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no declaration of war, nor eftablilhes any import, without 
having obtained a fetfa. The mufti takes place of the 
balhaws; and his authority is often terrible to the grand 
fignior himfelf. It is he who girds on the fword to the 
grand fignior’s fide on his acceifion to the throne, which 
ceremony anfwers to the coronation of our kings ; re¬ 
minding him at the fame time of the obligation of de¬ 
fending the religion of the prophet, and of propagating 
his creed. This eminent office might ferve, without doubt, 
as a counterpoife to the almoft abfolute and unlimited au¬ 
thority of the fovereign : it might even frequently para- 
lyfie it, if the fultan had not the power of appointing the 
mufti, of depofing him, of banifiiing him, and even of 
putting him to death after having depofed him; and, in¬ 
deed, it feidom happens that a mufti oppofes the will of 
the fultan and his minifters. His fetfas are forced from 
him by the wifh of preferving his place, and by the fear 
of death ; neverthelels, more than once, religious zeal 
and probity have induced fome to prefent themfelves to 
the iultan, and to make to him obfervations and remon- 
ftrances : fome even, more fanatic and more courageous, 
braving every danger, have refufed to condefcend to his 
wifhes. Iliflory affords various examples of fulfans and 
vizirs killed or depofed through the great influence of 
the muftis on public opinion : but it likewife prefents 
more muftis who have been viftims of their zeal for reli¬ 
gion, and of their attachment to the intererts of the people. 
In public ceremonies, the mufti and the grand vizir are 
in the fame line; the grand vizir on the right, and the 
mufti on the left. When the latter is dilgraced, he is not 
permitted to remain in the capital. The fultan fears the 
influence of a man whom the people are accuftomed to 
regard as the oracle of religion. He is baniflied to fome 
ifland of the Archipelago, or to fome houfe fituated on 
the Bofphorus, with a prohibition to ftir out of it, to re¬ 
ceive any of the principal officers of the empire, or to 
correfpond with them. But we may obferve, that no great 
officer in the Turkifh empire is fated long to furvive his 
difgrace or depofition. 
MUG, f. [Skinner derives it from nnvygl, Welfli, warm; 
implying that our cup is a mug for warming drink. The 
word is of no great age in our language; and is not enu¬ 
merated among the many quaint appellations of pots and 
glafles which are to be found in Heywood’s Drunkard 
Opened, 1635. It is a word coined perhaps in fport. In 
Young’s Defcription of Drunkennefl'e, 1617, it is faid, “ I 
have feen a company amongft the very woods and forrefts 
drinking for a muggle. Sixe determined to trye their 
ftrengths who could drink moll glafles for the muggle. 
The firft drinks a glafl'e of a pint, the fecond two, the 
next three, and fo every one multiplieth till the lalt 
taketh fix.” What this muggle means I know not; and 
therefore am unable to pronounce mug as conne&ed with 
it. Todd.] A cup to drink in : 
Ah Bowzybee, why didft thou ftay fo long? 
The mugs were large, the drink was wond’rous ftrong. Gay. 
MUG'-HOUSE, j. An ale-houfe ; a low’ houfe of enter¬ 
tainment.—He has the confidence to fay, that there is a 
mug-houfe near Long-Acre, where you may every evening 
hear ap exaft account of diftrelfes of this kind. Tatler. 
MUG'-HOUSE, adj. Frequenting or appertaining to 
an ale-houfe: 
Our fex has dar’d the mug-houfe chiefs to meet. 
And purchas’d fame in many a well-fought ftreet. Tickell. 
MUG'-WORT,/ [mugpyjit, Sax. See Artemisia.]— 
The flowers and fruit of the mug-wort are very like thofe 
of the wormwood, but grow ere6t upon the branches. 
Miller. —Some of the molt common fimples with us 
in England are comfry, bugle, betony, and mug-wort. 
Wifeman. 
MU'GA, a town of Spain, in the province of Catalonia: 
twenty-one miles north of Gerona. 
MUGALNOO'jR, a town of Hindooftan, in Coimbe- 
torc: nine miles eaft of Daraporum. 
M U G 
MUGAR'DOS, a town of Spain, in Galicia: feven 
miles north of Betangos. 
MUGDOOMPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: 
thirty miles north-eaft of Monghir. 
MUGDUMPOU'R, a town of Bengal: twenty-two 
miles north of Boglipour. 
MUGDUMPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: 
thirty-feven miles fouth-fouth-weft of Patna. 
MU'GELN (New), a town of Saxony, in the circle of 
Leipfic: twenty-five miles eaft of Leipfic, and fifteen weft- 
north-weft of Meiflen. Lat. 51.15. N. Ion. 12. 57. E. 
MU'GELN (Old), a town of Saxony : two miles north- 
weft of New Mugeln. 
MUGE'RES ISLANDS, called alfo Men-eaters or Wo- 
moi-eaters IJlands, are illands fituated in the bay of Hon¬ 
duras ; ten leagues fouth of Cape Catoche, on the eaft 
coaft of the peninfula of Yutucan. On one of them to 
the fouth, towards the land, is good anchorage in a depth 
from feven to ten fathoms, and clear ground. 
MUG'GARD, adj. Sullen; difpleafed. Exmore dialect. 
Grofe. Probably a corruption of mugger, as ufed in hug¬ 
ger-mugger; from morcker, Dan. darknefs. 
MUG'GETS, /i A part of the entrails of a fheep, or 
beaft of the foreft. Aft. 
MUG'GIA. See Muglia. 
MUG'GISH. See Muggy. 
MUG'GLETON (Ludowick), the founder of an Eng- 
lilh enthufiaftical fedt in the feventeenth century, was 
born in the year 1607. He was bred to the trade of a 
tailor; and feems to have perfuaded himfelf, as well as a 
number of ignorant followers, that he was divinely in- 
fpired to foretel future events, that he was entrufted with 
the keys of heaven and of hell, and that none could ob¬ 
tain admittance into heaven unlefs he opened the gates. 
He maintained that he and one John Reeves were the two 
witnefies fpoken of in Rev. xi. 3 ; and, though the latter 
died foon afterwards, he ftill retained his pretenfions to a 
prophetic character. In a paper which he publifhed about 
the year 1650, he aflerted “ that he was the chief judge 
in the world, in palling fentence of eternal death and 
damnation upon the fouls and bodies of men; that, in 
obedience to his commilfion, he had already curfed and 
damned many hundreds to all eternity: that, in doing 
this, he went by as certain a rule as the judges of the 
land do when they pals fentence according to law; and 
that no infinite fpirit of Chrift, nor any God, could or 
Ihould be able to deliver from his fentence and curfe.” 
This paper produced a remonftrance from the prefs, by 
Richard Farnfworth, a zealous minifter among the qua- 
kers, on the profanenefs and criminality of his extrava¬ 
gant claims; but it had no other effe£t than that of pro¬ 
voking a paper in reply from Muggleton, in which he 
infilled, “ that he was as true an ambaflador of God, and 
judge of all men’s fpiritual eftate, as any ever was fince 
the creation of the world.” He is alfo faid to have re¬ 
garded himfelf as above ordinances of every kind, not 
excepting prayer and preaching; to have reje&ed creeds 
and all church-difcipline and authority; and to have ac¬ 
knowledged but one perfon in the godhead. At length 
the magistrates took cognizance of his condutt and pre¬ 
tenfions ; and he was fentenced to the pillory and fix 
months imprifonment, while his writings were burnfby 
the common hangman. He died in 1697-8, at the age of 
ninety. Sewell's Hift. of the Quakers, vol. ii. Neal's Mif. 
Purit. vol. iv. * . 
MUGGLETO'NIAN, f One of the fea of enthufiafts 
juft mentioned.—The Seekers, a fea in thofe times, re¬ 
nounced all ordinances; and fo did the fea of the Mug - 
gletonians. Grey's Notes on Hudibras. 
MUG'GUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: fifteen 
miles weft of Gooracpour. Lat.i6.44-N. I0n.83.i4-E. 
MUG'GY, or Muggish, adj. [corrupted from mucky, 
for damp.] Moift; damp; mouldy.—Cover with muggy 
ftraw to keep it moift. Mortimer. —Thick 5 clofe ; milty ; 
[from murky, which fee.] 
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