⸿ For thus hath theLord of hoſtes said ; Hew yee downe trees and ‖ caſt amount againſt Jeruſalem : this is the citie to be viſited, ſheis wholly oppreſſion in the midſt of her.
As with the names ofrivers andlakes, the names of mountains are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term.Mount is used in situations where the word precedes the unique term:Mount Everest,Mount Rushmore,Mount Tai. Except in the misunderstood translation of foreign names (as with China'sMount Hua), the terms used withmount will therefore usually be nouns:Mount Olympus butRugged Mountain andCrowfoot Mountain. It thus corresponds to the earlierthe mount ormountain of ~.
Mount is no longer used as a generic synonym formountain except in poetry and other literary contexts. An example is thefossilized form within the phraseSermon on the Mount.
(martial arts) A dominant groundgrappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatantstorso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
1697,Virgil, “(please specify the page)”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
Or shall wemount again the Rural Throne, And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own?
(transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
1697,Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
tomount the Trojan troop
(obsolete,transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to driveup; to raise; to elevate; to liftup.
(transitive,martial arts) To sit on a combatant'storso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in groundgrappling.
(intransitive,rare) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often withup.
Though Babylon ſhouldmount vp to heauen, and though ſhee ſhould fortifie the height of her ſtrength,yet from me ſhall ſpoilers come vnto her, ſaith theLord.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Permitted to See the Grand Academy ofLagado.[…]”, inTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World.[…][Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London:[…]Benj[amin] Motte,[…],→OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan),page78:
I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us inEurope. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincturemounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it.
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thusmounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, inZollenstein, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what theymount.
(transitive) To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page16:
When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried tomount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: "Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top?"
For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and notmounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
2023 August 7, Clive Cookson, “Missing ice and bleached coral: the sudden warming of the oceans”, inFinancial Times[1]:
Coralsmount a two-stage response to heat stress, first bleaching and then dying. Some of the southernmost reefs, exposed to the hottest water, are already dead but those in slightly cooler locations have a better chance of survival and regeneration.
2024 July 27, “Bolivian general arrested and accused of coup after dramatic showdown with president”, inedition.cnn.com[2]:
A Bolivian general has been arrested and accused ofmounting a coup against the government after attempting to storm the presidential palace on Wednesday.
