† misentreatv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To treat badly; to mistreat, abuse.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > ill-treat [verb (transitive)]
tuckc888
tawc893
misbedeOE
graithc1330
to fare fair or foul with1340
misusea1382
outrayc1390
beshrewc1430
huspelc1440
misentreat1450
mistreat1453
abuse?1473
to mayne evil1481
demean1483
to put (a person) to villainya1513
harry1530
mishandle1530
touse1531
misorder1550
worrya1556
yark1565
mumble1588
buse1589
crow-tread1593
disabuse1607
maltreat1681
squeeze1691
ill-treat1794
punish1801
tousle1826
ill-use1841
razoo1890
mess1896
to play horse with1896
to bugger about1921
slug1925
to give (a person) the works1927
to kick about or around1938
mess1963
1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 189/2 Arestyng and misentretyng, ayenst the lawes of God and libertees of the Church, the Dean.
1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 399/3 A clerke..sayd it was not honest..to mysentrete the holy body by vyolente hondes.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria i. f. 4 Pristhod is holy, and ought nat to be misintreatted.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie lxxiii. 448 S. Paule warneth maisters yt they should not mis-intreat their seruaunts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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