Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of mule.

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Examples

  • Je sais raconter une histoire enfin, de façon relativement compétente, je pense, mais si mon cerveau fonctionne en surchauffe pour produire des idées d'article ou des pensées à développer dans mon blog, il reste désespérément muet pour ce qui est de la construction de scénario.

    Writing Stories — Climb to the Stars 2008

  • Bon pis Son Altesse Pinku c'est pas parce que c'est notre perso qui doit etre muet ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • C'est un peu comme le cinéma muet, avec des mimiques, des gestes et des situations explicites.

    Bollywood au Flon — Climb to the Stars 2004

  • -- Non, interrompit le plaignant, il fait le muet maintenant, parce qu'il ne peut pas se défendre; mais quand je l'ai rencontré ce matin, il criait si fort "Gare! gare!" qu'on aurait pu l'entendre à une lieue.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • Afterward the same came to be put in paper and in bookes, and vsed as ordinarie missiues, some of frendship, some of defiaunce, or as other messages of mirth: _Martiall_ was the cheife of this skil among the Latines, & at ahese days the best Epigrames we finde, & of the sharpest conceit are those that haue bene gathered among the reliques of the two muet _Satyres_ in Rome, _Pasquill_ and

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • French _eu_ and _e muet_ modifications of _u_ (uh) have been mentioned.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Condé, the "chef muet," was a prince of the blood, not so far removed from the throne as to regard it altogether impossible that he or his children might yet succeed to the crown.

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • _Eu_ is modulated at the lips, and _e muet_ at the middle mouth, but both have the general character of _u_ (uh).

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Such a study can be pursued either in assiduous conversation with one who has been deaf and dumb from birth, or by the experiment of a muet de convention, a man who foregoes the use of articulate sounds for the sake of experiment as to the process of the formation of language.

    Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

  • We may see the extent of the resemblance between Condillac's Statue and Diderot's muet de convention, but Diderot at least is free from the charge of borrowing.

    Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

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