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(Eccl.
Hist) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second
century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting
principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third
power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of
man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. Brande &
C.

||Mar`co*brun"ner (?), n. [G.
Marcobrunner.] A celebrated Rhine wine.

||Mar"cor (?), n. [L., fr.
marcere to wither.] A wasting away of flesh; decay.
[Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Mar*co"sian (?), n. (Eccl.
Hist.) One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so
called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a
margician.

||Mar"di` gras" (?), n. [F., literally,
fat Tuesday.] The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in
some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.

Mare (mâr), n. [OE. mere,
AS. mere, myre, fem of AS. mearh horse, akin to
D. merrie mare, G.

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