miswear
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
miswear (third-person singular simple present miswears, present participle miswearing, simple past miswore, past participle misworn)
- (obsolete or rare) To wear badly or wrongly.
- c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
- the people buy in effect chaffe for corn , for that which is miswrought will miswear
- c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
References edit
- “miswear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.