a religious sect which arose in England about the year 1657, and were so denominated from their leader Lodowick Muggleton, a journeyman tailor, who, with his associate Reeves, set up for great prophets, pretending, as it is said, to have an absolute power of saving and damning whomsoever they pleased; and giving out that they were the two last witnesses of God who should appear before the end of the world.
MUGLITZ, a city of the circle of Olmutz, in the Austrian province of Moravia. It stands on the river March, is surrounded with walls, and is the see of an archbishop, whose cathedral is there. It contains 368 houses, and 3013 inhabitants, some of whom are occupied in woollen manufactures.