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. Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ. Hooker. You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements. Coleridge. Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. Sir W. Hamilton.

Moderation; temperance. [Obs.] Hooker.

names; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself. Hooker.

petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature. T. Hook.

One who petitions by a memorial. T. Hook.

civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch. Hook.

l. "Ministerial offices." Bacon. "A ministerial measure." Junius. "Ministerial garments." Hooker.

nd. Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. Hooker.

To make wrong distinctions in or concerning. Hooker.

Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] Hooker.

The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients. Hooker.

Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind. Hooker.

neasy; to interfere with; to vex. They have molested the church with needless opposition. Hooker.

Momentary. [Obs.] Hooker. "Momentany as a sound." Shak.

Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue. Hooker. Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.

like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care. Hooker.

The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached. Sir P. Sidney.

n yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.

clif. Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands. Hooker.

mystic gulf from God to man. Emerson. God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural. Hooker.