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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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21,540 words match “MI”

MISEDITION n.
An incorrect or spurious edition. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
MISEDUCATE v.
To educate in a wrong manner.
MISEMPLOY v.
To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc. Their frugal father's gains they misemploy. Dryden.
MISEMPLOYMENT n.
Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
MISENTER v.
To enter or insert wrongly, as a charge in an account.
MISENTREAT v.
To treat wrongfully. [Obs.] Grafton.
MISENTRY n.
An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.
MISER n. 4 definitions
A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser. The woeful words of a miser now despairing. Sir P. Sidney.
MISERABLE a. 5 definitions
Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden.
MISERABLENESS n.
The state or quality of being miserable.
MISERABLY adv.
In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. They were miserably entertained. Sir P. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South.
MISERATION n.
Commiseration. [Obs.]
MISERERE n. 4 definitions
r penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere.
MISERICORDE n. 2 definitions
Same as Misericordia, 2.
MISERICORDIA n. 3 definitions
A thin-bladed dagger; so called, in the Middle Ages, because used to give the death wound or "mercy" stroke to a fallen adversary.
MISERLY a.
Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.
MISERY n. 3 definitions
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Chaucer. Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom. iii. 16.
MISESTEEM n.
Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
MISESTIMATE v.
To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.
MISEXPLANATION n.
An erroneous explanation.
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