misget
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English misgeten, equivalent to mis- + get.
Verb
editmisget (third-person singular simple present misgets, present participle misgetting, simple past misgot, past participle misgotten)
- (obsolete, transitive) To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- the fruitlesse end
Of thy vaine boast , and spoile of love misgot
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “misget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.