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misturn, v.|mɪsˈtɜːn| Forms: see turn v. [mis-1 1. Partly after OF. mestourner.] 1. trans. To turn in a wrong direction; to pervert, invert; to reverse the order of; to turn to a wrong use.
c1325in Rel. Ant. I. 265 Armes other legges mis-turnd wose syth [sc. in dreams], Langour ant mournyng that bith. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 1617 Þat es to say þam sall be wa Þat here mysturnes þair lyfe swa. 1382Wyclif Gal. i. 7 Ther ben summe that disturblen ȝou, and wolen mysturne the euangelie of Crist. 1390Gower Conf. I. 56 Diverse men..Thurgh sihte of hem mistorned were, Stondende as Stones hiere and there. c1440Jacob's Well 142 Þou mys⁓turnyst þe tyme þat god ordeynyd, for þou makyst day of nyȝt, & nyȝt of day. a1450Knt. de la Tour 71 The unlefulle synne of lecherye..mistornithe the ordre of nature. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 359/1 Tindal..manifestlye misturneth the mynde and sentence of our sauiour. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 239 Wherupon followeth, that y⊇ doctrine of iustification is mistourned, yea ouerturned from the very foundation. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 398 The state of the Question is mis⁓tourned by the Romanistes. a1625Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 187 To reduce a water-course that is misturned. 2. intr. To turn in a wrong direction; to go wrong.
1390Gower Conf. I. 36 And whan this litel world mis⁓torneth, The grete world al overtorneth. Ibid. III. 236 If the Monthe of Juil schal frese And that Decembre schal ben hot, The yeer mistorneth. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xxiv. (1859) 29 Bokes of moralyte techen what wey a trewe pylgrym owed for to take and not for to mystorne to one syde, ne to other. So misˈturning vbl. n.
c1400Rom. Rose 5545 And Fortune, mishapping, Whan upon men she is falling, Thurgh misturning of hir chaunce. |