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▪ I. misuse, n.|mɪsˈjuːs|
[mis-1 4. Cf. OF. mesus abuse, excess, misdeed.]
1. Wrong or improper use; misapplication.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. i. (1495) 48 Isidorr sayth by a mysuse Homo a man hath the name of humo the erthe. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 88 To be ware leaste by mysvse of oure free wylle we falle in blyndnesse and hardnes of harte. 1483Cath. Angl. 241/2 A Misvse; Abusus, Abusio. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. x. §15 How much Names taken for Things are apt to mislead the Vnderstanding,..and that, perhaps, in words little suspected for any such Misuse. 1707Atterbury Serm. (1726) II. iv. 112 Lest he should punish our Misuse of his Mercies, by stopping the Course of them. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. iv. §3. 391 A great Misuse of Time to dwell upon such Speculations. 1866J. Martineau Ess. I. 14 Artful misuse of the confidence of others. 1885Manch. Exam. 28 Mar. 5/4 The gross misuse of his public position for private profit.
2. Ill-usage. rare.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. i. 43 Vpon whose dead corpses there was such misuse, Such beastly, shamelesse transformation, By those Welshwomen done, as [etc.]. 1881Swinburne Mary Stuart i. i. 10 The Catholics naked here to all misuse Fall off in numbered force, in means and power.
†3. Evil custom or conduct. Obs.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 233 Let these fooles auoyde this mad misuse, and folowe the right way of vertuous grauitie. 1554in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. xviii. 47 Thus plainly ye se one mischievous misuse in this mass. 1604Shakes. Oth. iv. ii. 109 How haue I bin behau'd, that he might sticke The small'st opinion on my least misvse?
▪ II. misuse, v.|mɪsˈjuːz|
[mis1 1. Cf. OF. mesuser to make a bad use (of), commit an error or misdeed.]
1. trans. To use or employ wrongly or improperly; to apply to a wrong purpose.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. vii. (1868) 145 Þe comune worde of men mysusiþ..þis manere speche of fortune. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 252 And so many men mysosiþ [? read mysvsiþ] her power. c1460G. Ashby Dicta Philos. 378 That mysguideth his liuelode..And al his reuenues mysvseth! 1486Bk. St. Albans d ij, Som folke mysuse this terme draw. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. ii. 13, I haue misvs'd the Kings Presse damnably. 1620Hist. Fr. Rush in Thoms E. Eng. Prose Rom. (1858) I. 289 He had so vildly misused the order of his religion. 1754T. Gardner Hist. Dunwich iii At the house is a stone coffin misused as a trough. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 244 A king cannot misuse his power, without the advice of evil counsellors. 1842Tennyson Godiva 72 The Powers, who wait On noble deeds, cancell'd a sense misused. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede v, It turns a man's stomach t' hear the Scripture misused i' that way. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths II. 117 It will not be men's fault if she misuse her liberty.
2. To subject to ill-treatment; to maltreat, ill-use.
1540in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Crt. Adm. I. (1894) 99 With moche other wrongs and injuries that I and other hath been mysused in tymes past. 1553Act 1 Mary Sess. ii. c. 3 §1 Yf any person..shall..molest..disquiet or misuse, any Preachour. 1625Purchas Pilgrims II. 1173, I was taken by the Turks and misused and almost slain. 1632Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 128 Whereupon Walton beat the prisoner, haleing and dragginge him towardes the common goale, and otherwise misused him. 1781Cowper Hope 128 Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lvi, They haven't been misusing you with sticks, or pokers,..have they, Johnny? 1884Tennyson Becket i. iv, Who misuses a dog would misuse a child—they cannot speak for themselves.
†b. To violate, ravish, or debauch. Obs.
1382Wyclif Judg. xix. 25 The which whanne al nyȝt thei hadden mysusid, thei laften hir eerly. 1538Bale God's Promises v, Of late dayes thu hast mysused Bersabe, The wyfe of Urye. c1540W. Sampson in Old Ways (1892) 106 Bicause I have myseused here, I intende to make [her] a goode woman.
†3. refl. To misconduct oneself. Obs.
1532in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 109 For the Mysvsage of Seriaunts... Yf any of the serjaunts..doth mysusse themselfe, or geve not attendans to the Mayre, Aldermen, and Bayllyffs. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis 953 in Satir. Poems Reform. xlv, I schame to tell Sa oft as I misvsit my sell, In guyding of the giftis of grace. 1581Lambarde Eiren. ii. vii. (1588) 202 If any such person..shall be taken begging, or wandring, or misusing himselfe [cf. misorder v., quot. 1572].
†4. trans. To speak evil of; to abuse with words; to revile, deride. Obs.
1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. 128/1 in Holinshed II, None taunting, checking, or misusing an other in anie vnseemelie wordes or deeds. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. i. 160. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. vii. (1651) 356 Socrates was brought upon the stage by Aristophanes, and misused to his face. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. xiii. (1821) 143 Doe you not heare him misuse mee in words?
†5. ‘To speak falsely of, to misrepresent’. rare—1.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. clii, All my vows are oaths but to misuse thee.
†6. To deceive, delude. (Cf. abuse v. 4.) Obs.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxv. 36 Fro thi flesh kut hir awei lest euermore sche mysvse thee. 1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. ii. 28 Proofe enough, to misuse the Prince, to vexe Claudio,..and kill Leonato. 1601Sir W. Cornwallis Ess. xxxii, Wee are misvsed by these spirites both night and day. |