misavise

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ avise.

Verb

misavise (third-person singular simple present misavises, present participle misavising, simple past and past participle misavised)

1. (obsolete) To misadvise.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     "Faire martiall Mayd,
     Certes ye misavised beene t'upbrayd
     A gentle knight with so unknightly blame

References

• “misavize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.