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misusage Now rare.|mɪsˈjuːzɪdʒ|
[mis-1 4. Cf. OF. mesusage.]
†1. Misconduct; corrupt practice, abuse. Obs.
1532[see misuse v. 3]. 1579Roy. Proclam. 15 Dec., The great misusage in the execution of sundrie her Highnes graunts made to diuers persons. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. July 184 Palinode..Yode late on Pilgrimage To Rome,..and then He saw thilke misusage.
2. Ill-usage; maltreatment; † pl. instances of this.
1554–5Eden Decades (Arb.) 386 The fame of theyr mysusage so preuented them that the people of that place also offended therby, wold bring in no wares. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cli. 934 Vnder this saying our Lorde hath comprehended all the misusages that wee can offer to our neighbour. 1601Holland Pliny (1634) I. 30 These misusages which she [sc. the earth] abideth aboue, and in her outward skin, may seeme in some sort tolerable. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. ii. 158 The rest of the Cardinals looking upon the misusage of his person, as a reflection upon the Order. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. Introd. §1. 3 By occasion of the Hardships and Misusages she underwent before. 1837Lockhart Scott (1839) VI. 394 He had no longer any thoughts for the petty misusage of mankind. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. vi. iii. II. 269 Foul misusage, not to be borne by human nature. 1886A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889) 308 The Serbs..were determined only to defend themselves from misusage.
3. Bad or wrong use, misuse.
1567in Strype Ann. Ref. I. (1709) 508 This Misusage of the Privilege that belonged to him, as her Ambassador. a1638Mede Wks. I. (1672) 14 If the Name of God be prophaned by the disesteem and misusage of the things it is called upon. a1849Poe Whipple, etc. Wks. 1864 III. 387 The misusage of ‘like’ in place of ‘as’. |