What does mugient mean?
Mugient means (rare) Lowing; bellowing..
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/ˈmjuːd͡ʒi.ənt/ · adjective
(rare) Lowing; bellowing..
That a bittern maketh that mugient noise, or as we term it, bumping, by putting its bill into a reed, as most believe […]
Dire groans arose, / And late laments came plaining upward high / From the sepulchral cavern, that reclos'd / With roar of loudest mugient thunders dire.
This Hodge has made a great fortune, so say persons interested in such extrinsic matters, out of his annual laudation of God's Kansas and Ohio noblemen who drink out of the fingerbowl, pick their teeth with the oyster fork and clean their nails with the fruit knife; and he has thus provided unfailing copy for the mugient professors in the matter of bienséance and punctilio.
Sounds, latrant, mugient and reboatory, echoed above the city’s noise as, yelping and barking, the heterogeneous pack raced down the street, while boys and girls, armed with rulers and schoolbags, manoeuvred it to a vacant allotment.
Now in the mugient flutes new anguish comes, / With pain progresses to the aches of / Suddenly piercing, and my rendezvous drums.
Use mugient when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mugient means (rare) Lowing; bellowing..
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That a bittern maketh that mugient noise, or as we term it, bumping, by putting its bill into a reed, as most believe […]
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