Mandrake Mandrake. A fruit-producing plant with dark green leaves and small bluish-purple flowers. The mandrake is a relative of the potato family which grew abundantly throughout Palestine and the Mediterranean region. The yellow fruit of the mandrake was small, sweet-tasting, and fragrant. It had narcotic qualities and may have been used medicinally. The fruit of … Continue reading “Mandrake”
Mandra
Mandra (sheepfold), a name given to a monastery in the Greek Church. SEE ARCHIMANDRITE. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Mandingo Version Of The Scriptures
Mandingo Version Of The Scriptures The Mandingo is the most important language of modern Negroland, and predominates in many powerful states on both sides of the Gambia. The Reverend Mr. Macbrair, a Wesleyan missionary, was the first to undertake the translation of the Scriptures in this widely extended language. The gospel according to Matthew was … Continue reading “Mandingo Version Of The Scriptures”
Mandingo
Mandingo is the name of an African people, the nation of the Wangarawa-according to Barth, comprising some 6,000,000 or more. Strictly speaking, however, Mandingoes should be termed only the inhabitants of the most south- westerly territories belonging to the great West African race of the Wangarawa (sing. Wangara), and inhabiting a district extending in lat. … Continue reading “Mandingo”
Mandeville, Jean de
Mandeville, Jean de Alleged author of a celebrated medieval book of travels. The real writer, Jean. de Bourgogue (died c.1372), whose journeyings were limited to Egypt, adopted the name Mandeville in describing his supposed wanderings through Africa and Asia, as he was plagiarizing most of his work from the writings of the early Dominican and … Continue reading “Mandeville, Jean de”
Mandeville, Henry
Mandeville, Henry D.D., a (Dutch) Reformed minister, was born at Kinderhook, N. Y., March 6, 1804; graduated at Union College in 1826, and at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1829, and was licensed by the Classis of Albany in 1829. His ministry was chiefly spent in the Reformed Church in the State of New York, … Continue reading “Mandeville, Henry”
Mandeville, Bernard de
Mandeville, Bernard de a skeptical writer inthe English tongue, was born of French extraction about 1670 at Dort, Holland, and went to England near the opening of the 18th century. He practiced medicine in London, but does not appear to have had much success as a physician, and depended mainly on his literary activity for … Continue reading “Mandeville, Bernard de”
Mandata de Providendo
Mandata de Providendo SEE EXPECTANTIA. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Mandar
Mandar in Hindu mythology, is the great mountain which the gods carried into the milky sea, wound the snake Adisseschen about it, and by churning it produced the food of the gods, Amrita. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Mandan Indians
Mandan Indians A formerly important, but now reduced, tribe occupying jointly with the Hidatsa (Minitari or Grosventre) and Arikara (Ree) the Fort Berthold reservation, on both sides of the Missouri, near its conjunction with the Knife River, North Dakota. The Mandan and Hidatsa are of Siouan linguistic stock, the latter speaking the same language as … Continue reading “Mandan Indians”