misseek

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ seek.

Verb

misseek (third-person singular simple present misseeks, present participle misseeking, simple past and past participle missought)

(obsolete) To seek for wrongly.
- c. 1527–1542, Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Of the Mean and Sure Estate (written to John Poyntz)”, in Edward Arber, editor, The Surrey & Wyatt anthology, 1509-1547, published 1901, page 7:
  And yet the thing that most is your desire, / Ye do misseek, with more travail and care!
- 1840, Jean Calvin, A commentary on the Psalms of David:
  Still this doctrine must be extended further: for thereby we gather generally that God is missought under outward shapes, which have no likeness or affinity to his heavenly glory.
- 1841 April, “What is Earthly Happiness”, in The New York Visitor and Lady's Parlor Magazine, page 315:
  Yet, when missought, she is often found, and when unexpected, often obtained; while those who seek for her most diligently, fail the most because they seek her where she is not.
- 1908 March, Aurelius E. Philips, “Victorious Though Defeated”, in The University of Tennessee Magazine, volume 21, number 6, page 147:
  What missought pleasure or ill-timed errand could have brought them out on such a night?

Anagrams

Kimeses