Macdill, Daa'id, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in South Carolina, studied under the celebrated American Presbyterian pulpit orator and theologian Dr. John Mason, of New York, and commenced preaching in Ohio. Macdill spent the latter part of his life in suc- cessfully performing the duties of an editor and director in collegiate and theological institutions. He died June 15, 1870.
Mace, FR.vxq'Ois, a French theologian and Biblical writer, was born in Paris in 1640, and became success- ivelj' canon and curate of Sainte-Opportune. He was also counsellor and almoner to the king. He died iu Paris Feb. 5, 1721, His works are, Psauines et Cantiques de VEglise (Paris, 1677) : — Ahrege historique, chronolo- gique, et moral de VAncien et du Noiiveait Testament (Par. 1704, 2 vols, 12mo) : — La Science de I'Ecritin-e Sainte, j-eduite en quati-e tables generales (Paris, 1708, 8vo), con- taining a comparison of the Old with the New Testa- ment : — Les Testaments des dotize Patriarchts (Par. 1713, 12mo) : — Meditations (of Busee, 2 vols, r2mo) : — L'lmi- tution de Jesus-Christ (Par. 1698-9) : — Epitns et Evan- gilcs des dimanches et fetes, et pour le Carenie et VAvent (2d ed. Par. 2 vols. 12mo) : — ifclanie, ou la vetive chari- table:— L'Esjyrit de Saint Avgustin, ou analyse de tout les ouvrages de ce pii-e (5007 pages 8vo) : — Explication des Propheties de VAncien et du Nouveau Testament qui prourent que Jesus-Chiist est le Ei/s de Diev, le verita- ble Messie et que la Religion Chretienne est la rraie et seule religion, ouvi-age en deux parties et destine "a con- fondre les athees, les impies, les libertins, ks Juifs, les hi'
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Macedo, Antonio, .a Portuguese Jesuit and writer, was born at Coimbra in 1612. He was regent and instriTctor among the Jesuits, and passed two years in the African missions. He had charge of the confes- sional of the Vatican church until 1671, from which time he directed the CoUege of Evora, and afterwards that of Lisbon. He died at Lisbon in 1693. His worlvs are, among others, Elogia nonnulla et descriptio Corona- tivnis Christince, regince Suecice (Stockholm, 1650) : — Limtania infulata et purpui-ata, seu pontijicibu^ et car- dinalihus illustrata (Paris, 1663, 1673, 4to) : — E>e Vita et Moribus Joannis de A Imeida (Padua, 1669 ; Rome, 1671) : — Did tutelares orbis Christiani (Lisbon, 1687).
Macedo, Francisco de, a Portuguese Jesuit and proline writer, was born at Coimbra in 1596, entered the Jesuit order at foiu-teen, and became successivel}' teacher of rhetoric, philosophy, and chronology. In 1630 he left the Jesuits and entered the order of Cordeliers, with the surname Francois de Saint-A ugustin, under which most of his works are published. He was called to the professorship of polemic theology in the College of the Propaganda at Rome, and afterwards (1657) visited Venice, lecturing de omni re scibili. He occupied the chair of moral philosophy at the Universitj' of Padua from 1667 until the time of his death in Jlay, 1680. In 1675 he had composed 53 panegyrics, 60 Latin discourses, 32 funeral orations, 123 elegies, 115 epitaphs, 212 dedica- tory epistles, 700 familiar epistles, 2600 epic poems, 110 odes, 3000 epigrams, 4 Latin comedies, 2 tragedies, and 1 Spanish satire. He had a sharp discussion with car- dinal Bona on the subject of consubstantiation, and with cardinal Noris on tlie monachism of St. Augustine. Among his writings are Apotheosis S. Francisci Xaverii (Lisbon, 1620, 8vo), an epic poem : — Thesaurits Ei-udi- tionis pro sole, Viridarium ehquentia (denoting the au- thor's vanity): — Scrinium S. Angustini de jircedestina- iione gratice et libera arbiti-io (Paris, 1648, 4to ; 3d edit. Lond. 1654) : — Controveisia ecclesiastica inter F. F. Mi- nores (1653, 8vo) : — Lituiis Lusitanus, contra tubam An- glicanam (Lond. 1652, 4to) : — Encyclopcedia in Agonem litteratorum producta (Rome, 1657): — De clavibus Patri, iv lib. (Rome, 1660) : — Theatrum Meteorologicum (Rome, 1661, 8vo): — Scholce Theologue jMsitirce (Rome, 1664): — Medulla historim ecclesiasticie emaculata : — Collationes doctrime S. Thomm et Scoti, cum differentiis inter utrum- que (Padua, 1671, 2 vols.) : — Joannis Bona Doctrina de usufernientati in sacrificio missce (Ingolstadt [Venice], 1673, 8vo; reprint Verona) : — Disquisitio de ritu azgmi etfermentali (Verona, 1673, 4to) : — Myrothecuim moixde documenforum xiii (Padua, 1675, 4to) : — Schema Congre- gationis S. Officii Romani cum elogiis cardinalium et co- rollarium de inf(dlihiU auctoritate summi jwntijicis in mysteriis jirlci proponendis (Padua, 1676, 4to) : — Elogia poetica in Hemp. Venctam, cum iconibus (Padua, 1680) ; — De Incarnationis Mystei-io (Padua, 1681), containing also Itinerarium sancti A ugustini. See Hoefer, Ko'^v. Biog. Generale, s. v. ; Wetzer and Welte, Kirchen-Lexi- hon, xii, 748.
Macedo'nia (MaKt^ovia, from a supposed founder jMaceihiiig (ir Miicedon), a name originally confined to the district lying north of Thessaly, east of the Car- danian mountains (a prolongation of jMount I'indus), and west of the River Axius ; but afterwards extended to the country lying to the north of Greece Proper, hav- ing on the east Thrace and the .Ega3an Sea, on the west the Adriatic and Illyria, on the north Dardania and Moesia, and on the south Thessaly and Epirus. "In a rough and jiopular description it is enough to say that Macedonia is the region bounded inland bv the range of Hasmus or the Balkan nortlnvards and the chain of Pindus westwards, beyond which the streams tlow re- spectively to the Danube and Adriatic ; that it is sep- arated from Thessaly on the south by the Cambuiiian