Muse vs Expect - What's the difference?
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A source of inspiration.
(archaic) A poet; a bard.
To become lost in thought, to ponder.
To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
* (seeCites)
To think on; to meditate on.
* (rfdate) Thomson
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An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:
A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
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, title= To consider obligatory or required.
To consider reasonably due.
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
(obsolete) To wait for; to await.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616):
*1825 , (Walter Scott), , A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:
(obsolete) To wait; to stay.
Muse is a related term of expect.
As a noun muse
is .As a verb expect is
to look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).muse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) muse, from (etyl) .Noun
(s)- (Milton)
Usage notes
The plural musae'' can also be found, though it is much rarer than ''muses .Etymology 2
First attested in 1340. From (etyl) muser.Verb
(mus)- Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse , ne word to creature spake.
- He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) musse. See muset.Noun
(en noun)- Find a hare without a muse . (old proverb)
Anagrams
* ----expect
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- Let's in, and there expect their coming.
- The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
- (Sandys)