mutine

See also: mutiné

English

Etymology

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

Noun

mutine (countable and uncountable, plural mutines)

1. (obsolete) Mutiny, rebellion. [16th–17th c.]
2. (obsolete) A mutineer. [16th–17th c.]

Verb

mutine (third-person singular simple present mutines, present participle mutining, simple past and past participle mutined)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To rise up in revolt; to mutiny, to rebel. [16th–18th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

Descendants

• → Manx: mooidjeen

Anagrams

• minuet, minute, munite, mutein, untime

French

Pronunciation

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• Homophones: mutinent, mutines

Verb

mutine

1. inflection of mutiner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative