Dictionary: MIS-MARK'ED – MIS-PLAC'ED

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MIS-MARK'ED, pp.

Wrongly marked.

MIS-MARK'ING, ppr.

Marking erroneously.

MIS-MATCH', v.t.

To match unsuitably. Southern.

MIS-MATCH'ED, pp.

Unsuitably matched; ill joined.

MIS-MATCH'ING, ppr.

Matching in an unsuitable manner.

MIS-NAME', v.t.

To call by the wrong name. Boyle.

MIS-NAM'ED, pp.

Called by a wrong name.

MIS-NAM-ING, ppr.

Calling by a wrong name.

MIS-NO'MER, n. [Old Fr. mes, wrong, and nommer, to name.]

In law, the mistaking of the true name of a person; a misnaming. [Misnomer, as written by Blackstone, must be a corrupt orthography. In no dialect has name, L. nomen, been written with s, unless by mistake.]

MIS-O-BE'DI-ENCE, n.

Erroneous obedience, or disobedience. [Not used.] Milton.

MIS-OB-SERVE', v.t. [misobzerv'.]

To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke

MI-SOG'A-MIST, n. [Gr. μισεω, to hate, and γαμος, marriage.]

A hater of marriage.

MI-SOG'YN-IST, n. [Gr. μισεω, to hate, and γυνη, woman.]

A woman hater. [Unusual.] Fuller.

MI-SOG'YN-Y, n. [supra.]

Hatred of the female sex.

MIS-O-PIN'ION, n.

Erroneous opinion. Bp. Hall.

MIS-OR'DER, n.

Irregularity; disorderly proceedings. [Not now used; disorder.] Camden.

MIS-OR'DER, v.t.

  1. To order ill; to manage erroneously. [Obs.] Ascham.
  2. To manage ill; to conduct badly. [Obs.] Shak.

MIS-OR'DER-LY, a.

Irregular; disorderly. Ascham.

MIS-OR'DI-NA-TION, n.

Wrong ordination. More.

MIS-PELL', or MIS-PEND', v.t. [&c. See MIS-SPELL, or MIS-SPEND.]

MIS'-PER-SUADE, v.t.

To persuade amiss, or to lead to a wrong notion. Hooker.

MIS-PER-SUA'SION, n.

A false persuasion; wrong notion or opinion. Decay of Piety.

MIS-PIK'EL, n.

Arsenical pyrite; an ore of arsenic, containing this metal in combination with iron, sometime found in cubic crystals, but more often without any regular form. Fourcroy.

MIS-PLACE', v.t.

  1. To put in a wrong place; as, the book was misplaced.
  2. To place on an improper ohject; as, he misplaced his confidence. South.

MIS-PLAC'ED, pp.

Put in a wrong place, or on an improper object.