misdread

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ dread.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪsˈdɹɛd/

Noun

misdread (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Dread of evil.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, act I, scene ii:

     Then it is thus: the passions of the mind,
     That have their first conception by misdread

Verb

misdread (third-person singular simple present misdreads, present participle misdreading, simple past and past participle misdreaded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To regard with dread.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “misdread”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• disarmed