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Miserly (mīzẽrl�), a. [From .] Like a miser; very covetous; avaricious; stingy; sordid; niggardly.
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Syn. -- Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; avaricious; penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See .
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Misery (?), n.; pl. Miseries (#). [OE. miserie, L. miseria, fr. miser wretched: cf. F. misère, OF. also, miserie.]
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1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Chaucer.
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Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom. iii. 16.
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2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
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When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes. Shak.
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3. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice. [Obs.]
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Syn. -- Wretchedness; torture; agony; torment; anguish; distress; calamity; misfortune.
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Misesteem (?), n. [Cf. F. mésestime.] Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
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Misestimate (?), v. t. To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.
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Misexplanation (?), n. An erroneous explanation.
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Misexplication (?), n. Wrong explication.
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Misexposition (?), n. Wrong exposition.
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Misexpound (?), v. t. To expound erroneously.
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Misexpression (?), n. Wrong expression.
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Misfaith (?), n. Want of faith; distrust. “[Anger] born of your misfaith.” Tennyson.
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Misfall (?), v. t. [imp. Misfell; p. p. Misfallen (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Misfalling.] To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Misfare (?), v. i. [AS. misfaran.] To fare ill. [Obs.] -- n. Misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Misfashion (?), v. t. To form wrongly.
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Misfeasance (?), n. [OF. pref. mes- wrong (L. minus less) + faisance doing, fr. faire to do, L. facere. Cf. .] (Law) A trespass; a wrong arising from an overt act; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do. Bouvier. Wharton.
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Misfeature (?), n. Ill feature. [R.] Keats.
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Misfeeling (?), a. Insensate. [Obs.] Wyclif.
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Misfeign (?), v. i. To feign with an evil design. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Misfit (?), n. 1. The act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.
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2. Something that fits badly, as a garment.
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I saw an uneasy change in Mr. Micawber, which sat tightly on him, as if his new duties were a misfit. Dickens.
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3. A person who does not fit in comfortably with the surrounding situation or society; one who cannot conform or adjust to the circumstances in which he lives.
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Misform (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Misformed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Misforming.] To make in an ill form. Spenser.
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Misformation (?), n. Malformation.
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Misfortunate (?; 135), a. Producing misfortune. [Obs.]
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Misfortune (?), n. Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
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Consider why the change was wrought,
You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. Addison.
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Syn. -- Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster. See .
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Misfortune, v. i. To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail. [Obs.] Stow.
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Misfortuned (?), a. Unfortunate. [Obs.]
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Misframe (?), v. t. To frame wrongly.
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Misget (?), v. t. To get wrongfully. [Obs.]
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Misgie (?), v. t. See . [Obs.]
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Misgive (?), v. t. [imp. Misgave (?); p. p. Misgiven (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Misgiving.]
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1. To give or grant amiss. [Obs.] Laud.
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2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun.
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So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts
What may befall him, to his harm and ours. Shak.
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Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved. Milton.
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3. To suspect; to dread. [Obs.] Shak.
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Misgive, v. i. To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute. “My mind misgives.” Shak.
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misgiving, n. Evil premonition; doubt; distrust; a feeling of apprehension; -- used commonly in the plural. “Suspicious and misgivings.” South.
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Misgo (mĭsgō), v. i. To go astray. Spenser.
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Misgotten (mĭsgŏtt'n), a. Unjustly gotten. Spenser.
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Misgovern (?), v. t. To govern badly; as, to misgovern a country. Knolles.
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Misgovernance (?), n. Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.
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Misgoverned (?), a. Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. “Rude, misgoverned hands.” Shak.
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Misgovernment (?), n. Bad government; want of government. Shak.
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Misgracious (?), a. Not gracious. [Obs.]
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Misgraff (?), v. t. To misgraft. [Obs.] Shak.
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Misgraft (?), v. t. To graft wrongly.
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Misground (?), v. t. To found erroneously. “Misgrounded conceit.” Bp. Hall.
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Misgrowth (?), n. Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
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Misguess (?), v. t. & i. To guess wrongly.
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Misguidance (?), n. Wrong guidance.
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Misguide (?), v. t. To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
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Misguide, n. Misguidance; error. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Misguiding, a. Misleading. -- Misguidingly, adv.
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Misgye (?), v. t. To misguide. [Obs.]
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Mishandle (?), v. t. To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
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Mishap (?), n. Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. Chaucer.
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Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. Shak.
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Mishap (?), v. i. To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] “If that me mishap.” Chaucer.
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Mishappen (?), v. i. To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
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Mishappy (?), a. Unhappy. [Obs.]
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Mishcup (?), n. [See .] (Zoöl.) The scup. [Local, U. S.]
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Mishear (?), v. t. & i. To hear incorrectly.
