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miscreˈated, ppl. a.
[mis-1 2.]
Created or formed improperly or unnaturally; mis-shapen, misformed. Also used as an abusive epithet.
In the first quot. a mistranslation.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxxvi. 160 b, These wretched Græcians are left vnder the miserable seruitude of these miscreated Mahometists [orig. des mescreans Mahometistes]. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 42 For nothing might abash the villein bold, Ne mortall steele emperce his miscreated mould. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden G 2 b, An Oration, including the miscreated words and sentences in the Doctors Booke. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 683 What art thou,..That dar'st..advance Thy miscreated Front athwart my way? 1712Henley Spect. No. 396 ⁋2 That Mongrel miscreated (to speak in Miltonic) kind of Wit, vulgarly termed the Pun. 1778Wesley Wks. (1872) XIV. 278 A miscreated phantom, called ‘The Spiritual Magazine’. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 167 Every scraper on catgut as intent on the miscreated noise, as if [etc.]. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son ii. 26 Ill-finished, dwarfish, or miscreated abortions. 1868Swinburne Blake 42 This monstrous nomenclature, this jargon of miscreated things in chaos. |