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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

misdight en · ADJ

Etymology

From mis- + dight.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
    • Her heart gan grudge for very deepe despight / Of so unmanly maske in misery misdight. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
    • Despised nature suit them once aright, / Their body to their coat, both now misdight. / Their body to their clothes might shapen be, / That nill their clothes shape to their bodie. 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC: