Both Uses of
muse
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- "No," my father mused, "you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons."
p. 99.8mused = reflected aloud
- This would not do, I mused, as the class proceeded with its sums.
p. 282.0 *mused = thought
Definitions:
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(1)
(muse as in: her musings) reflect (think) deeply on a subject -- perhaps aloud
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(2)
(muse as in: She was his muse) the source of an artist's inspiration - especially a person or mythological goddessThe 9 muses were the daughters of the Greek gods Zeus & Mnemosyne. Each of the muses was thought to inspire and preside over one of the arts.
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, muse is used as a synonym for "poet".