Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MUN-DAN'I-TY, a.

Worldliness. [Not used.] Mountague.

MUN-DA'TION, n. [L. mundus; clean.]

The act of cleansing. [Not used.]

MUN'DA-TO-RY, a. [L. mundo, to cleanse.]

Cleansing; having power to cleanse. [Little used.]

MUN'DIC, n.

A kind of marcasite; a mineral substance, so called from its shining appearance. [Obs.] Woodward.

MUN-DIF'I-CANT, a.

A term given to certain healing ointments.

MUN-DI-FI-CA'TION, n. [L. mundus, clean, and facio, to make.]

The act or operation of cleansing any body from dross or extraneous matter. Quincy.

MUN-DIF'I-CA-TIVE, a.

Cleansing; having the power to cleanse. Wiseman.

MUN-DIF'I-CA-TIVE, n.

A medicine that has the quality of cleansing.

MUN'DI-FY, v.t. [L. mundus, clean, and facio, to make.]

To cleanse. [Little used.] Harvey.

MUN-DIV'A-GANT, a. [L. mundus, and vagor, vagans.]

Wandering over the world.

MUN-DUN'GUS, n.

Tobacco of an ill smell.

MU'NER-A-RY, a. [L. munus, a gift.]

Having the nature of a gift. [Little used.] Johnson.

MU'NER-ATE, or MU-NE-RA-TION, v. [Not used.]

[See REMUNERATE.]

MUN'GREL, a.

Generated between different varieties; degenerate. Shak. Dryden.

MUN'GREL, n. [See Mongrel.]

An animal generated between different varieties, as a dog.

MU-NI'CI-PAL, a. [Fr. from L. municipalis, from municeps, a person who enjoys the rights of a free citizen; munus, office, duty, and capio, to take.]

1. Pertaining to a corporation or city; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.
2. Pertaining to a state, kingdom or nation. Municipal law is properly defined to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. Blackstone. Municipal, as used by the Romans, originally designated that which pertained to a municipium, a free city or town. It still retains this limited sense, but we have extended it to what belongs to a state or nation, as a distinct, independent body. Municipal law or regulation respects solely the citizens of a state, and is thus distinguished from commercial law, political laws and the law of nations.

MU-NIC-I-PAL'I-TY, n.

In France, a certain district or division of the country; also, its inhabitants. Burke.

MU-NIF'I-CATE, v.t.

To enrich. [Not in use.]

MU-NIF'I-CENCE, n. [Fr. from L. munificentia; munus, gift or favor, and facio, to make.]

1. A giving or bestowing liberally; bounty; liberality. To constitute munificence, the act of conferring must be free and proceed from generous motives. A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and munificence. Addison.
2. In Spenser, fortification or strength. [L. munio, to fortify.] [Not used.]

MU-NIF'I-CENT, a.

Liberal in giving or bestowing; generous; as, a munificent benefactor or patron. Atterbury.

MU-NIF'I-CENT-LY, adv.

Liberally; generously.

MU'NI-MENT, n. [L. munimentum, from munio, to fortify.]

1. A fortification of any kind; a strong hold; a place of defense.
2. Support; defense. Shak.
3. Record; a writing by which claims and rights are defended or maintained. Termes de la ley. Johnson's Rep.

MU'NITE, v.t.

To fortify. [Not in use.] Bacon.

MU-NI'TION, n. [Fr. from L. munitio, from munio, to fortify. The primary sense is that which is set or fixed, or that which defends, drives back or hinders. Indeed, both senses may be from the same root, Heb. and Ch. מנע, Ar. مَنَعَ manaa, or Heb. אמן amen. Class Mn, No. 10, 12.]

1. Fortification. [Obs.] Hale.
2. Ammunition; whatever materials are used in war for defence, or for annoying an enemy. The word includes guns of all kinds, mortars, &c. and their loading.
3. Provisions of a garrison or fortress, or for ships of war and in general for an army; stores of all kinds for a fort an army or navy. Munition-ships, ships which convey military and naval store of any kind, and attend or follow a fleet to supply ships of war.

MU'NITY, n.

Freedom; security. [Not used. See Immunity.]