15,000 words and phrases from more than 50 languages and their

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médaille [Fr], medal. —médaille d'honneur, prize medal. —médaille
militaire, military decoration.
medaño [Sp], sand dune.
médecine expectante [Fr], medical treatment in which the cure is left
largely to nature: med.
médecin, guéris-toi toi-même [Fr], physician, heal thyself: Luke iv. 23.
μηδβν cryctv [Gr; mêdèn ágan], nothing too much; no excess. Cf. NE
QUID NIMIS.
medice, cura te ipsum [L], physician, heal thyself: Vulgate (Luke iv. 23).
medicina [Sp], medicine.
mediocria firma [L], a middle course is the most secure; moderation
is safer than extremes.
medio tutissimus ibis [L], in the middle course you will go most safely;
a middle course will be safest: Ovid.
meditado fugae [L], contemplation of flight: law.
medium tenuere beati [L], happy are they who have kept a middle
course.
megillah [Yiddish fr. Heb], a long, complex story or explanation.
—Megillah [Heb], lit., a scroll; each of five books of Jewish Scriptures,
esp. the Book of Esther, read at the feast of Purim.
meglio un uovo oggi che una gallina domani [It], better an egg today
than a chicken tomorrow.
mehr Licht! [Ger], more light: Goethe (last words).
mehtar or mihtar [Hind & Pers.; fern, mehtrani or mihtrani], orig.,
prince; now a euphemistic appellation for a sweeper or scavenger:
India.
meine Ruh' ist hin, mein Herz ist schwer [Ger], my peace is gone,
my heart is heavy: Goethe (Gretchen's song in Faust).
meines Bedünken [Ger], in my opinion; to my thinking.
mein Gott! [Ger], my God! for Heaven's sake!
mein Herr [Ger; pi. meine Herren], usual German form of address,
equivalent to Sir.
me iudice [L], I being judge; in my opinion,
μη κρίν€Τ€ ινα μή κριθήτε [Gr; me krínete hína më krithête], judge
not, that ye be not judged: Matthew vii. 1.
mélange [Fr], mixture; medley;/?/., miscellaneous collection; miscellanea.
mêlé [Fr; fern, mêlée], mixed; miscellaneous.
mêlée [Fr], hand-to-hand fight; fray; skirmish; squabble; clash.
meliores priores [L], the better, the first; the better (men) first.
melioribus annis [L], in the better years; in happier times: Virgil.
me, me adsum qui feci [L], it is I, here before you, who did the deed:
Virgil.
memento mori [L], remember you must die; an object (such as a skull)
serving as a reminder of death,
μέμνησο άπιστειν [Gr; mémnëso apisteîn], remember to distrust.