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mis-ˈseem, v. Now rare. [mis-1 1.] trans. To misbecome.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 62 Ne wost þou noght þat yt myssemys þi dignite..whanne þou swerys? 1513Douglas æneis iv. vi. 108 Nor it sall neuir me irk, na ȝit misseme, The worthy Dido to hald in fresche memory. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. iii. 53 Ne certes, daughter, that same warlike wize, I weene, would you misseeme. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. iv, He hath at least lent him nothing that doth belye him, or misseeme him. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 57 Divines ought not hold any opinion (it mis-seemeth their profession so to hold) which hath no footing in Scripture. 1819Chron. in Ann. Reg. 523 A spirit that would not have misseemed the most illustrious of her ancestry. 1836Carlyle in Academy 17 Sept. (1898) 272/1 His head is getting a shade of grey..which does not mis⁓seem him, but looks very well. |