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misdo, v.|mɪsˈduː|
Forms: see do v.1
[OE. misdón = OFris. misdua, MDu., Du. misdoen, OHG. missa-, missituon, -duan (MHG. missetuon, G. misstun): see mis-1 1 and do v.1]
1. intr. To do evil or wrong; to do harm or injury to, unto, against. Now rare or Obs.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. John iii. 20 Hælc monn..seðe yfle vel mis doeð. a1023Wulfstan Hom. I. (1883) 270 Ac to fela is þæra, þe ær þisan misdydan. 1154O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1135 Durste nan man misdon wið oðer on his time. c1200Ormin 3974, & ȝiff þatt iss þatt he missdoþ Onn aniȝ kinne wise, Itt reoweþþ himm. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3555 He hauen sineged and misdon. a1300Cursor M. 7914 Ga to dauid king, and sai He has misdon again mi lai. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxvi. (Baptista) 436 [He] with-stud in na degre agane þame þat in ony thing til hyme mysded. 1470–85Malory Arthur xvi. xvi. 686 Fair swete Ihesu that I haue mysdoo haue mercy vpon my sowle. c1500Melusine 261 There nys none that may say that euer we mysdyde..ayenst our souerayne lord. 1561Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc i. i, I knowe nothynge at all, Wher in I haue misdone vnto his Grace. 1618Wither Motto, Nec Careo Juvenilia (1633) 531 To see my Friend misdoe, I want not eyes, Nor Love to cover his infirmities. 1671Milton P.R. i. 225 The erring Soul Not wilfully mis-doing, but unware Misled. 1676Dryden State Innoc. v. i, I have misdone; and I endure the Smart. 1875–86W. Somerset Gloss., Misdo, to transgress; to do amiss.
2. trans. With pronominal or vague object: To do amiss. ? Obs.
a1060Laws of æthelred (Liebermann) 258 ᵹif hit ᵹeweorpeð þæt man unwilles..æniᵹ þing misdeð. a1200Moral Ode 100 Al þet we misduden her ho hit wulleð kuðe þere. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 491 Ere Ion..bisouȝte is grace of þat he adde misdo. c1320R. Brunne Medit. 462 What haþ he mysdo to dey þus? 1390Gower Conf. I. 122 Godd it thee foryive If thou have eny thing misdo Touchende of this. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xl, They haue kyssed and made frendes: and all is forgyuen that was mysse done. 1528More Dyaloge iii. Wks. 225/1 The thinges that they mysdo. 1592Kyd Sp. Trag. ii. v. 28 O poore Horatio, what hadst thou misdonne. 1671Milton Samson 911 To shew what recompense Toward thee I intend for what I haue misdone. 1837Carlyle in Lett. Jane W. Carlyle (1883) I. 70, I know not whether this book is worth anything, nor what the world will do with it, or misdo.
b. To do (work), perform (a duty) improperly.
1840Carlyle Heroes iv. 274 The work committed to him will be misdone. 1858― Fredk. Gt. x. v. II. 642 He could have done us this little service..and he..has been tempted into misdoing it! 1893Advance (Chicago) 23 Mar., To misapprehend and mis-do the duty now fronting us.
†3. To do evil or wrong to (a person); to harm, injure, wrong. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 124 Ȝif ei mon oðer ei wummon mis-seið oðer mis-deð ou. c1275Lay. 22456 And ich þe wolle loke to þat no king ne sal þe mis-do [c 1205 woh don] . c1357Lay Folks Catech. (T.) 370 To be tholemode when men misdos us. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 252 Misdoth he no man ne with his mouth greueth. 1470–85Malory Arthur v. xii. 181 Madame ther shal none of my subgettys mysdoo you ne your maydens. 1530Palsgr. 637/1, I nouther mysded hym nor myssayd him. 1597Lyly Wom. in Moon iii. i. 24, Pardon me, That I misdid thee in my witles rage.
†b. To injure (an inanimate object). Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 111 Mysbyleued men mysdede neuere þat chirche. c1400Chron. Eng. lxxii. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LII. 12 The walles were so stronge that noo man myght hem mysdoo.
†4. To destroy, put out of existence. refl. To do away with oneself. Obs.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 2642 Hamonel [? Hamones] likenes was ðor-on; ðis crune is broken, ðis is misdon. 1592Kyd Sp. Trag. iv. v. 6 Faire Isabella by her selfe misdone. 1599Warn. Faire Wom. ii. 669 Is not The better part of me by me misdone? My husband, is he not slaine? 1600Heywood 2nd Pt. Edw. IV, Wks. 1874 I. 142 Drownd in a butte of Malmsey! that is strange, Doubtless he neuer would misdoe himself? 1613J. Davies (Heref.) Muses Teares D 2 b, Seuere Torquatus, did his Sonne mis-do For charging, 'gainst his Chardge, his brauing Fo. 1619in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1829) App. 348 A burial-place for children dying without baptism, and for such as had misdone themselves. |