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.
1956, Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (?, translators), Lion Feuchtwanger (German author), Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo (translation of w:Die Jüdin von Toledo|Die Jüdin von Toledo),http://books.google.com/books?id=sgBKAAAAMAAJ Messner, page 178:
“(..) 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!”
Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
puhekieltä An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. (defdate)
1668OF Dramatick Poesie, AN ESSAY. By JOHN DRYDEN Esq; ((w))
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:
A person who does not have the power of speech. (defdate)
A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant. (defdate)
(RQ:Peake Gormenghas)
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.