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Mishmash (?), n. [Cf. G. mish-mash, fr. mischen to mix.] A hodgepodge or hotchpotch; a confused jumble. [Also spelled mishmosh.] Sir T. Herbert.
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Mishna (?), n. [NHeb. mishnāh, i. e., repetition, doubling, explanation (of the divine law), fr. Heb. shānāh to change, to repeat.] A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud. [Written also Mischna.]
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Mishnic (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Mishna.
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Misimagination (?), n. Wrong imagination; delusion. Bp. Hall.
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Misimprove (?), v. t. To use for a bad purpose; to abuse; to misuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages, etc. South.
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Misimprovement (?), n. Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.
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Misincline (?), v. t. To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.
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Misinfer (?), v. t. To infer incorrectly.
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Misinform (?), v. t. To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.
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Misinform, v. i. To give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate. [R.] Bp. Montagu.
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Misinformant (?), n. A misinformer.
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Misinformation (?), n. Untrue or incorrect information. Bacon.
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Misinformer (?), n. One who gives untrue or incorrect information.
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Misinstruct (?), v. t. To instruct amiss.
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Misinstruction (?), n. Wrong or improper instruction.
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Misintelligence (?), n. 1. Wrong information; misinformation.
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2. Disagreement; misunderstanding. [Obs.]
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Misintend (?), v. t. To aim amiss. [Obs.]
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Misinterpret (?), v. t. To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.
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Misinterpretable (?), a. Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
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Misinterpretation (?), n. The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
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Misinterpreter (?), n. One who interprets erroneously.
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Misjoin (?), v. t. To join unfitly or improperly.
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Misjoinder (?), n. (Law) An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil. Wharton.
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Misjudge (?), v. t. & i. To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
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Misjudgment (?), n. [Written also misjudgement.] A wrong or unjust judgment.
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Miskeep (?), v. t. To keep wrongly. Chaucer.
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Misken (?), v. t. Not to know. [Obs.]
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Miskin (?), n. [Prob. for music + -kin.] (Mus.) A little bagpipe. [Obs.] Drayton.
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Miskindle (?), v. t. To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
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Misknow (?), v. t. To have a mistaken notion of or about. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
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Mislactation (?), n. (Med.) Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.
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Mislay (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mislaid (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mislaying.]
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1. To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source.
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The fault is generally mislaid upon nature. Locke.
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2. To lay in a place not recollected; to misplace; to lose.
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The . . . charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid: and the prayer of their petition was to obtain one of like import in its stead. Hallam.
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Mislayer (?), n. One who mislays.
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Misle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Misled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Misling (?).] [Prop. mistle, fr. mist. Cf. , .] To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle; to drizzle. [archaic]
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Misle, n. A fine rain; a thick mist; a mizzle; a drizzle.
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Mislead (mĭslēd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Misled (mĭslĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Misleading.] [AS. mislǣdan. See , and to conduct.] To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
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Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. Bacon.
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To give due light
To the mislead and lonely traveler. Milton.
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Syn. -- To delude; deceive. See .
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Misleader (?), n. One who leads into error.
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Misleading, a. Leading astray; delusive.
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Mislearn (?), v. t. To learn wrongly.
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Misled (?), imp. & p. p. of .
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Mislen (?), n. See .
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Misletoe (?), n. See .
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Mislight (?), v. t. To deceive or lead astray with a false light. Herrick.
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Mislike (mĭslīk), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Misliked (mĭslīkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Misliking.] [AS. mislīcian to displease. See , v.] To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to; as, to mislike a man.
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Who may like or mislike what he says. I. Taylor.
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Mislike, n. Dislike; disapprobation; aversion.
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Misliker (?), n. One who dislikes.
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Misliking, n. Dislike; aversion.
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Mislin (?), n. & a. See .
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Mislive (?), v. i. To live amiss.
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Mislodge (?), v. t. To lodge amiss. [Obs.]
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Misluck (?), n. Ill luck; misfortune.
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Misly (?), a. Raining in very small drops; drizzling. [archaic]
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Mismake (mĭsmāk), v. t. To make or form amiss; to spoil in making. “Limping possibilities of mismade human nature.” Mrs. Browning.
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Mismanage (?), v. t. & i. To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
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Mismanagement (?), n. Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
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Mismanager (?), n. One who manages ill.
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Mismark (?), v. t. To mark wrongly.
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Mismatch (?), v. t. To match unsuitably.
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mismatched adj. 1. Matched unsuitably; grouped into pairs or sets with incompatible characteristics. [Narrower terms: ill-sorted, incompatible, mismated, unsuited; odd, unmatched, unmated, unpaired ] Also See: . Antonym: matched.
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2. Of very unequal ability; -- of contestants in a contest. The less able contestant is said to be overmatched or outclassed.
Syn. -- uneven, not fairly matched.
