Chapter Mop to Mormon of M by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

of Ogier the Dane, and after he had finished his earthly career, restored him to perpetual youth, and took him to live with her in everlasting love in the isle and castle of Avalon.

Moribund Declining; in a dying state; on its last legs. Turkey is called a moribund state. Institutions on the decline are called moribund. Applied to institutions, commercial companies, states, etc. (Latin, moribundus, ready to die.)

Morisonianism The religious system of James Morison, the chief peculiarities being the doctrines of universal atonement, and the ability of man unaided to receive or reject the Gospel. James Morison, in 1841, separated from the “United Secession,” now merged into the “United Presbyterian.” The Morisonians call themselves the “Evangelical Union.”

Morley (Mrs.). The name under which Queen Anne corresponded with Mrs. Freeman (the Duchess of Marlborough).

Morma in Pepys's Diary, is Elizabeth, daughter of John Dickens, who died October 22nd, 1662.

Mormon The last of a pretended line of Hebrew prophets, and the pretended author of The Book of Mormon, or Golden Bible, written on golden plates. This work was in reality written by the Rev. Solomon Spalding, but was claimed by Joseph Smith as a direct revelation to him by the angel Moroni. Spalding died in 1816; Smith, 1844.