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more abfolute fway ; while the queen-mother loft all hep 
influence, and was reduced to infignificance. Hiftory has 
handed down a variety of heavy charges again It him ; l'uch 
as having purpofely brought up the young king in igno¬ 
rance ; not having fignalized his adminiftration by a fingle 
grand or ufeful national eftablifhment; and having amalfed 
iuch a fortune as no other minifter ever had, amounting, 
it was faid, to two hundred millions of livres, or eight 
millions fieriing. Ilis profperity was of no long duration : 
he was attacked by a difeaie which his conlfitution could 
not refill. When fenfible of his danger, he began to feel 
fcruples concerning the wealth which he had heaped to¬ 
gether; and his confefidr plainly told him that refiitution 
was necefiary for his falvation. He gave the whole to the 
king, in the hope that, as was the cafe, his raajefiy would 
reltore it to his heirs. He died in 1661, at the age of fifty- 
nine. The Letters of Cardinal Mazarin, containing his 
negotiations at the peace of the Pyrenees, were publilhed 
in two volumes umo. in 1745. The trails on the contro- 
verfy refpefling the war of the Fronde were fo numerous, 
that a complete colleftion of them amounted to forty-fix 
volumes 4to. The adminiftration and talents of Mazarin 
have been compared with thofe of Richelieu ; but the com¬ 
manding features which diltinguifhed the latter are in 
vain fought for in the former. Prudent, fiibtle, and ava- 
licious, he endeavoured to foothe rather than to command ; 
to deceive than to vanquilh ; and the love of glory either 
did not exilt in his bolom, or was loft in his infatiable 
thirltof money. See the article France, vol. vii. p. 724- 
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MAZARI'NE, f. in cookery, a particular manner of 
drelling fowls ; a little dilh fet in a larger. 
MAZARINE-BLU'E, /. A deep blue colour. 
M AZARI'NO, a town of Sicily, in the valley of Noto : 
fix miles fouth-weft of Piazza, and twenty north-ealt of 
Alicata. 
MAZATLAN', a town of Mexico, in the province of 
Chiametlan, on a river of the fame name : forty miles 
north-weft of Chiainetlan. Lat.23.15 N. Ion. 106.46. W. 
MAZATLAN', a river of Mexico, which runs into the 
Pacific Ocean in lat. 23.15. N. 
MA'ZE, f [from mijfen, Dut. to miftake ; or from 
mape, a whirlpool.] A labyrinth ; a place of perplexity 
and winding palfages.—He left in himielf nothing but a 
maze of longing, and a dungeon of forrow. Sidney. 
Circular bafe of rifing folds, that tower’d 
Fold above fold, a furging maze. Milton. 
He, like a copious river, pour’d his fong 
O’er all the mazes of enchanted ground. Thomfon. 
Confufion of thought ; uncertainty ; perplexity.—While 
they ftudy how to bring to pafs that religion may feem 
but a matter made, they lofe themfelves in the very maze 
of their own difcourfes, as if reafon did even purpofely 
forfake them, who of purpofe forfake God, the author 
thereof. Hooker. 
The ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate ; 
Puzzled with mazes and perplex’d with error. 
Our underftanding fearches them in vain. Addifon. 
Others apart fat on hill retir’d, 
In thoughts more elevate, and reafon’d high 
Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, 
Fix’d fate, free will, foreknowledge abfolute} 
And found no end, in wand’ring mazes loft. Milton, 
To MAZE, v. a. To bewilder ; to confufe : 
Much was I maz'd to fee this monfter kind. 
In hundred forms to change his fearful hue. Spenfer. 
MAZE', a town of France, in the department of the 
Mayne and Loire : eleven miles eaft of Angers, and feven 
fouth-weft of Bauge. 
MAZE'AS (John-Mathuirin), a mathematician, was 
bom at Landernaw in Brittany in j 7 j 3, and died in 1802. 
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He wrote, 1. Elements of Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geo¬ 
metry, with an Introduction to Conic Seflions. 2. In- 
ftitutiones Philofophicae, 3 vols. i2nio. He was an eccle- 
fiallic, and held a canonry in the church of Notre Dame, 
at Paris, before the revolution. Nouv. Did. HJl. 
