, with extraordi¬ 
nary fuccefs and reputation. Being ordained prieft, he 
diftiaguilhed himfelf by his talents as apreacher, and was 
frequently employed by his fuperiors on miffions. With¬ 
drawing afterwards into retirement, he devoted himfelf 
entirely to the ftudy of the Scriptures, and the compofi- 
tion of various works which he gave to the public. He 
died in the year 1709, about the age of feventy-five ; and 
is commended for the unaffefted fimplicity and opennels 
of his manners, and for being learned without oltenta- 
tion. In his younger years he paid his court to the 
Mufes, and gained feveral poetical prizes at Rouen and 
Caen. He was the author of, 1. The Pfalms of David 
tranflated into French Verfe, 12010. which poffefs little 
merit. 2. Miscellaneous Poems, in four books, 1681, 
jitmo. fome of which are entitled to confiderable pruife. 
3. A Did'ertation on the Gout, 1687, 12010. in which the 
author imagines that lie has difeovered the true caufe of 
that diforder, and fhown a certain method of curing it. 
4. A Treatife on Religion, againft the Atheifts, Deifts, 
and modern Pyrrhonifts; of which the belt edition is that 
of 1698. 5. Meditations for an Ecclefiaftical Retreat of 
Ten Days, 121110. 6. An Analyfis of the Gofpels, har¬ 
monized in Hiftorical Order, with Differtations on diffi¬ 
cult Paffages, 1694, 3 vols. 121110. and augmented in a 
fecond edition to 4 vols. 7. An Analyfis of the Afts of 
the Apoftles, 1697, 2 vols. nmo. 8. An Analyfis of the 
Epiftles of St. Paul, and of the feVen Catholic Epiftles, 
with Differtations on difficult Paffages, 1693, 2 vols. 
12mo. Moreri. 
MAVEBA'RA, a town of South America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Choco : twenty miles north of Zitara. 
MAVELICAN', a town of Hindooftan, in the Car¬ 
natic : forty miles of Travancore. 
MAVENHEL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in the My- 
fore country, ceded to Great Britain in 1799. It is fixty 
miles fouth-eaft of Seringapatam. 
MAVERI'RAM, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car¬ 
natic : twelve miles north-weft of Tranquebar. 
MAUG, /. The name of a Hindoo month, which in 
fome meafure agrees with our January and February. 
MAUG, Tunas, or St. Laurence, one of the fmaller 
of the iflands called Ladrones, compofed of three rocks, 
about twenty miles in circumference : fifteen miles from 
the ifland of Affumption. 
MAU'GERVILLE, a town of New Brunfwick, on the 
St.John. Lat.45. 59.N. Ion. 66/40. W. 
MAU'GHOLD, a village in the Ifte of Man, near Ram- 
fay. The name of this village is derived from one of the 
early biftiops of the ifland. The church, in dimenflon fe- 
venty-two feet by feventeen, extravagant proportions (fays 
Mr. Woods) even for Man, ftands in the centre of five 
acres of grafs, interfperfed with grave-lfones. The Manks 
church-yards have not the neatnefs of thofe of Wales; 
and the mournful yew is rarely if ever to be feen. Near 
the entrance to this is a pillar of unhewn clay-flate, about 
feven feet high, the centre of a horfe-block. Three of its 
fides reprefent our Saviour in three ftates: of birth, paflion, 
and crucifixion. The fourth fide is Amply ornamented with 
a fprig of oak. That it refers, as Robertfon conjectures, 
to St. Maugholdtend St. Bridget, is highly improbable. 
Maughold Head is an abrupt promontory terminated 
by a bold cliff. Underneath fome mofs-covered rocks was 
a fpring called St. Maughold’s Well, much reforted to for 
the fuppofed medicinal virtues of its waters; and for the 
fecundity which they imparted to women, when fitting in 
the faint’s chair to drink them. It is forty miles weft-fouth- 
weft from St. Bee’s Head. Lat. 54. 18. N. Ion. 3. 28. W. 
MAU'GRE, adj. \malgre, Fr.j In fpite of; notwith- 
ftanding. Out of ufe. —He prophefied of the fuccefs of his 
Gofpel; which, after his death, immediately took root, 
and fpread itfelf every-where, maugre all oppofition or 
perfecution. Burnet. 
