MACEDONIANS, followers of Macedo nius, author of the Macedonian heresy; also called Pneumatomachi, or f4 Adversaries of the Spirit.* The Macedonians came into existence toward the decline of the Arian controversy, when Macedonius became patriarch of Con stantinople (341), and taught that the Holy Ghost was °subordinate to the Father and to the Son, unlike to them in substance, and a creature.° He was a semi-Arian; was deposed by the Arians in 360; and his special tenets condemned at the Council of Constantinople in 381. In that council the clauses defining the nature of the Holy Ghost were added to the Nicene Creed.
AtTACE115, ma-si-yo', Brazil, formerly MA CAYO, city and capital of the state of AlagOas, on the Atlantic Coast, 135 miles southwest of Pernambuco. The city has a cathedral, lyceum, government and other buildings. It has manu factures of machinery and cotton goods, and considerable ship-building is carried on here. Cotton, corn and hides are the chief items of export. Macei6 is the seat of a United States consular agent. Pop. 33,000.
McENTEE, Jervis, American painter: b. Rondout, N. Y., 14 July 1828; d. there, 27 Jan. 1891. He was educated at the Liberal Insti tute, Clinton, N. Y., and later studied under
F. E Church. He also visited Europe in 1869, studying in the principal galleries and sketching in Italy and Switzerland. He made his first contribution to the American Academy of De sign in 1853, was elected associate of that insti tution in 1860 and academician in 1861. After his return from Europe he took a studio in the famous studio building in West 10th street, New York, and devoted himself to landscape painting, although in later years he executed a number of figure canvasses. He belonged to the °Hudson River
of artists and his favorite subject was the autumn type of landscape, although his work is •by no means confined to one phase or season. A sale of his work in New York in 1888 disposed of 75 of his pictures which he considered the best of the preceding 10 years' work, and after his death 100 more were sold. Among his paint ings are