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▪ I. misease, n. arch.|mɪsˈiːz|
Forms: see mis-2 and ease n.; also 3 meoseise, 4 myseis, myssis, mishese, meseysey (?), 5 myssaes.
[a. OF. mesaise (from 13th c.), f. mes- mis-2 + aise ease.]
1. Distress, affliction; trouble, misery; extreme suffering or discomfort. Also pl. Obs. exc. arch.
a1225Ancr. R. 114 Al þet flesch þunccheð sur oðer bitter, þet is, pine & weane, & teone, & alle meseise. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2460 Þe vnkynde þou wilt vp reyse, Þe kynde þou puttest to meseysey. c1375Cursor M. 3596 (Fairf.), Squa has now elde þis ysaac led þat he in mys-ese [Cott. langur] lijs in bed. 1382Wyclif Gen. iii. 16, I shal multiply thi myseses and thi conceyuyngis. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋102, I go with-oute returning..to the lond of misese and of derknesse, where-as is the shadwe of deeth. c1440York Myst. xx. 213 Mysese [Towneley sorow] had neuere man more. c1450Merlin 64 And so endured the kynge in grete mysese for love of Ygerne. 1470–85Malory Arthur ix. xix. 367 Alle the mysease that sir tristram hath was for a letter that he fond. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 148/3 Wherfore are ye in so grete mesease for brede? Yf ye haue none thys day ye shal haue to morn. 1490― Godfrey vi. 25 Alle the meseases & the myschiefs that the peple of our lord endured that tyme. c1611Chapman Iliad xiii. 521 His dart, Meriones Pursude, and Adamas so striu'd, with it, and his misease, As doth a Bullocke puffe and storme. 1848Lytton Harold II. v. ii. 25 ‘Gurth, has my father ailed? There is that in his face which I like not’. ‘He hath not complained of misease’, said Gurth, startled. 1900F. S. Ellis Rom. Rose I. 7/178 Covetise eggs men on, for their misease, To gather, but to scatter not.
†2. Lack of the necessaries of life or of the means of living; poverty, need, want. Obs.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 43 Diuicias et paupertates ne dederis michi sed tantum uictui necessaria, louerd ne gif þu me noþer ne woreld winne ne meseise ac mi bare bileue. a1300Cursor M. 4770 Þat he..ar grant þam son menskli to dei, Ar þat misese [Gött. hunger] lang for to drei. a1325Prose Psalter xliii. 26 Þou for-ȝetest our mesais [inopiæ nostræ] and our tribulacioun. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. i. 24 Þat on Clothing is from Chele ow to saue: And þat oþer Mete at Meel for meseise of þiseluen. 1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 31 Quat broyer or syster..falle in mischefe er mys-ese..he schal han Almesse. 1490Caxton Godfrey ci. 153 Seyng that our men suffred so moche famyne and mesease.
3. Uneasiness, disquiet.
1905R. H. Sherard O. Wilde vi. 75, I noticed with some misease that..he seemed to have the middle class contempt for the title of knighthood.
▪ II. † misˈease, a. Obs.
[app. an adj. use of misease n. modelled on F. aise adj. (? for *aaise = à aise at ease); cf. the forms eese, eise, s.v. easy a.]
Distressed, miserable; in want.
a1225Ancr. R. 46 Hwo se is ful meseise, of alle beo heo cwite. Ibid. 162 Uorto urouren ancre þet is meseise [v.r. in meseise]. c1290St. Julian 106 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 259 Þis holie Man..mani Miseise Man in is hous wel loueliche vnder-fonge. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. vii. 26 And amende mesondieux þere-myde and myseyse folke helpe. c1440[see miseased]. c1450Merlin 94 He..yaf his godes..to mysese peple of his reame.
absol.a1400Morte Arth. 667 To mendynantez and mysese in myschefe fallene.
▪ III. † misˈease, v. Obs.—0
[a. obs. F. mesaiser, OF. mesaisier, f. mesaise misease n.]
trans. To trouble, inconvenience.
1530Palsgr. 637/1 If you take this waye, it wyll mysease you. |