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muster
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English musteren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from Latin m?nstr?re (“to show”), from monere (“to admonish”). Cognate with French montrer (“to show”), Italian mostrare (“to show”), Spanish mostrar (“to show”). See also monster.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?s.t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?s.t?/
- Rhymes: -?st?(?)
Noun
muster (plural musters)
- Gathering.
- An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things. [from 14th c.]
- 1743, Richard Steele & Joseph Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.:
- She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers.
- 1920, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, Issue 13,
- The figures from 1788 to 1825 inclusive, as already mentioned, are based on the musters taken in those years; those for subsequent years are based upon estimates made on the basis of Census results and the annual […] .
- 1743, Richard Steele & Joseph Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.:
- (chiefly military) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service. [from 15th c.]
- 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1:
- Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily.
- 1663, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 4 Jul 1663:
- And after long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke &c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen […]
- 2010, Ohtar, "Enthroned", Slechtvalk, A Forlorn Throne.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1:
- The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc. [from 19th c.]
- 2006, John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos!, Boolarong Press:
- McGuire took the two of them out to Kidman's Bore on the Sylvester River where about two dozen stockmen from different stations had gathered to tend the muster along the edge of the Simpson Desert.
- 2006, John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos!, Boolarong Press:
- An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things. [from 14th c.]
- Showing.
- (obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern. [15th-19th c.]
- (obsolete) An act of showing something; a display. [15th-17th c.]
- 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book III:
- Thus all things being condignely ordered, will an ill favoured impatiencie he waited, until the next morning he might make a muster of him selfe in the Iland [...].
- 1647, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, Act 2:
- And when you find your women's favour fail, / 'Tis ten to one you'll know yourself, and seek me, / Upon a better muster of your manners.
- 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book III:
- A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists). [from 15th c.]
Derived terms
- pass muster
- bangtail muster
Translations
Verb
muster (third-person singular simple present musters, present participle mustering, simple past and past participle mustered)
- (transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit. [15th-17th c.]
- (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc. [from 15th c.]
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- (transitive, US) To enroll (into service). [from 19th c.]
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To gather or round up livestock.
Synonyms
- (gather, unite, especially troops): rally
Derived terms
- muster in
- muster out
- muster up
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
muster (plural musters)
- Synonym of mustee
- 1825, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 4:
- The next, the Quadroon, from the white and mulatto woman. The third descent, from a white and quadroon, is called a muster; from the fourth, between a white and a muster, springs the musteephinas and the fifth descent, viz. from a white and musteephina, is white by law, and of free birth; indeed the two latter classes are as white as a European.
- 1925, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Elmer Anderson Carter, Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, page 291:
- Mixed bloods, they are suspended between two races, — mulattoes, quadroons, musters, mustafinas, cabres, griffies, zambis, quatravis, tresalvis, coyotes, saltatras, albarassados, cambusos, — neither white nor black, but Negroes.
- 1825, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 4:
References
- muster in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- muster in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Sumter, estrum, mustre, muters, stumer, turmes
German
Pronunciation
Verb
muster
- singular imperative of mustern
Silesian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Muster.
Noun
muster m
- design, pattern
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accumulate
English
Etymology
- First attested in the 1520's.
- Borrowed from Latin accumul?tus, perfect passive participle of accumul? (“amass, pile up”), formed from ad (“to, towards, at”) + cumul? (“heap”), from cumulus (“a heap”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??kju?mj??le?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?.?kjum.j?.?le?t/
- Hyphenation: ac?cu?mu?late
Verb
accumulate (third-person singular simple present accumulates, present participle accumulating, simple past and past participle accumulated)
- (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively)
- Synonyms: amass, heap, hoard, store; see also Thesaurus:pile up
- (intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
- Synonyms: aggregate, amound, collect, gather; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
- (education, dated) To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
Translations
Adjective
accumulate (not comparable)
- (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
Related terms
- accumulation
- accumulator
- cumulus
Further reading
- accumulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- accumulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Italian
Verb
accumulate
- second-person plural present indicative of accumulare
- second-person plural imperative of accumulare
- feminine plural of accumulato
Latin
Etymology
From accumul? (“amass, pile up”)
Adverb
accumul?t? (comparative accumul?tius, superlative accumul?tissim?)
- abundantly, copiously
Synonyms
- abundanter
Related terms
- accumulator
- accumul?
References
- accumulate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- accumulate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accumulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- accumulate in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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