muster

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Still this muster was a day on which every Douglas vassal must ride in mail with all his spears behind him--or bide at home and take the consequences All the night from distant parishes and outlying valleys horsemen had been riding, clothed in complete panoply of mail.

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  1. transitive verb To call (troops) together, as for inspection.
  2. transitive verb To cause to come together; gather: Bring all the volunteers you can muster.
  3. transitive verb To call forth; summon up: mustering up her strength for the ordeal. See Synonyms at call.
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  • Mornington and Poole are come—their muster is as strict as ours. —  Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan V1
  • The only courage I have been able to muster is to mo [...] —  Planet Python
  • For all their aesthetic consideration, that's all Sony can muster -- a dull hinge.
  • Not a single one has passed muster, and yet court time and taxpayer money is wasted over and over again on these same issues, with at least 10 states having gone through the same process with the same results. —  Techdirt
  • A Palestinian professor caught in the US legal system needs all the support we can muster, as respect for constitutional freedoms sinks ever lower. —  The Nation: Top Stories
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muster:   mustered ·  mustering
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English mustren, from Old French moustrer, from Latin mōnstrāre, to show, from mōnstrum, sign, portent, from monēre, to warn; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also mouster; from Middle English musteren, mustren, moustren = Middle Dutch monstern, Dutch monsteren = Middle Low German munsteren = German mustern = Swedish mönstra = Danish mönstre, from Old French mostrer, mustrer, monstrer, French montrer = Spanish Portuguese mostrar = Italian mostrare, from Latin monstrare, show, from monere, admonish: see monstration, monster. Cf. muster, n.
  2. Early modern English also mouster, mowster; from Middle English moustre (= Middle Dutch monster = Middle Low German Low German munster = German muster= Swedish Danish mönster), from Old French mostre, monstre, French montre = Portuguese Italian mostra, from Middle Latin monstra (after Roman), a review, a show, from Latin monstrare, show: see muster, v.
 

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