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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3,135 words match “MIS”

MISCONSTRUER n.
One who misconstrues.
MISCONTENT a.
Discontent. [Obs.]
MISCONTINUANCE n.
Discontinuance; also, continuance by undue process.
MISCOPY v. 2 definitions
To copy amiss.
MISCORRECT v.
To fail or err in attempting to correct. "Scaliger miscorrects his author." Dryden.
MISCOUNSEL v.
To counsel or advise wrongly.
MISCOUNT v. 2 definitions
To count erroneously.
MISCOVET v.
To covet wrongfully. [Obs.]
MISCREANCE; MISCREANCY n.
The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
MISCREANT n. 4 definitions
One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever. [Obs.] Spenser. De Quincey. Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Rivers.
MISCREATE a. 2 definitions
Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles. [Obs. or Poet.] Shak.
MISCREATED a.
Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed. Spenser. Milton.
MISCREATIVE a.
Creating amiss. [R.]
MISCREDENT n.
A miscreant, or believer in a false religious doctrine. [Obs.] Holinshed.
MISCREDULITY n.
Wrong credulity or belief; misbelief. Bp. Hall.
MISCUE n.
A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.
MISDATE v.
To date erroneously. Young.
MISDEAL n. 2 definitions
The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.
MISDEED n.
An evil deed; a wicked action. Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. Milton.
MISDEEM v.
To misjudge. [Obs.] Milton.
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