Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: MIS-BE-LIEV-ER – MIS-CEL-LA-NA'RI-AN
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MIS-BE-LIEV-ER, n.
One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion. Dryden.
MIS-BE-LIEV-ING, a.
Believing erroneously; irreligious. Shak.
MIS-BE-SEEM, v.t.
To suit ill.
MIS-BE-SEEM'ING, a.
Ill-suiting.
MIS-BE-STOW, v.t.
To bestow improperly. Milton.
MIS-BE-STOW-ED, pp.
Bestowed improperly.
MIS-BE-STOW-ING, ppr.
Bestowing improperly.
MIS'BORN, a.
Born to evil. Spenser.
MIS-CAL'CU-LATE, v.t.
To calculate erroneously. Arbuthnot.
MIS-CAL'CU-LA-TED, pp.
Erroneously calculated.
MIS-CAL'CU-LA-TING, ppr.
Committing errors in calculation.
Erroneous calculation.
MIS-CALL', v.t.
To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
MIS-CALL'ED, pp.
Misnamed.
MIS-CALL'ING, ppr.
Misnaming.
MIS-CAR'RIAGE, n.
- Unfortunate event of an undertaking; failure. When a counselor, to save himself, / Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden.
- Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous. Rogers.
- The act of bringing forth before the time, but so late that the young are capable of surviving. Encyc.
MIS-CAR'RI-ED, pp.
Failed of the intended effect; brought forth prematurely.
MIS-CAR'RY, v.i.
- To fail of the intended effect; not to succeed; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat; applied to persons or undertakings, and to things. We say, a project, scheme, design, enterprise, attempt, has miscarried. Have you not heard of Frederick, the great soldier, who miscarried at sea? Shak. My ships have all miscarried. Shak.
- To bring forth young before the proper time, but still at so late a period as to be capable of surviving.
MIS-CAR'RY-ING, ppr.
Failing of the intended effect. Hos. ix.
MIS-CAST', n.
An erroneous cast or reckoning.
MIS-CAST', pp.
Erroneously cast or reckoned.
MIS-CAST', v.t.
To cast or reckon erroneously. Brown.
MIS-CAST'ING, ppr.
Casting or reckoning erroneously.
MIS-CEL-LA-NA'RI-AN, a. [See Miscellany.]
Belonging to miscellanies; of miscellanies. Miscellanarian authors. Shaftsbury.
A writer of miscellanies. Shaftsbury.