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▪ I. misˈconduct, n.
[mis-1 4.]
1. Bad management; mismanagement. Often quasi-spec., malfeasance or culpable neglect of an official in regard to his office.
1710Palmer Proverbs 2 Princes have lost their crowns by the mis-conduct of the first year of their reigns. 1736T. Lediard Life Marlborough II. 357 This new Commander, by some unaccountable Misconduct,..suffer'd himself to be surprized. 1788Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. 1827 VIII. 314 Whenever in any matter of money there is concealment, you must presume misconduct. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. ii. 599 Censure..of ministers of the Crown for misconduct of diplomatic affairs.
2. Improper conduct; wrong behaviour. Now often, in judicial trials, spec. in the sense of ‘adultery’.
a1729Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) xii. 236 It..highly concerned them to reflect, how great Obligations..the Memory of their past Misconduct..laid on them..to walk with Care and Circumspection. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. lxxii, Let wisdom be by past misconduct learned. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1875) III. xii. 111 Stirred up by the misconduct of their eldest son. 1879Blakiston Teacher 6 When a teacher feels his temper ruffled by a child's misconduct.
†b. pl. Instances of misconduct. Obs.
1711Addison Spect. No. 256 ⁋4 Such as are guilty..of the same Slips or Misconducts in their own Behaviour. 1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. I. 106 His misconducts were incurable. 1857Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. I. iii. 8 All malpractices and misconducts shall be smothered by the exercise of brute force at our expense.
▪ II. misconˈduct, v.
[mis-1 1.]
1. trans. To mismanage.
1755Johnson, To misconduct, to manage amiss; to carry on wrong. 1794Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. 1827 VIII. 125 The administration misconducted the people oppressed. 1885Law Times LXXVIII. 167/1 The second [sale], though not misconducted, had not realised the value of the property.
2. refl. To misbehave oneself.
1883Sir E. Fry in Law Rep. (11 Q.B. Div.) 596 A barrister may be..reprimanded by the judge if he misconducts himself in court. 1901Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 11 Oct. 2/1 The Jacksons..induced girls to misconduct themselves with the belief that it was a necessary part of their religious devotions. 1922Joyce Ulysses 318 Belle in her bloomers misconducting herself. Ibid. 457 He made improper overtures to me to misconduct myself at half past four p.m. on the following Thursday. |