mutine

From Middle French mutin (noun), mutiner (verb).

mutine (plural mutines)

1. (obsolete) Mutiny, rebellion. [16th-17th c.]
2. (obsolete) A mutineer. [16th-17th c.]

mutine (third-person singular simple present mutines, present participle mutining, simple past and past participle mutined)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To rise up in revolt; to mutiny, to rebel. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.2:

     They gan to gather in tumultuous rout, / And mutining to stirre up civill faction / For certaine losse of so great expectation […].

• minuet, minute, munite, mutein, untime

• Homophones: mutinent, mutines

mutine

1. first-person singular present indicative of mutiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of mutiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mutiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of mutiner
5. second-person singular imperative of mutiner