in Architecture, a certain measure, or bigness, taken at pleasure, for regulating the proportions of columns, and the symmetry or disposition of the whole building. Architects generally choose the semidiameter of the bottom of the column for their module, and this they subdivide into parts or minutes.

MCEONIA, or MCEONIA. See MCEONIA and LYDIA.

MCESTIA, or MYSTIA, in Ancient Geography, a country of Europe, extending from the confluence of the Savaus and the Danube to the shores of the Euxine. It was divided into Upper and Lower Mcezia. Lower Mcezia was on the borders of the Euxine, and comprehended that tract of country which received the name of Pontus from its vicinity to the sea. Upper Mcezia lay beyond the other, in the inland country.