mutism2 (mutizm)

[= F. mutis me; as mute1 + -ism.] Same as mutage. mutive (mu'tiv), a. [ Where while on traytor sea, and mid the mutive windes. A Herrings Tayle (1598). ( Nares.) mutter (mut'er), v. [ muteren , moteren = G. muttern (cf. LG. mustern , mu eln ), mut- ter, whisper; cf. It. dial. muttire , call, L. mut- tire, mutire, mutter; ult. imitative, like mum1 , murmur, etc.] I. in trans. 1. To utter words in a low tone and with compre ed lips, as in complaint or sullenne ; murmur; grumble. No man dare accuse them, no, not so much as mutter against them. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 213. She, ending, waved her hands: thereat the crowd, Muttering, di olved. Tennyson, Prince , iv. 2. To emit a low rumbling sound. The deep roar Of distant thunder mutters awfully. Shelley, Queen Mab, i. 4. II. trans. To utter with imperfect articulation, or in a low murmuring tone. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perversene . Isa. lix. 3. There are a kind of men so loose of soul That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. Shak., Othello, iii. 3. 417. mutter (mut'er) n. [ mutter at Bishop Laud's carriage there [in Scotland) that it was too haughty and pontifical. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 23. Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of di evering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fix'd. Milton , Comus, 1. 817. mutteration (mut-e-ra's hon), n. [ mutter , v ., +-ation.] The act of muttering or complaining. [Rare.] So the night pa ed off with prayings, hopings, and a little mutteration . Richardson, Sir Charles Grand is on, IV. 282. ( Davies .) mutterer (mut'er-ér), n . One who mutters; a grumbler. The words of a mutterer , saith the Wise man, are as wounds, going into the innermost parts. Barrow , The Decalogue, Ninth Commandment.