miswear
English
Verb
miswear (third-person singular simple present miswears, present participle miswearing, simple past miswore, past participle misworn)
- (obsolete, rare) To wear badly or wrongly.
- c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
- the people buy in effect chaffe for corn , for that which is miswrought will miswear
- c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for miswear in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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