All 8 Uses of
muse
in
The Idiot
- The prince walked along, musing.†
Chpt 1.7 *musing = reflecting (thinking) -- perhaps aloud
- He had suddenly relapsed into musing, and had probably not heard the question at all.†
Chpt 2.3
- Hippolyte gazed eagerly at the latter, and mused for a few moments.†
Chpt 3.5mused = thought -- possibly aloud
- "Well perhaps you're right," said Hippolyte, musing.†
Chpt 3.5musing = reflecting (thinking) -- perhaps aloud
- "It was a dream, of course," he said, musingly.†
Chpt 3.8
- Christ had listened to it, but was now musing—one hand reposing on the child's bright head.†
Chpt 3.10musing = reflecting (thinking) -- perhaps aloud
- "Oh, it was about the general," began the prince, waking abruptly from the fit of musing which he too had indulged in "and-and about the theft you told me of."†
Chpt 4.3
- Strangely enough, the decision of the question as to whether this were a ghost or Rogojin did not, for some reason or other, interest me nearly so much as it ought to have done;—I think I began to muse about something altogether different.†
Chpt 3.6 *
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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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, muse is used as a synonym for "poet".