Glossary of Latin Words.
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- ministerium:—a trade; a credence, among Carthusians, Cistercians and Premonstratensian canons.
- ministralcia:—minstrelsy.
- ministrallus, ministraulus:—a minstrel.
- minorissa:—a Minoress, a nun of S. Clare.
- minstrellus:—a minstrel. See menestrallus.
- minitor:—a miner.
- minorare:—to lessen.
- minta:—mint.
- minuare:—to damage.
- minuere:—to let blood.
- minuta:—a draft, a minute.
- minutio:—bleeding.
- misa:-.—agreement; arbitration; cost, expense.
- miscuare:—to mix.
- misdocere:—to misinform; to misadvise.
- misellus:—a leper.
- misericordia:—an arbitrary line; a gratuitous portion of food given in addition to commons; a hall in a monastery where additional commons were given; a dagger; a wooden turn up seat in the choir of a church.
- misevenire:—to fail.
- misprisio:—misprision, culpable concealment of crime.
- missa:—mass. See also misa.
- missale:—a massbook, a missal.
- missaticum:—a message.
- missaticus:—a messenger.
- missum:— a gift given to the King or Prince of Wales on entering Wales.
- missura:—religious ceremonies at death.
- missurium:—a dish, or mess.
- mistera, misterium:—trade; mistery (ministerium).
- mitra:—a kerchief.
- mitta:—a measure of corn, &c.
- mixtilio. See meslilo.
- mixtorium:— a rudder, an implement used in mixing malt.
- mixtum:— breakfast of bread and wine in a monastery; translated "pottage" in the Rule of St. Benedict, cap. xxxviij. (1875).
- modiatio:— duty paid on wine or corn, measured by the muid.
- moeta:—a half.
- mola:—a millstone.
- molatio:—multure.
- molda:—a mould.
- moldera, moldru:—multure.
- molendinarius:— a miller.
- molendinator:—a miller.
- molendinum:—a mill.
- molestra:—a sheepskin.
- molinum:—a mill.
- molitura, moltura:— grinding; corn taken to a mill to be ground; grist; payment for grinding, multure; a lord's right to make tenants grind at his mill.
- molliare:—to knead.
- mollicio:—grinding.
- molneda:—a millpool.
- molta:— toll paid by vaseals for grinding corn at the lord's mill.
