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▪ I. † misˈfare, n. Obs.
[f. mis-1 4 + fare n.1]
Going wrong or astray; mishap, misfortune.
a1300Cursor M. 315 His sun..þat wat All þinges þat haldes stat, And halds þam up fro misfare Þat þai ne worth to noght. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 213 Sterynge and meuynge in lymes wiþ oute eny mysfare [orig. motus membrorum sine errore]. c1470Henry Wallace x. 1060 Mekill dolour it did him in his mynd, Off thair mysfayr. 1496Dives & Pauper (W. de W.) x. ii. 372/2 They were more enclyned to lecherye for welfare than to robberye for mysfare. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. iii. 24 Crying aloud to shew her sad misfare Unto the knights.
▪ II. † misˈfare, v. Obs.
Forms: see fare v.1
[OE. misfaran = OFris. misfara, MHG. missevarn, ON. misfara: see mis-1 1 and fare v.1]
1. intr. To fare ill, come to grief, be unfortunate.
c1000ælfric Hom. (Th.) I. 100 Sume..cweðað ðæt hi þurh bletsunge misfarað, and ðurh wyriᵹunge ᵹeðeoð. a1023Wulfstan Hom. xviii. (1883) 104 Eala, ᵹefyrn is, þæt ðurh deofol fela þinga misfor. c1230Hali Meid. 34 For nis ha neauer wiðute care leste hit ne mis-feare. c1350Will. Palerne 1359 Þi fader and al his folk so misfaren hadde, þat alle here liues in a stounde hadde be lore. c1420Sir Amadace (Camden) xxi, A dede cors opon a bere lay A woman alle mysfare. 1496Dives & Pauper (W. de W.) vii. xxviii. 319/1 In what londe usurye is used openly that londe shall mysfare. 1621Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 232 Do ