muse
see also: Muse
Pronunciation Noun
Muse
Pronunciation Noun
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see also: Muse
Pronunciation Noun
muse (plural muses)
- A source of inspiration.
- (archaic) A poet; a bard.
- (source of inspiration) Pierian spring
muse (muses, present participle musing; past and past participle mused)
- (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.
- (transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
- (transitive) To think on; to meditate on.
Thomson - Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
- (transitive) To wonder at.
- {{RQ:Shakespeare Verona|1|3|passage=Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; for what I will, I will, and there an end.
- See also Thesaurus:ponder
- German: sinnieren, nachdenklich sagen, nachsinnen
- German: nachsinnen, sinnieren
- Spanish: cavilar, meditar
muse (plural muses)
- An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:
- He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
muse (plural muses)
- A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
- Find a hare without a muse. (old proverb)
Muse
Pronunciation Noun
muse (plural muses)
- One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts.
- 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso:
- And hears the Muſes in a ring,
- Ay round about Joves Altar ſing.
- 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso:
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