mistrain
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mistrain (third-person singular simple present mistrains, present participle mistraining, simple past and past participle mistrained)
- (transitive) To draw (something) badly or in the wrong direction.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- For she by force is still fro me detayned, / And with corruptfull brybes is to untruth mis-trayned.