misentreat
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
misentreat (third-person singular simple present misentreats, present participle misentreating, simple past and past participle misentreated)
- (obsolete) To treat wrongfully.
- 1483, Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints:
- A clerke‥sayd it was not hones […] to mysentrete the holy body by vyolente hondes.
- 1483, Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints:
References edit
- “misentreat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.