miswend
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miswend (third-person singular simple present miswends, present participle miswending, simple past and past participle miswent)
- (obsolete) To go wrong; to stray.
- 1554, “The .iiii. chapter. Of the Strife bytwene Caligula Tiberius and Messalyne”, in A Memorial of Suche Princes, as Since the Tyme of King Richard the Seconde, Haue Been Unfortunate in the Realme of England[1], The Seventh Boke:
- It sitteth not in no maner wyse / A thefe for theft to syt in iudgement, / A lecherous man a lechour to chastise, / Nor he that hath al his lyfe spent / In waste & riote forfeted and miswent.
- 1581, Barnabe Rich, Riche His Farewell to Militarie Profession[2], published 1583:
- I now forsake the former tyme I spent. / And sorie am, for that I was miswent.
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
- But things miscounselled must needs miswend.