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MEASURE (quantity), s. mensura : ( due 
limit, &c.), modus : ( moderation ), mode- 
ratio. — Dry measure, mensura arido- 
rum. — To buy or sell by measure, ali- 
quid mensura emere, vendere. — To 
take measure of (as tailors), vestem con- 
ficiendam ad corporis modulum meti- 
ri. — A measure of wine, vini modus. 
— Beyond measure, adj. immoderatus, 
immodicus. — Beyond measure, adv. im¬ 
moderate, immodice ; prater or supra 
mod urn. — They are angry beyond meas¬ 
ure, illis ira supra modum est. — Out of 
measure, immodice; extra, prater or 
supra modum. — Within measure, intra 
modum.— In some measure, a! iquale- 
nus, aliqua ex parte. — I have hard 
measure or am hardly dealt with, acerbe, 
austere, rigide, severe, inique mecum 
agitur.-IT (plan, purpose, way), ratio ; 
consilium ; propositum ; remedium. — 
To break through or destroy the measures 
taken by others, aliorum consilia dissol- 
vere, confringere, evertere, frangere, 
conturbare. — To take measures, pro 
spicio; consilia capere or inire. — To 
take bad measures, male rationibus suis 
consulere or prospicere; inconsulte ac 
temere res suscipere. — To lake good 
or proper measures, bene, prudenter 
sapienter rationibus suis consulere or 
prospicere ; caute res administrate. — 
To take new measures, consilia mutare 
alia, rem aggredi via; aliter sibi consu¬ 
lere.-ir Some measures are to be ob- 
served even towards those from whom 
you have received injuries, sunt autem 
qu®dam officia etiam adversus eos 
servanda, a quibus injuriam accepe- 
ris. 
To Measure (compute the quantity), meti 
or, demetior, dimetior. — friendship 
by interest, amicitias utilitate probare. 
— He measured his favors in propor¬ 
tion to his wealth, largiendi rationem 
ad facultates accommodavit.— To meas¬ 
ure another’s corn by one’s own bushel, 
alio 3 suo modulo metiri; alios sui simi¬ 
les putare. — To measure out, admetior, 
emetior. — To measure with the eye or 
survey, permetior; oculis lustrare. — 
To measure over again, remetior. — To 
measure (moderate), moderor. — Meas¬ 
ured, mensus, dimensus, emensus, per- 
mensus, metatus. 
Measurer, mensor; metator. 
Measurable, quod metiri possumus. 
Measurably, modice, moderate, tempe¬ 
rate. 
Measuring, mensio, metalio, dimensio. 
Measureless, immensus. 
MEAT (flesh), caro : (food), cibus, esca ; 
cibaria. — Roast meat, caro assa. — 
Boiled meat, caro elixa. — A dish of meat, 
caro, caruncula. — A meat-pie, artocre- 
as .— Meat and drink, victus. — It is meat 
and drink to me, imprimis me delectat. 
— Meat, drink, and clothes, victus et 
vestitus. — To find one in meat, drink, 
mid lodging, tecta cibumque alicui dare. 
— Dainty meats, cuppedi®, cibi delica- 
tiores, irritamenta gulae. —Minced meat, 
minutal. — Sweetmeats, salgama. — 
Broken meat, frusta. — To dress meat, 
cibum coquere. — I will dress a fine dish 
of meat for your father, ego parabo cibum 
delicatum patri tuo. — To provide meat, 
opsono. — To sit down to meat, ccenas as- 
sldere, or accumbere (recline) - Meats 
dressed the day before, pridianus cibus. 
MEAT HE, hydromeli. 
MECHANIC, MECHANICAL, mecham- 
cus, machinalis. — arts, artes, artifi- 
cia. ... 
Mechanic, s. operanus; faber, opifex. 
_ IT Mechanics, ratio disciplinaque 
mechanica, scientia or doctrina machi¬ 
nalis. 
Mechanically, per macliinam or machi 
nas, mechanice ; sine judicio. 
Mechanician, mechanicus. 
Mechanism, machinatio; machinamen- 
tum. . 
MEDAL (coin), numus, numisma: (lion 
. orary, &c.), numus in memoriam (or 
honorem) alicujus cusus. 
Medallic, ad antiqua numismata ^pec- 
tans. 
Medallion, numisma majus. 
