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MU'TUAL, a. [L. mutuus, from muto, to change.]

Reciprocal; interchanged , each acting in return or correspondence to the other; given and received. Mutual love is that which is entertained by two persons each for the other; mutual advantage is that which is conferred by one person or another,and received by him in return. So we say, mutual assistance, mutual aversion.

And, what should most excite a mutual flame,

Your rural cares and pleasures are the same.
1913 Definition
Mutual (mutual)
a.(?)
Mu"tu*al
[F. mutuel, L. mutuus, orig., exchanged, borrowed, lent; akin to mutare to change. See Mutable.]
  1. Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc.

    Conspiracy and mutual promise. Sir T. More.

    Happy in our mutual help,
    And mutual love.     Milton.

    A certain shyness on such subjects, which was mutual between the sisters. G. Eliot.

  2. Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual happiness; a mutual effort.
    Burke.

    A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Bentley.

    * This use of mutual as synonymous with common is inconsistent with the idea of interchange, or reciprocal relation, which properly belongs to it; but the word has been so used by many writers of high authority. The present tendency is toward a careful discrimination.

    Mutual, as Johnson will tell us, means something reciprocal, a giving and taking. How could people have mutual ancestors? P. Harrison.

    Mutual insurance, agreement among a number of persons to insure each other against loss, as by fire, death, or accident. -- Mutual insurance company, one which does a business of insurance on the mutual principle, the policy holders sharing losses and profits pro rata.

    Syn. -- Reciprocal; interchanged; common.

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