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I thi'ougtrthe ample air in triumph high 
Shall lead hell captive, maugre hell! and fhow 
The pow’rs of darknefs bound. Milton’s Par. loji . 
MAUGRE', or Maulore, adv. With ill will: 
On the cold ground mdugre himfelfe he threw. 
For fell defpight to be fo forely croft. Spenfer. 
Ne would for ought obay as did become, 
To beare that ladie’s head before his breaft* 
Until that Talus had his pride repreft 
And forced him, manlgre, it up to reare. Spenfer. 
MAU'GSEE, three fmall iftands in the Eaftern Indian 
Sea, between Borneo and Paraguay. Lat. 7. 33. N. ion. 
X17. 30. E. 
MAUGUI'O, or Maugiovil'le, a town of France, in 
the department of the Ilerault-. fix miles ealt of Mont¬ 
pellier, and fix fouth-weft of Lunel. 
MAU'HLIA,/. in botany. See Agapanthus, vol. i, 
MAV'ILE, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Cicacole : twenty-leven miles fouth-weft of Coffimcotta. 
MA'VIS, f. [mauvis , Fr.] A thrufli, or bird like a 
thrufh. An old word. —In birds, kites have a refemblance 
with hawks, and black-birds with thrulhes and mavijes . 
Bacon's Mat. Hift. 
The world that cannot deem of worthy things. 
When I do praife her, fay I do but flatter; 
So doth the cuckow, when the mavis Lings, 
Begin his witlefs note apace to clear. Spenfer. 
To MAUL, v. a. [from malleus, Lat. a hammer.] T® 
beat; to bruife; to hurt in a coarfe or butcherly manner t 
Will he who faw the loldier’s mutton fift, 
And faw thee maul’d, appear within the lift, 
To witnefs truth. Dryden's Juvenal 1 
I had fome repute for profe ; 
And, till they drove me out of date. 
Could maul a minifter of ltate. Swift's Mifcellanies. 
MAUL, / [malleus, Lat.] A heavy hammer.—A mas 
that beareth falfe witnefs is a maul, a fword, or fharp ar¬ 
row. Prov. xxv. 18. 
MAU'L-STICK, /. The ftick on which painters reft 
their hand in working. 
MAU'LDAH, a circar of Bengal, of a triangular form, 
and about forty-five miles in circumference ; iituated be¬ 
tween Ragemal and Dinagepour. 
MAU'LDAH, capital of the above circar, near the 
Ganges. It is a place of confiderable trade : fifty-two 
miles north of Moorfliedabad, and 160 eaft-fouth-ealt of 
Patnali. Lat. 25. 3. N. Ion. 88. 16. E. 
MAU'LDE, a place near Valenciennes, where the French 
had a camp in 1792. 
MAU'LE, a river of Chili, which runs into the Pacific 
Ocean in lat. 35.12. S. 
MAU'LDEN, a village in Bedfordfliire, near Ampthill; 
with a fine chapel, and handfome monuments. 
MAU'LEN, a town of Prufiia, in the province of Na- 
tangen ;• feven miles fouth-weft of Konigfberg. 
MAU'LEON, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftrift, in the department of the Lower Pyrenees, con¬ 
taining about 4000 inhabitants, with an ancient cattle on 
a rock, formerly thought impregnable. It is twelve miles 
weft of Oleron, and twenty-one weft-fouth-weft of Pan. 
Lat. 43. 13. N. Ion. 0/ 49. W. 
MAU'LEON, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Pyrenees : nine miles fouth-eaft of La Barthe. 
MAULEVRIE'R, a town of France, in the department 
of the Maine and Loire : fix miles ealt-fouth-eait of Choi- 
let, and twelve weft of Argenton. 
MAU'LI, a river of Sicily, which runs into the fea 
about eight miles lbuth-fouth-weft from Ragufa. Lat. 
36. 40. N. Ion. 13. 45. E. 
MAULIAVER AM'. See Mavai.ipuram, p. 549. 
MAU'LING,/ The aft of beating. 
7 B MAULL'E* 
