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misˈplace, v.
[mis-1 1.]
1. trans. To put in a wrong place or in wrong hands.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. ii. 44 Ile haue this Crown of mine cut fro my shoulders, Before ile see the Crowne so foule mis-plac'd. c1600― Sonn. lxvi, And gilded honor shamefully misplast. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xxxi, If he have not washt a glasse well or misplaced a stoole. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ iii. i. §9 Many times arguments may be good in their order, but they are mis-placed. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Florist, Handling a Flower..is..apt to misplace the Leaves. 1781Cowper Table-T. 39 The globe and sceptre in such hands misplaced. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 60 [The teeth] may be misplaced by incurvation, or projection, or obliquity. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) I. vi. 489 Secondary authorities have altogether misplaced the date.
b. To assign a wrong position to.
1551Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 157 To prooue that it [the earth] standeth in the myddle of the worlde,..I wyll declare certayne inuincible reasons for confutation of them that mysseplace it. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 6 That..the Spaniards, in their posterior charts, misplaced Solomon's islands.
†c. absol. To misplace one's words. Obs.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. i. 90 Elb. Proue it before these varlets here thou honorable man, proue it. Esc. Doe you heare how he misplaces?
2. To set (one's affections) on a wrong object; to place (one's confidence) amiss; † to spend (time) unprofitably. Usually in pa. pple. (cf. next).
1638Wilkins New World ii. (1684) 176 In the study of which, so many do misplace their younger Years. 1665Dryden Ind. Emp. v. i, Your guilty kindness why do you mis-place? 1666M. M. Solomon's Prescr. 82 Hast thou mis⁓plac't thy heart on a treacherous Friend? 1710Palmer Proverbs 174 A man of honour isn't therefore to be fool'd, because he has mis-plac'd his address. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 50 Power misemployed, munificence misplaced. 1838James Robber I. vii. 159 With that bright confidence which you shall never find misplaced, you have yielded your heart [etc.]. |