mistone en · VERB
Etymology
From mis- + tone.
Meanings
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(transitive) To give a bad or wrong tone to.
On the whole it were better to misguide a child in knowledge, which it can remedy later, than to mistone it in feeling, for which there is no remedy. A jarring note implanted in its nature might spoil the music of its life […]
1895, Henry Maudsley, The Pathology of Mind, page 541:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mistoning | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mistones | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| mistoned | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mistoned | Tense=Past | lexicographic |