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mutescere

mutescere [LL], mutere [ML] , to become or be silent, be mute. si constet proprie domine mechata libido, / mutescas; domino super hoc non esto locutor D. Bec. 1919; hec probo, mutescunt, residentque metuque tepescunt Garl. Tri. Eccl. 89; vim mutescendo sustines impugnantis J. Howd. Cant. 81; cum cumulus temporalium prelatos infatuat et facit eos in debito officii sui ~escere Wycl. Blasph. 26; quia tolleretur radix peccati et laxarentur ora cleri modo ~entis Id. Ver. III 57; licet presul ~eat Ib. 66; 1426 amodo ergo ~eat canis ille raucus Reg. Cant. III 138.

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