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The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.

A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.

The principles of the low-church party.

The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.

The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.

A lyric composition. Gray.

The act of playing on a lyre or harp. G. Eliot.

The doctrines of Macedonius.

The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.

A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.

wer of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections. "By the magnetism of interest our affections are irresistibly attracted." Glanvill. Animal magnetism, a force, more or less analogous to magnetism, which, it has been alleged, is produced in animal tissues, and passes from one body to another w…

See Mahdism.

Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title. -- Mah"dist (#), n.

See Mohammedanism.

See Mohammedanism.

See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism.

A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.

The philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.

The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population.

Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness. Carlyle.