misget

English

Etymology

From Middle English misgeten, equivalent to mis- +‎ get.

Verb

misget (third-person singular simple present misgets, present participle misgetting, simple past misgot, past participle misgotten)

(obsolete, transitive) To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  the fruitlesse end
  Of thy vaine boast , and spoile of love misgot

Derived terms

References

misget in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

SIGMET, stigme

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