misdight
English
Etymology
From mis- + dight.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪt
Adjective
misdight (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- Her heart gan grudge for very deepe despight / Of so unmanly maske in misery misdight.
- c. 1600, Joseph Hall, Satires
- Despised nature suit them once aright, / Their body to their coat, both now misdight. / Their body to their clothes might shapen be, / That nill their clothes shape to their bodie.
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