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amissing, ppl. a.|əˈmɪsɪŋ|
[the phrase a-missing (see a prep.1 12, 13) erroneously taken as a single word, as if from a vb. to amiss; chiefly in Scotch writers.]
= missing; wanting.
1634–46J. Row (father) Hist. Kirk (1842) 131 The Kirk-Register being amissing. 1680Kid in Spirit of Popery 7 A Publick Spirit in contending for God..is much amissing amongst us. 1753Stewart's Trial App. 84 The deponent..does not know by what means the said lock..now amissing, was lost. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 10 Only his sloop was amissing. 1873Burton Hist. Scotl. V. lvii, Examined as to what he had done with the valuables amissing. |