MODERN. To Mock. To pretend; to simulate; to feign. I long till Edward fall by war's mischance, Antony and Cleopatra, v. 1. MODE. Form; method. Henry 4, P. 2, iv. 4. O England!-model to thy inward greatness, Henry 5, i. Chorus. In some large measure to thy father's death, Richard 2, i. 2. Come, bring forth this counterfeit model. All's well that ends well, iv. 3. MODERN. Trite; common; ordinary. And then the justice, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, As you like it, ii. 7. Those that are in extremity of either are abominable fellows, and betray themselves to every modern censure worse than drunkards. Ibid. iv. 1. Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation. King John, iii. 4. Her infinite cunning, with her modern grace, Subdu'd me to her rate. All's well that ends well, v. Immoment toys, things of such dignity As we greet modern friends withal. 3. Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2. They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. All's well that ends well, ii. 3. Greater. Richard 3, iii. 1. But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. Comedy of Errors, ii. 2. More reasons for this action At our more leisure shall I render you. Measure for Measure, i. 3. To make a more requital to your love. K. John, ii. 1. Macbeth, v. 4. The more and less came in with cap and knee. Henry 4, P. 1, iv. 3. And my more-having would be as a sauce To make me hunger more. MOONISH. Like the moon; inconstant ; fickle. MORE ABOVE. At which time would I, being but a moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing, and liking. As you like it, iii. 2. Moreover. And more above, hath his solicitings, Macbeth, iv. 3. As they fell out by time, by means, and place, All given to mine ear. MORISCO. A morris-dancer. Hamlet, ii. 2. And, in the end being rescu'd, I have seen Henry 6, P. 2, iii. 1. MORT. A tune or flourish formerly played at the death or mort of the deer. And then to sigh, as 'twere the mort o' the deer. MORTAL. Deadly; fatal; heinous. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here. Macbeth, i. 5. EE 210 MOTIVE. MOTHER. The superior of a nunnery. No longer staying but to give the mother Notice of my affair. Measure for Measure, i. 4. MOTION. Frame; body; puppet-show; puppet; proposal; impulse; notion; help; service; cogitation; mind. This sensible warm motion to become Measure for Measure, iii. 1. O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet! I have a motion much imports your good. Yes, I agree, and thank Measure for Measure, v. 1. you for your motion. Henry 6, P. 3, iii. 3. Like a common and an outward man, All's well that ends well, iii. 1. Masters o' the people, MOUNTANT. Raised; spread out. Hold up, you sluts, your aprons mountant. Timon of Athens, iv. 3. Mow. A wry face; a grimace. And those that would make mows at him while my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats apiece for his picture in little. For apes and monkeys, Hamlet, ii. 2. 'Twixt two such shes, would chatter this way, and Condemn with mous the other. TO MOUNTEBANK. To play the mountebank; To Mow. To make mouths. to cheat; to impose upon. I'll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them, and come home belov'd Of all the trades in Rome. Cymbeline, i. 6. Coriolanus, iii. 2. Tempest, ii. 2. MUCH. Great; exceeding. Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness. Measure for Measure, v. 1. |