释义 |
misˈmetre, v. [mis-1 1.] trans. To spoil the metre of. Hence misˈmetring vbl. n.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 1796 So preye I god that noon miswryte thee, Ne thee mismetre for defaute of tongue. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.) 220 Go, little boke! I praye God the save From misse metrying by wrong impression. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. concl. 217 Take gud tent..Ȝhe nowder maggill nor mismetir my ryme. 1829Southey Sir T. More II. 228 note, Whether these verses are her own composition, or whether she only remembered, and elongated, and mis-metered them. 1891T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer III. vii. 207 No one capable of reading can manage to mismetre them. |