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Mismate (?), v. t. To mate wrongly or unsuitably; to mismatch; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.
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Mismeasure (?; 135), v. t. To measure or estimate incorrectly.
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Mismeasurement, n. Wrong measurement.
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Mismeter (?), v. t. To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. [R.] Chaucer.
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Misname (?), v. t. To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.
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Misnomer (?), n. [OF. pref. mes- amiss, wrong (L. minus less) + F. nommer to name, L. nominare, fr. nomen name. See .] The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.
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Many of the changes, by a great misnomer, called parliamentary “reforms”. Burke.
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The word “synonym” is fact a misnomer. Whately.
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Misnomer, v. t. To misname. [R.]
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Misnumber (?), v. t. To number wrongly.
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Misnurture (?; 135), v. t. To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children. Bp. Hall.
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Misobedience (?), n. Mistaken obedience; disobedience. [Obs.] Milton.
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Misobserve (?), v. t. To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
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Misobserver (?), n. One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.
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Misogamist (?), n. [Gr. misei^n to hate + � marriage.] A hater of marriage.
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Misogamy (?), n. [Cf. F. misogamie.] Hatred of marriage.
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misogynic adj. misogynous.
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misogynism n. misogyny.
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Misogynist (mĭsŏjĭnĭst), n. [Gr. misogynhs, misogynaios; misei^n to hate + gynh woman: cf. F. misogyne.] A woman hater. Contrast misandrist. Fuller.
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Misogynous (mĭsŏjĭnŭs), a. Hating women; having deep-seated distrust of women; -- used of men.
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Misogyny (mĭsŏjĭn�; 277), n. [Gr. misogynia: cf. F. misogynie.] Hatred of women. Contrast misandry. Johnson.
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Misology (mĭsŏl�j�), n. [Gr. misologia; misei^n to hate + logos discourse.] Hatred of argument or discussion; hatred of enlightenment. G. H. Lewes.
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Misopinion, n. Wrong opinion. [Obs.]
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Misorder (?), v. t. To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. [Obs.] Shak.
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Misorder, n. Irregularity; disorder. [Obs.] Camden.
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Misorderly, a. Irregular; disorderly. [Obs.]
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Misordination (?), n. Wrong ordination.
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Misotheism (?), n. [Gr. misei^n to hate + qeos god.] Hatred of God. De Quincey.
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Mispaint (?), v. t. To paint ill, or wrongly.
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Mispassion (?), n. Wrong passion or feeling. [Obs.]
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Mispay (?), v. t. [Cf. .] To dissatisfy. [Obs.]
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Mispell (?), v. t., Mispend (�), v. t., etc. See , , etc.
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Mispense (?), n. See . Bp. Hall.
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Misperception (?), n. Erroneous perception.
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Mispersuade (?), v. t. To persuade amiss.
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Mispersuasion (?), n. A false persuasion; wrong notion or opinion. Dr. H. More.
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Mispickel (?), n. [G.] (Min.) Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
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Misplace (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Misplaced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Misplacing (?).] 1. To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
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2. To place in a location that one does not recall; to mislay; to lose.
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Misplacement (?), n. The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.
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Misplead (?), v. i. To err in pleading.
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Mispleading, n. (Law) An error in pleading.
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Mispoint (?), v. t. To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.
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Mispolicy (?), n. Wrong policy; impolicy.
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Mispractice (?), n. Wrong practice.
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Mispraise (?), v. t. To praise amiss.
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Misprint (mĭsprĭnt), v. t. To print wrongly; to make a mistake in printing.
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misprint (mĭsprĭnt), n. A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints. Misprints are sometimes noted and corrected in a list of corrigenda distributed with a book.
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Misprise (?), v. t. See . [Obs.] Shak.
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Misprise, v. t. [OF. mesprise mistake, F. méprise, fr. mespris, masc., mesprise, fem., p. p. of mesprendre to mistake; F. méprendre; pref. mes- amiss + prendre to take, L. prehendere.] To mistake. [Obs.] Shak.
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Misprision (?), n. [LL. misprisio, or OF. mesprison, prop., a mistaking, but confused with OF. mespris contempt, F. mépris. See 2d , , .]
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1. The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake. [Archaic] Fuller.
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The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion. Hare.
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2. Neglect; undervaluing; contempt. [Obs.] Shak.
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3. (Law) A neglect, negligence, or contempt.
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☞ In its larger and older sense it was used to signify “every considerable misdemeanor which has not a certain name given to it in the law.” Russell.

In a more modern sense it is applied exclusively to two offenses: --
1. Coloq. Misprision of treason , which is omission to notify the authorities of an act of treason by a person cognizant thereof. Stephen.
2. Coloq. Misprision of felony , which is a concealment of a felony by a person cognizant thereof. Stephen.
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