mussitation

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  1. A mumbling or muttering.
  2. In pathology, movement of the lips and tongue as in speaking, but without articulation: a sign of bad omen in disease.

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  1. from French mussitation = Italian Musitazione, mussitazione, from Late Latin mussitatio(n-), a murmuring, from Latin mussitare, past participle mussitatus, murmur: see mussitate.
 

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