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单词 misguide
释义 I. misˈguide, n. Obs.
[f. mis-1 4 + guide n. III.]
Misguidance; irregular behaviour.
1596Spenser Hymn Heav. Love 144 Nor spirit, nor Angell..Could make amends to God for mans misguyde.1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xliv. 210 Proserpin her offence (Growen through Mis-Guides, Venial perhaps) we censure in suspence.16..Beggar-Laddie xv. in Child Ballads V. 119 And for a' the lassie's ill misguide, She's now the young knight's lady.
II. misˈguide, v.
[mis-1 1.]
1. refl. To go astray, go wrong; to conduct oneself badly or manage one's affairs improperly.
1390Gower Conf. III. 373 He may sone himself misguide, That seth noght the peril tofore.1483Caxton G. de la Tour k vij b, How the badde..wymmen..were punysshed, as they mysgyded them.1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 423 Quhen that thai se..thair king Misgyde him self in ony kynd of thing.1651Culpepper Astrol Judgem. Dis. (1658) 43 The disease came by the mans own misguiding himself.
2. trans. To mismanage, misgovern, misrule. Hence (mod.Sc.), to treat badly or improperly; to abuse, injure, spoil.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 502 The realme before tyme had been mysseguydyd by offycers.1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxiii. 163 The Parische Kirkis..thay sa misgyde That nane for wynd and rane thairin may byde.1671Milton Samson 912 To shew what recompence Towards thee I intend for what I have misdone, Misguided.1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 94 When they misguided church and state.1787[J. Beattie] Scoticisms 55 The boy misguides his cloaths.—Abuses, or sullies.1893Stevenson Catriona xv, There were whiles when his dander rase to see the Lord's sants misguided.
3. To guide in a wrong direction, misdirect, mislead.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) iij, Blinde foolishenes Misgideth the mindes of people hye and lowe.1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 49 When Phaeton his chariot did misguide.1596Spenser F.Q. vi. iii. 47 Misdoubting least he should misguyde His former malice to some new assay.1667Decay Chr. Piety xvi. §3 Those leaders..who misguide their tractable admiring followers.1680Cotton Compl. Gamester 8 But his drunkenness misguided his hand, so that he ran him only through the arm.1709Pope Ess. Crit. 202 To blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind.1759Goldsm. Polite Learn. vi, The truth is, vanity is more apt to misguide men than false reasoning.1880McCarthy Own Times IV. 338 The curious ignorance of the condition of American..feeling which misguided England's policy.
absol.1696Locke Let. 21 Nov. in F. Bourne Life II. xv. 453 Outward hearing may misguide but internal knowledge cannot err.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. i. ii, The nobles..have nearly ceased either to guide or misguide.
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