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mugient en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈmjuːd͡ʒənt/
• /ˈmjuːd͡ʒi.ənt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūgiēns, present participle of mūgiō (“to bellow”).

Meanings

1. (rare) Lowing; bellowing.
   • Dire groans arose, / And late laments came plaining upward high / From the sepulchral cavern, that reclos'd / With roar of loudest mugient thunders dire. 1833, William Ellis Wall, Christ Crucified: An Epic Poem, in Twelve Books, Oxford, page 220:
   • Sounds, latrant, mugient and reboatory, echoed above the city’s noise as, yelping and barking, the heterogeneous pack raced down the street, while boys and girls, armed with rulers and schoolbags, manoeuvred it to a vacant allotment. 1940 June 23, “Dogs Would Not Lie Doggo Here”, in The Sunday Sun and Guardian, number 1943, Sydney, page 7:
   • This Hodge has made a great fortune, so say persons interested in such extrinsic matters, out of his annual laudation of God's Kansas and Ohio noblemen who drink out of the fingerbowl, pick their teeth with the oyster fork and clean their nails with the fruit knife; and he has thus provided unfailing copy for the mugient professors in the matter of bienséance and punctilio. 1918, George Jean Nathan, The Popular Theatre, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 64:
   • Now in the mugient flutes new anguish comes, / With pain progresses to the aches of / Suddenly piercing, and my rendezvous drums. 1960 July 16, D. G., “Day After Good-By”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume 119, number 170, Chicago, Ill., part 1, page 14:
   • That a bittern maketh that mugient noise, or as we term it, bumping, by putting its bill into a reed, as most believe […] 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

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