单词 | mislive |
释义 | mislivev.ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [verb (intransitive)] > be evil misliveOE lithera1300 pimp1639 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > act wrongly or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > lead a bad life misliveOE OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xix. 185 Nu bið mannum sceamu, þæt hi mislybban sceolon. OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity: Be Gehadedum Mannum (Junius) (1959) 217 Þa mæssepreostas and ða diaconas, þe misleofedan her on worulde, wæron on witnunge wælhreowlice geswene. a1425 (?c1375) N. Homily Legendary (Harl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 137 He teches..Þo men þat mislifand ware To mend þam-self. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 87 If he misliue in leudnes and lust. 2. transitive. To live (one's life, etc.) badly; to misspend. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)] forspendc893 scatter1154 dispend1303 waste1340 misspendc1390 miswastec1400 consumec1425 waste1474 profund1527 lasha1535 prodige1538 lavish1542 to play away1562 riot1566 embezzle1578 dilapidate1590 squander1593 confound1598 to make ducks and drakes of or withc1600 prodigalize1611 profuse1611 squander1611 paddle1616 bezzle1617 to run out of ——1622 to piss away1628 prodigal1628 decoct1629 to bangle (away)1632 debauch1632 deboise1632 to fribble away1633 to fool out1635 to run outa1640 to fiddle away1667 slattera1681 dissipate1682 to play off1693 duck-and-drake1700 liquidate1702 sparkle away1703 waster1821 befool1861 to frivol away1866 to play (at) duck and drake with1872 to fling away1873 mislive1887 slather1904 mucker1928 profligate1938 peter1956 spaff2002 1887 S. W. Mitchell Masque 45 Heartily do I beseech thee pray That I may make amend of time mislived. 1930 G. de Purucker Questions we all Ask (1947) IV. 56 ‘Life is Joy,’ as Katherine Tingley used to say—not, however, as men mislive life, but in itself. 1996 Mississippi Rev. (Electronic ed.) Nov. It gives rise to apprehensions that the collector has mis-lived his life somehow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.OE |
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