Mustered vs Lustered - What's the difference?
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(muster)
Gathering.
# An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
#* 1743 , Joseph Steele & Richard Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. :
#* Macaulay
#* 1920 , Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia , Issue 13,
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#* 1598 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1 :
#* 1663 , Samuel Pepys, Diary , 4 Jul 1663:
# The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
#* Wyclif
#* Hooker
# (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
#* 2006 , John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos! , Boolarong Press:
Showing.
# (obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
# (obsolete) An act of showing something; a display.
#* 1590 , Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia , Book III:
#* 1647 , Beaumont and Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth , Act 2:
# A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists).
(obsolete) To show, exhibit.
To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
(US) To enroll (into service).
(luster)
Shine, polish or sparkle.
* Addison
By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
* Sir H. Wotton
Refinement, polish or quality.
A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.
A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.
A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.
To gleam, have luster.
To give luster, distinguish.
To give a coating or other treatment to impart physical luster.
A lustrum, quinquennium, a period of five years, originally the interval between Roman censuses.
* , II.4.2.ii:
One who lusts.
* Bible, Paul
As verbs the difference between mustered and lustered
is that mustered is (muster) while lustered is (luster).mustered
English
Verb
(head)muster
English
Noun
(en noun)- She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers.
- Of the temporal grandees of the realm, and of their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid.
- The figures from 1788 to 1825 inclusive, as already mentioned, are based on the musters taken in those years; those for subsequent years are based upon estimates made on the basis of Census results and the annual.
- Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily.
- And after long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke &c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen
- The muster was thirty thousands of men.
- Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.
- McGuire took the two of them out to Kidman's Bore on the Sylvester River where about two dozen stockmen from different stations had gathered to tend the muster along the edge of the Simpson Desert.
- Thus all things being condignely ordered, will an ill favoured impatiencie he waited, until the next morning he might make a muster of him selfe in the Iland [...].
- And when you find your women's favour fail, / 'Tis ten to one you'll know yourself, and seek me, / Upon a better muster of your manners.
Derived terms
* pass muster * bangtail musterVerb
(en verb)- With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* muster in * muster out * muster upReferences
* *Anagrams
* ----lustered
English
Verb
(head)luster
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (Commonwealth)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- ''He polished the brass doorknob to a high luster .
- The scorching sun was mounted high, / In all its lustre , to the noonday sky.
- ''After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster .
- His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great lustre .
- ''He spoke with all the lustre a seasoned enthusiast should have.
- (Alexander Pope)
Antonyms
* (brilliance) (l)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lustrum, from lustrare, cognate with the aboveNoun
(en noun)- Mesue and some other Arabians began to reject and reprehend it; upon whose authority, for many following lusters , it was much debased and quite out of request […].
Etymology 3
.Noun
(en noun)- Neither fornicators, nor those who serve idols, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor the lusters after mankind shall obtain the kingdom of God.
