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源自拉丁语 mussitō (保持安静;低语,咕哝) +‎ -ate (动词后缀),源自 mussō (保持沉默和恭敬;轻声说,低语)(源自原始印欧语 *mur- (低语),本为拟态词)+ -itō (反复后缀)[1][2]

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mussitate (第三人称单数简单现在时 mussitates,现在分词 mussitating,一般过去时及过去分词 mussitated) (弃用不含书面诗歌)

  1. (及物) 含糊喃喃自语道(词语、话语)
    • 1676, Theophilus Gale, “Of the Magi, Gymnosophistæ, Druides and Other Barbaric Philosophers”, 出自 The Court of the Gentiles: Or, A Discourse Touching the Traduction of Philosophie from the Scriptures and Jewish Church: [], 2nd版, London: [] J. Macock for Thomas Gilbert, →OCLC, part II (Of Philosophie), book I (Of Oriental, and Occidental Barbaric Philosophie),75:
      As for the Origination of the name Magus, [] others [derive it] from מהגה, one that muſſitates; becauſe the Magi tranſacted al their Incantations by muſſitating or muttering out their vvords.
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    • 2007, Greg Delanty, “The Wordmen”, 出自 The Ship of Birth: Poems, Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN14:
      It's not impossible that from the very start / I've been at something akin to / what the Dogon buckoos do: / how they mussitate extended tales by heart / of their gene-myths of their ancestors into / their women's auricles.
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    • 2020年5月19日, Richard M. Beloin, “Oil—Hay—Land—Capers”, 出自 The Harrisons, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
      Jake threw his hat at Hannah and walked to his office with a grin from ear to ear as he mussitated, "and whose fault is that?"
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  2. (不及物) 说话含糊不清喃喃自语 (自17世纪初)
    • 1681, “an Healing Hand” [pseudonym; John Bairdy], Balm from Gilead: Or, The Differences about the Indulgence, Stated and Impleaded: [], London: [] Tho[mas] Cockerill [], →OCLC162:
      Let none dare to think as vve hear ſome one or tvvo begins to muſſitate, that the Magiſtrates miſcarriages about the matters of Religion, does forfault him of his right to govern, and ſo cadens titulo, is no more to be ovvned as King.
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    • 1843, William Elder, “In Relation to the Powers and Prerogatives of the Clergy to Rule and Teach, Claimed to be Immediately from on High Independent of the Laity”, 出自 The Genius of Ecclesiastical Freedom; Comprising the Declaration of Divine Order, Made by the First Convention of the New Church in Union County, Indiana; [], Cincinnati, Oh.: [s.n.], →OCLC220:
      Nay, farther, in Isaiah we are taught, concerning those who speak out of the ground, whose voice is as of one who hath a familiar spirit, and whose speech shall whisper, peep, chirp, mutter or mussitate low out of the dust, namely: that they shall be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, earthquake, great noise, storm and tempest, and with the flame of devouring fire. (xxix. 4, 6.)
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    • 1860, Alazon [pseudonym; William Richard Barnes], “XIX [Lord Brougham, Lord George Gordon, Lessons from the East End Riots, the Author’s Fears, Sponsors, and Lord Ebury’s Letter on Ash-Wednesday]”, 出自 Let Well Alone: Or Removal of Blemishes from Church and State, London: Longman & Co. [], →OCLC182:
      Enough remains, however, to make one go mussitating in solitary places, like a banished bull μελεος μελεῳ ποδι χηρενων
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    • 1869年4月1日, A. Hall, “Notes and Queries. [Habits of House Mice.]”, 出自 M[ordecai] C[ubitt] Cooke 编, Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 第 V 卷, 第 52 期, London: Robert Hardwicke, [], 出版于 1870, →OCLC93,第 1 列:
      I have now another visitant [a mouse], a much quieter animal: it rustles about a good deal on first entering, but after a while it subsides into a gentle and very peculiar murmuring sound: [] it is really mussitating, i.e., "to gently murmur," []
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    • 1993, Don Paterson, “The Ferryman’s Arms”, 出自 Nil Nil, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN第 1 页:
      The boat chugged up to the little stone jetty / without breaking the skin of the water, stretching, / as black as my stout, from somewhere unspeakable / to here, where the foaming lip mussitates endlessly, / trying, with a nutter's persistence, to read / and re-read the shoreline.
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    • 2014, Magdalena Zyzak, “In which Odolechka is Introduced to the Automobile, a Technology hitherto Largely in the Domain of Rumor”, 出自 The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel [], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN44–45 页s:
      "I, a military man, who might just someday enter politics. Do not cast pearls before gypsies!" he mussitated, walking on, and did not stop until he reached the churchyard, where he faced a peculiar sight.
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  1. 对照“mussitate, v.”,OED Online  ,Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,December 2020年
  2. mussitate, v.”,Dictionary.com UnabridgedDictionary.com, LLC,1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, ISBN 978-0-679-42441-3

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mussitāte

  1. mussitātus呼格阳性单数