What scourage for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false
Clarence.
Shak.
Fifth monarchy, a universal monarchy, supposed to be the subject of
prophecy in Daniel ii.; the four preceding monarchies being Assyrian,
Persian, Grecian, and Roman. See Fifth Monarchy men, under Fifth.
||Mo"nas (?), n. [NL. See Monad.] (Zoöl.) A genus of minute flagellate
||Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached.
||See Illust. under Monad.
Mon`as*te"ri*al (?), a. [L. monasterials, fr. monasterium.] Of or
pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life. -- Mon`as*te"ri*al*ly,
adv.
Mon"as*te*ry (?), n.; pl. Monasteries (#). [L. monasterium, Gr. &?;,
fr. &?; a solitary, a monk, fr. &?; to be alone, live in solitude, fr.
mo`nos alone. Cf. Minister.] A house of religious retirement, or of
secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more
rarely applied to such a house for females.
Syn. -- Convent; abbey; priory. See Cloister.
Mo*nas"tic (?), n. A monk.
{ Mo*nas"tic (?), Mo*nas"tic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?; monk: cf. F.
monastique. See Monastery.] 1. Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to
their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.
2. Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse. "A
life monastic." Denham.
Mo*nas"tic*al*ly, adv. In a monastic manner.
Mo*nas"ti*cism (?), n. The monastic life, system, or condition. Milman.
Mo*nas"ti*con (?), n. [NL. See Monastic.] A book giving an account of
monasteries.
Mon`a*tom"ic (?), adv. [Mon- + atomic.] (Chem.) (a) Consisting of, or
containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic. (b)
Having the equivalence or replacing power of an atom of hydrogen;
univalent; as, the methyl radical is monatomic.
Mo*nax"i*al (?), a. [Mon- + axial.] (Biol.) Having only one axis;
developing along a single line or plane; as, monaxial development.
Mon"a*zite (mn"*zt), n. [From Gr. mona`zein to be solitary, in allusion
to its isolated crystals.] (Min.) A mineral occurring usually in small
isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals.
Mon"day (mn"d; 48), n. [OE. moneday, monenday, AS. mnandæg, i.e., day
of the moon, day sacred to the moon; akin to D. maandag, G. montag,
OHG. mnatag, Icel. mnadagr, Dan. mandag, Sw. måndag. See Moon, and
Day.] The second day of the week; the day following Sunday.
||Monde (môNd), n. [F. See Mundane.] The world; a globe as an ensign of
||royalty. [R.] A. Drummond.
||Le beau monde [F.], fashionable society. See Beau monde. -- ||Demi
||monde. See Demimonde.
Mone (?), n. The moon. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Mone, n. A moan. [Obs.] Chaucer.
{ Mo*ne"cian (?), Mo*ne"cious (?), } a. (Bot.) See Monœcian, and
Monœcious.
Mon*em"bry*o*ny (?), n. [See Mono- , and Embryo.] (Bot.) The condition
of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on"ic (#), a.
Mo"ner (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Monera.
||Mo*ne"ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. mo`nos single.] (Zoöl.) The lowest
||division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amœbas, but
||are destitute of a nucleus.
Mo*ne"ral (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Monera.
Mo*ne"ran (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Monera. -- n. One of
the Monera.
||Mo*ne"ron (?), n.; pl. L. Monera (#); E. Monerons (#). [NL.] (Zoöl.)
||One of the Monera.
||Mo*ner"u*la (?), n. [NL., dim. of moner. See Monera.] (Biol.) A germ
||in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a
||non- nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ.
||So called from its likeness to a moner. Haeckel.
Mo*ne"sia (?), n. (Pharm.) The bark, or a vegetable extract brought in
solid cakes from South America and believed to be derived from the
bark, of the tree Chrysophyllum glycyphlœum. It is used as an
alterative and astringent.
Mo*ne"sin (?), n. The acrid principle of Monesia, sometimes used as a
medicine.
Mo*nest" (?), v. t. [See Admonish.] To warn; to admonish; to advise.
[Obs.] Wyclif (2 Cor. v. 20).
Mon"e*ta*ry (?), a. [L. monetarius belonging to a mint. See Money.] Of
or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary. "The
monetary relations of Europe." E. Everett.
Monetary unit, the standard of a national currency, as the dollar in
the United States, the pound in England, the franc in France, the mark
in Germany.
Mon"eth (?), n. A month. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Mon`e*ti*za"tion (?), n. The act or process of converting into money,
or of adopting as money; as, the monetization of silver.
Mon"e*tize (?), v. t. To convert into money; to adopt as current money;
as, to monetize silver.
Mon"ey (?), n.; pl. Moneys (#). [OE. moneie, OF. moneie, F. monnaie,
fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf.
Moidore, Monetary.] 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc.,
coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium
of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with
government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.
To prevent such abuses, . . . it has been found necessary . . . to
affix a public stamp upon certain quantities of such particular
metals, as were in those countries commonly made use of to purchase
goods. Hence the origin of coined money, and of those public
offices called mints.
A. Smith.
2. Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a
government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is
payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it;
in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in
buying and selling.
Whatever, among barbarous nations, is used as a medium of effecting
exchanges of property, and in the terms of which values are reckoned,
as sheep, wampum, copper rings, quills of salt or of gold dust, shovel
blades, etc., is, in common language, called their money.
3. In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in
stocks; to make, or lose, money.
The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.