Medallist, qui antiqua numismata cal- 
let 
MEDDLE in an affair, se alicui rei ad- 
miscere or immiscere. — To meddle with, 
tracto, attrecto, euro; attingo, contin- 
go. — Meddle with your own business, 
tua quod nihil refert ne cures. — Have 
I meddled with any thing of yours ? teti- 
gin’ tui quicquam ? — I neither meddled 
nor made in that matter, mihi isthic nec 
seritur, nec metitur. — I did not meddle 
with him, nihil cum eo rationis habui.— 
We meddle not at all with state affairs, 
rempublicam null! ex parte attingimus. 
— To meddle no more, desisto. — I de¬ 
sire you to meddle no more with this busi¬ 
ness, dehinc ut quiescas porro moneo. 
— Mol to meddle with, abstineo. — I will 
not meddle any more in that matter, abji- 
cio de e3i re curam. — Meddled with, 
tractatus, contrectatus. 
Meddler (meddling person), ardelio, nuis- 
ca, factiosus. — He is a meddling fellow, 
musca est. 
Meddling with, tractatio, contrectatio ; 
attrectatus. — It is ill meddling with 
edged tools, ignem gladio ne fodito. — 
Foils will be meddling, stultorum est se 
alienis immiscere periculis. 
MEDIATE, v. intercedo, medium se in- 
terponere. 
Mediate, adj. — A mediate cause, causa 
remotior or adjuvans ; antecessio. 
Mediately, ope alterius. 
Mediation, intercessio; pacificatio. 
Mediator, intercessor, qui intercedit; 
qui suum auctoritatem interponit; con¬ 
ciliator (-trix) alicujus rei. 
Mediatorial, ad intercessionem perti- 
nens. 
Mediatorshif, intercessoris munus or 
dignitas. 
MEDICABLE (curable), sanabilis, medi- 
cabiiis. 
MEDICINE (as a science and art), medi- 
cina, ars medicamentaria or medicina- 
lis.-IT A medicine, medicina, medi- 
camen, medicamentum, potio medicata. 
— To administer or give a medicine, me¬ 
dicamentum segro dare. — To take a 
medicine, medicamentum sumere.- d 
purging medicine, medicamentum ca- 
tharticum. — A sweating medicine, me¬ 
dicamentum sudores eliciens or diaplio- 
reticum. — A sovereign medicine, rerne- 
dium prasens or efficax. — A medicine 
against poison, antidoton. — A binding 
medicine, medicamentum restringens or 
stypticum.-1 medicine to procure urine, 
medicamentum diureticum.— Of medi¬ 
cines, medicina! is. 
Medicament, medicamentum, medica- 
men, medicina, remedium. 
Medicinal, Medical, medicinalis, me- 
dicus, medicamentarius, medicatus. 
Medicinally, Medically, secundum ar- 
tem medicinalem ; salutariter. 
MEDIOCRITY, mediocritas ; modus. 
MEDITATE, meditor, commeditor; se- 
cum cogitare ; animo versare or vol- 
vere ; de aliquft re attente cogitare, se- 
cum coinmentari. — To meditate before¬ 
hand, prameditor.- Meditated, medita- 
tus, cogitatus. 
Meditating, Meditation, meditatio, 
commentatio, conteinplatio, cogitatio. 
_ A little or short meditation, brevis 
meditatio. 
Meditative, meditationi addictus or de- 
ditus. 
MEDITERRANEAN, Mediterraneus. 
MEDLAR, mespilum ; setanium (a spe¬ 
cies of it). — A medlar-tree, mespilus. 
MEDLEY, farrago; mixture. — A medley 
of good and evil, bona mixta malis. 
MEDULLARY, ad medullam pertinens. 
MEED, pramium. 
MEEK, mansuetus, placidus, mitis, denis, 
Clemens. — To grow meek, mitesco, 
mansuesco. — To make meek, lenio, de- 
linio ; mulceo, placo. 
Meekly, mansuete, placide, leniter. 
Meekness, mansuetudo, lenitudo 5 de¬ 
mentia, lenitas, placabilitas. 
