muster

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1. muster - Noun

2. muster - Adjective

3. muster - Verb

Meaning

Something shown for imitation; a pattern.

A show; a display.

An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.

The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.

Any assemblage or display; a gathering.

To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like.

Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together.

To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like; to come together as parts of a force or body; as, his supporters mustered in force.

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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. John Updike

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade. Ben Hecht

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir. Carrie Fisher

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm. Bertrand Russell

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster. Paracelsus

We think about what to do, and muster considerations and arguments in favor of one course or another. How are we to think about that? Simon Blackburn

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