mute

hiljainen

mykkä

vaientaa, mykistää Not having the power of speech; dumb. (defdate)
Ovid: Metamorphoses, translated by (w) (defdate)

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend / Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, / Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes / Beholds his own hereditary skies. / From such rude principles our form began; / And earth was metamorphos'd into Man.

All the heavenly choir stood mute, / And silence was in heaven.

“(..) The heathens have broken into Thy Temple, and Thou art silent! Esau mocks Thy Children, and Thou remainest mute! Show thyself, arise, and let Thy Voice resound, Thou mutest among all the mute!”

As for the poor honest Maid, whom all the Story is built upon, and who ought to be one of the principal Actors in the Play, she is commonly a Mute in it:

The little box was eventually carried in one hand by the leading mute, while his colleague, with a finger placed on the lid, to prevent it from swaying, walked to one side and a little to the rear.

Then followed a long silence during which the mute turned to them and said, ‘Of course you'll be wanting an urn, sir?’

Please mute the music while I make a call.

All the pigeons, to the number of thirty-five, flew to and fro over the men's heads and muted upon them from mid-air;...

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Have I muted all my feathers?