MEET, adj. aptus, accommodatus, conve¬ 
niens, congruens, commodus, opportu- 
nus, idoneus, appositus, consentaneus, 
decens, dignus. — It seems meet to be 
considered, considerandum videtur. — 
It is not meet for princes, neque decorum 
principifeus est. — He thought it meet 
that, &c., censuit or lequum putavit, 
ut, etc. — Mot meet, non aptus, non ido- 
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neus, inutilis, indignus ; turpis, inho. 
nestus ; alienus. — Very meet, perop- 
portunus. — It is meet, convenit, expe¬ 
rt it, decet, par est. — It is not meet, haud 
convenit. — It is meet for my purpose 
proposito meo congruit— If the situa¬ 
tion be meet for the purpose, si situs ita 
coinpetat. — As it was meet, ut par erat 
ita ut oequum fuit. — To be meet, com 
peto. — To make meet or fit, apto, ac- 
commodo, concinno, attempero_ To 
think meet, censeo. 
Meetly, apte, convenienter, digne. 
Meetness, convenientia. 
MEET, v. obvenio, occurro; adversus or 
obviam ire, obviam fieri or esse : (come 
together), convenio, coeo ; concurro, 
confluo : (to obviate, remedy), occurro, 
obviam ire. — Who met me first, qui 
mihi primus obvenisset. — He met me 
at the time, ad tempus occurrit. — I sent 
him word to meet me, scripsi ad eum ut 
mihi occurreret. — He appointed to meet 
me to-day, decreverat hodie dare sese 
mihi obviam. — To meet with or light 
upon, offendo. — If 1 meet you in this 
street, si in platei h£tc te ofFendero. 
— To meet one by chance, in aliquem 
casu incurrere or incidere. — You 
meet me very opportunely, optime te mi¬ 
hi offers.— Well met, optato advenis. 
— Since we are met, quoniam conve- 
nlmus. — But if we chance to meet with it 
storm, si vero procella incesserit or in- 
gruerit. — I never met with that passage, 
nunquam occurrit mihi iste locus.— } 
met with many remarkable passages, mul- 
ta mihi memoratu dignaoccurrerunt.— 
He met with many crosses, multis ;erum- 
nis conflictatus est. — He is not to be met 
with, high or low, nusquam gentium ap- 
paret. — To go to meet one, alicui obviam 
procedere or prodire. — To meet often, 
occurso. — Meeting, obvius, congressus 
-1| See Clash, Coincide. 
Meeting together, s. congressio, occur- 
sus, concursus. --IT A meeting (as¬ 
sembly), conventus, frequentia,‘homi- 
num congressio. — A great meeting of 
people, maxima populi frequentia. — 
The meeting of two streams, confluens 
— A meeting-house, conventiculum.- 
|| See Assembly. 
MEGRIM, vertigo. — Troubled with the 
mcirrim, vertigine laborans. 
MELANCHOLY, tristitia et perpetuata- 
ciuirnitas, imestitia. — Subject to melan¬ 
choly, ingenii parum lieti. 
Melancholy, adj. tristis, maestus; pres- 
sus ac flebilis (of music, &c.). — Some¬ 
what melancholy, subtristis.— To be mel¬ 
ancholy, tristitia. affectum esse, in ms- 
stitia esse. — In a melancholy mood, tris¬ 
tis, miestus. 
MELIORATE (make better), meliorem 
reddere or facere. 
Melioration, correctio, emendatio. 
MELL (minirle), misceo, commisceo. 
MELLIFLUENT, melle fluens, mellifflu- 
ens (poet.). 
MELLOW, mitis, mollis; matures: (m 
liquor), madidus, teinulentus. — To 
grow mellow, mitesco. — To grow mel¬ 
low or warm with liquor, potu calescere. 
_ When he is mellow, what pranks does 
he tell me! is, ubi ad bibit plus paulo, 
quae sua narrat facinora! — To grow 
mellow, as wine, languescere. — Mellow 
apples, m itia pom a. — Mot mellow, w- 
dus, crudus, acerbus, immitis. — Very 
mellow or thorough ripe, permitis, value 
matures, permaturus. 
Mellowness, mollitia or mollifies. 
MELODY, modulatio ; modi, moduli; 
cantfis dulcedo. — Without melody, im- 
modulatus. 
modulatus: suavis, cano- 
Melodious, 
Melodiously, modulate, suaviter, dulci- 
ter ; numerose. 
Melodiousness, suavitas. 
MELON, melo. — A musk-melon, mem 
odoratus. 
MELT, v. a. liquefacio, liquo, resoivo, 
conflo: — v. n. liquefio, liquesco, li¬ 
quor, resolvor, tabesco, discutior. 
melt metals, metalla liquefacere or n- 
quare. — To melt away (of 
&c.), attenuari. — My money melts aw J 
like butter in the sun, promus sum mg 
quain condus. — To melt into tears, 
