单词 | mispraise |
释义 | mispraisev. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > dispraise or discommend [verb (transitive)] mispraisec1330 dispraisec1386 disallowa1393 unpraisea1400 discommendc1454 c1330 St. Katherine (Auch.) 109 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 244/1 (MED) Whi mispraises [v.r. dyspraysyst] þou our god & holdest hem of so litel prise? 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 136 He prayzeþ more þe oþre þe more he him-zelue misprayseþ. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 25842 (MED) Mai naman mis-prais þe thing Þe quilk es broght to god ending. a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) 3308 (MED) Sir, I sal noght hir mysprays, For sho es so curtays and hende. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 8 Your Chyldren many yeris herafter shal be myspreysed and blamed therfore. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 157 (MED) He is to reprowe that ouer-myche Preysyth and to ofte, as he that myspreysyth and blamyth ouer-meswre. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 196 Thus speaking, ye mispraise the sacred rites Of matrimonial Hera and of Jove. ΚΠ 1550 Sheph. Kal. vii. D vij When any maketh a vow and misprayseth to doo it. 3. transitive. To praise wrongly or inappropriately. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > commend or praise [verb (transitive)] > wrongly mispraisea1631 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 308 They, whom I have so mispraised, are the worse in the sight of God, for my over-praising. 1668 Duchess of Newcastle Presence ii. i. 31 in Plays Wit cannot rule it self; for Wit is ruled by Judgment; and thus by mispraising Wit, you have done Judgment wrong. 1855 Ld. Raglan in Economist 7 July 725/2 Let it not be supposed that, in refusing to mispraise him, we would refuse a large share in that grateful homage which all England is paying to his memory. 1888 19th Cent. Sept. 341 The natural frailty to mispraise and overpraise. 1909 Amer. Hist. Rev. 14 430 Our magazine-writers, ministering to a public taste that would at all costs have colonial history invested with social brilliancy, have persistently mispraised it [sc. Virginian hospitality]. 1974 Shakespeare Q. 25 174 Gielgud's performance was..in no way injured by the fact that he was able to blend his several powers; Anglophiliac critics mispraised him by separating out one of these qualities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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