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▪ I. † misˈfall, n.
[mis-1 4.]
Mishap, misfortune.
1340Ayenb. 84 Kueade mysfalles and zorȝes. Ibid. 86, 182. c 1489 Caxton Blanchardyn xii. 44 Ye wyll scandalyze & vttre your mysfal that is now happed to you of one man.
▪ II. † misˈfall, v. Obs.
[mis-1 1. Cf. MLG., MDu., Du. misvallen, MHG. missevallen, Ger. missfallen.]
1. intr. To suffer misfortune, come to grief.
a1300Cursor M. 7820 His hend he wrang..þat godds folk suld sua mis-fall. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2005 Humbert gan þer mys-falle..ffor he dreynte þerin. 1375Barbour Bruce xii. 365 And thai may happin to mysfall.
2. impers. or said of the event: To happen unfortunately, fall out amiss. it misfell me: misfortune befell me.
1340Ayenb. 193 Hit is wel riȝt þet hit misualle to him..þet deþ harm uader oþer moder. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1530 Al-though thee ones on a tyme misfille Whan Vulcanus had caught thee in his las. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 55 Whiche mysfylle her euyl, ffor the false felle foxe awayted wel his tyme [etc.]. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 70 Thou art blinde and mad to set thy brayne All thing to venge by wrath that doth misfall. 1530Palsgr. 637/2 Sythe you wyll nat be ruled, if it mysfall with you, you can blame no body but yourselfe. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. v. 10 Thereat she gan..to upbrayd that chaunce which him misfell. 1615Sylvester Job Triumph. 157 Yet did not Job, for all that him mis-fell, Murmur at God. |