mutine

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noun

Mutiny, rebellion.

OriginMiddle French mutin →
First used 16th–17th c.Scrabble 8
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Meanings

nounmutine (countable and uncountable, plural mutines)

plural mutines

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableMutiny, rebellion.First known use 16th–17th c.
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableA mutineer.First known use 16th–17th c.
verbmutine (third-person singular simple present mutines, present participle mutining, simple past and past participle mutined)

present singular third person mutines · participle present mutining · participle past mutined · past mutined

  1. intransitiveobsoleteTo rise up in revolt; to mutiny, to rebel.First known use 16th–18th c.

    They gan to gather in tumultuous rout, / And mutining to stirre up civill faction / For certaine losse of so great expectation […].

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchmutin
  2. Englishmutine

From Middle French mutin (noun), mutiner (verb).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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