单词 | mismate |
释义 | mismatev. transitive. To mismatch. Also intransitive: to make a mismatch; to mate or marry badly or unsuitably. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [verb (reflexive)] > make unsuitable marriage mismate1891 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [verb (intransitive)] > make unsuitable marriage misyoke1643 mismarry1892 mismate1946 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 382 The windows carefully mismated, no two of a size. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 68 Not quite mismated with a yawning clown. 1891 T. Hardy Group of Noble Dames i. iii. 113 No syllable would have been breathed of how I mismated myself for love of you! 1946 Mod. Lang. Notes 61 73 This is Milton's longest account of this Biblical episode, and it is clear that here the sons of God are pious men who mismate with the daughters of him ‘who slew his brother’. a1956 C. Olson Coll. Poems (1987) 382 Nature mismates as well as she creates. 1984 P. Rose Parallel Lives (1985) 153 He would present himself as a misunderstood genius, mismated with a dull and uncomprehending woman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1825 |
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