MA'ZER, f. [maefer , Dut. a knot of maple.] A maple- 
cup.—Virgil obferves, like Theocritus, a juft decorum, 
both of the fubjeCl and perfons; as in the third paftoral, 
where one of his fhepherds defcribes a bowl, or mazer, cu- 
rioufly carved. Dryden. 
Then, lo ! Perigot, the pledge which I plight, 
A mazer ywrought of the maple-ware, 
Wherein is enchafed many a fair fight 
Of bears and tygers that make fierce war. Spenfer. 
. MAZ'ERAS, in ancient geography, a river of Hyrca- 
nia, falling into the Cafpian Sea. Plutarch. 
MAZERA'Y, a town of Perlia, in Chorafan : one 
hundred miles weft-fouth-weft of Neflapour. 
MAZE'RES en FOI'X, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Arriege : thirteen miles north-north-well 
of Mirepoix, and twenty-five north of Tarafcon. 
MAZEUTOX'ERON, f. [the name of a plant lately 
brought from Port jackfon ; and deferibed in Labillar- 
diere’s Voyage, vol. ii. and in Andrews’s Botanical Re- 
pofitory. But, before it received this uncouth name, it had 
been deferibed by Dr. Smith in the Linn. Tranf. vol. iv. 
and adopted into the fyftem under the name of Correa, 
in honourof Jofeph Correa de Serra, LL.D. F.R. and L SS. 
a learned Portuguefe botanift, who had been fecretary to 
the Academy of Sciences of Lifbon.] In botany, a genus 
of the clafs oClandria, order monogynia, natural order ru- 
taces, fuff. Generic characters—Calyx : of one leaf, bell- 
fhaped, regular, with four teeth, inferior, permanent. 
Corolla: regular; petals four, linear-oblong, cohering lon¬ 
gitudinally, externally clothed with ftarry pubefcence; 
fpreading at their fummits, and obtufe. Stamina : fila¬ 
ments eight, awl-(haped, fmooth, dilated towards the bot¬ 
tom, four of them fomewhat longer than the reft; antherar 
fertile, incumbent, oblong, of two cells, burfting longitudi¬ 
nally, without any appendage. Piftillum : germen fuperior, 
briltly, four-lobed ; ltyle thread-fhaped, about as long as 
the ftamens, linooth ; ftigma in four fmall acute lobes. 
Capfules: four, cohering longitudinally, coriaceous, each 
lined with an elaftic arillus. Seeds : two in each capfule, 
black, kidney-fhaped.— EJfential Charafter. Calyx of one 
leaf; petals four, cohering ; antherse incumbent, fimple, 
two-celled, burfting longitudinally ; capfules four, co¬ 
hering, each lined with an elaftic arillus. 
1. Mazeutoxeron rufum : leaves roundifli, even, entire ; 
flowers ereCl. A flirub four or five feet high, much 
branched ; the branches oppofite, downy and white. 
Leaves oppofite, on fhortand broadilh white footftalks, of 
a roundifli elliptical obtufe form, entire, even, not undu¬ 
lated, fingle-ribbed ; green, but fprinkled with minute 
dots of white ftarry deciduous pubefcence above; very 
white beneath, and clothed with denfe pubefcence, which, 
like that of the whole genus, confilts of clofely-entangled 
ftarry or cluftered hairs. Stipules none. Flowers termi¬ 
nating the fmall branches, folitary, or two or three toge¬ 
ther, on fliortifh flalks, upright, white. Calyx very ob- 
fcurely four-toothed. Petals four times as long as the 
calyx, cohering when young, then fpreading into a fun¬ 
nel fhaped flower. Stamens rather fliorter than the petals, 
with red antherae. The petals, calyx, and flower-ltalk, are 
all clothed with the fame white ftarry pubefcence as the 
backs of the leaves, which, when for fome time dried, 
turns of a rufty hue; and this muft account for Billar- 
diere’s fpecific name, rufum ; his defeription having ap¬ 
parently been made from dried fpecimens after his return 
home. Dr. Smith calls it white-jlowered. Native of New 
South Wales, near Port Jackfon : originally found by flr 
Jofeph Banks and Dr. Solander. It is a hardy green- 
fhrub, propagated by feeds or cuttings, requiring peat- 
eurtb, and regular fupplies of water. 
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