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3,135 words match “MIS”

MISDOUBT v. 3 definitions
To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. [Obs.] I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.
MISDOUBTFUL n.
Misgiving; hesitating. [Obs.] "Her misdoubtful mind." Spenser.
MISDREAD n.
Dread of evil. [Obs.]
MISE n. 3 definitions
The issue in a writ of right.
MISEASE n.
Want of ease; discomfort; misery. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MISEASED a.
Having discomfort or misery; troubled. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MISEASY a.
Not easy; painful. [Obs.]
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.
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