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Muse vs Philomuse - What's the difference?

muse | philomuse |

As nouns the difference between muse and philomuse

is that muse is while philomuse is (obsolete) a lover of the muses or poetry.

muse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) muse, from (etyl) .

Noun

(s)
  • A source of inspiration.
  • (archaic) A poet; a bard.
    • (Milton)
    Usage notes
    The plural musae'' can also be found, though it is much rarer than ''muses .
    Related terms
    * museum * music

    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1340. From (etyl) muser.

    Verb

    (mus)
  • To become lost in thought, to ponder.
  • To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
  • * (seeCites)
  • To think on; to meditate on.
  • * (rfdate) Thomson
    • Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • To wonder at.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Related terms
    * muser * musing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse , ne word to creature spake.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:
    • He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) musse. See muset.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
    • Find a hare without a muse . (old proverb)

    Anagrams

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    philomuse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A lover of the Muses or poetry.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 1654 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= Occasion's Offspring, or, Poems upon Severall Occasions , url= http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A61487.0001.001 , original= , chapter= Contents , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= John Place , location= London , editor= , volume= , page= , passage= To a Philomuse from whom I received a Paper upon the same Subject and by the same Post. }}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 1747 , year_published= , author= Josiah Relph , by= Paulo Canente , title= A Miscellany of Poems: Consisting of Original Poems, Translations Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect... , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=-j5MAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA103 , original= Balthasaris Castilionis Mantuani , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Thomlinsen , location= Glasgow , editor= , volume= , page= 103 , passage= Poor Philomuse ! you're disinherited. }}
  • (obsolete, rare) One who is a member of the Philomuse Society.
  • (rare) Affection or devotion to literature and the arts.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 1830 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= The History of Modern Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans B.C. 146 to the present time , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=gtYLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA573 , original= , chapter= Progress of education and commerce, and other causes which led to the Greek revolution. A.D. 1800—1820. , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley , location= London , editor= , volume= 2 , page= 573 , passage= This remarkable institution which had suffered materially with the death of Rhiga, was revived in Greece about the same period with the establishment of the Philomuse or literary society at Athens. }}