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Definition of Mummying
1. mummy [v] - See also: mummy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mummying
Literary usage of Mummying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"[< mis- + sway, v.] To misgovern. Davies. Through mummying it seemed to decline.
Davies, Microcosmos, p. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"Some time ago a mummied head was found on the banks of the river Richibucto In
New Brunswick.8 These facts seem to suggest that a rudimentary mummying ..."
3. History of the Church of England from the Abolition of the Roman by Richard Watson Dixon (1884)
"... matins, or evensong was but roaring, howling, whistling, mummying, conjuring,
and juggling ; and the playing at the organs a foolish vanity. ..."
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