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misaˈddress, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To address wrongly or impertinently. Also misaˈddressed ppl. a. and misaˈddressing vbl. n.
1648Boyle Seraphic Love (1660) 49 A fervent Love seems little less than Devotion misaddrest. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. II. vii. v. 225 This one [letter]..by mere misaddressing,..fell into the hands of vigilant Rittmeister Katte. 1885McConkey Hero of Cowpens xxiv. 228 These..cautions seem singularly misaddressed, to the man who had never been known to be surprised from Quebec to Cowpens. 1892Stevenson Vailima Lett. (1895) 163 Receiving misaddressed letters. |