mismakev.
/ˌmɪsˈmeɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈmeɪk/ Now rare.
1. † b. transitive. Scottish. To unmake (in quot.: spec. to depose). Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To make badly (in various senses); to make bad, to mar.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > construct or manufacture clumsily or unskilfully
misworkOE
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c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 65 Nu ælc þare monnæ þe mismaky his lif..his mod is ablend swylc he blind ȝeboren beo.
1394 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1836) III. 257 A feynyd chartre in our alle forsaid confeffes name mysmaad.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 157 That God mismakkis ȝe do amend.
1613 Bp. W. Cowper Holy Alphabet 186 Wee haue mismade our selues,..and are not now like vnto that which God created vs.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) To Mismack, Mismake, to shape or form improperly; applied to clothes.
1873 Catholic World Jan. 512/2 Why, that machine would grind up an elephant, and never mismake its face.
1929 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 39 336 Minds are being made, mis-made, and un-made.
1985 Golf Mag. (Nexis) May 66 It [sc. cheating] can be as simple as mismaking a scorecard.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > change back [verb (transitive)]
reversea1393
converta1425
undo1426
unmakec1450
recommencea1513
unweave1542
mismake1575
resubstantiate1584
unspin1587
remit1591
retrievea1596
remetamorphose1598
remorphize1603
reconvert1609
unlive1621
unravel1637
relapse1652
to bring about1680
uncoin1833
unpay1842
reset1846
revert1856
unweb1882
1575 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 41 That we haid spokine off his Graice that we haid maid his Graice and we waild mismak him.
2. transitive (reflexive). Scottish in later use. To trouble oneself, put oneself out; to be upset.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > upset or perturb oneself [verb (reflexive)]
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?c1450 (c1425) Brut (Harl. 24) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1874) 52 24 (MED) Be stille, good wyff..there of mysmake you noght.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) To Mismack, Mismake,..2. To trouble, to disturb; as, ‘Dinna mismake yoursell for me’.
1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. 166/2 He could threep a lee in your face, an' no mismak him.
a1917 E. C. Smith Braid Haaick (1927) 15 Hei sat there curmudd, never mismaikin heis-sul.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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