مُسْتَمِيتٌ

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مُسْتَمِيتٌ A courageous man, who seeks, or courts death: a man who seeks to be slain; who cares not, in war, for death: abandon- ing, or devoting, himself to death, (مسْتَرْسِلٌ لِلْمَوْتِ,) as also مُسْتَقْتِلٌ.
2 Abandoning, or devoting himself to a thing, or affair; syn. مُسْتَرْسِلٌ لِأَمْرٍ.
3 هَوَ مُسْتَمِيتٌ إِلَى كَذَا, as also مُسْتَهْلِكٌ, He [is devoted to such a thing, so that he] imagines that he shall die if he do not attain it.
4 Ru-beh says, وَزَبَدُ البَحْرِ لَهُ كَتِيتُ وَاللَّيْلُ فَوْقَ المَاءِ مُسْتَمِيتُ [And to the froth of the sea there was a sound like that of boiling, and night impended over the water]. [It is implied in the S that مستميت here signifies مُسْتَرْسِل.]
5 One who feigns himself to be insane, or possessed by a devil; not being really so.
6 One who feigns lowliness, or submissiveness, in voice, &c., to this man until he feeds him, and to this until he feeds him, and, when he is satiated, is ungrateful to his benefactors.
7 One who makes a show of being good and quiet or tranquil, and is not so in reality.

def.2 مُسْتَمِيتٌ The thin pellicle that adheres to the white of an egg. [See 10: and see also مُسْتَمِيثٌ, in art. ميث.]

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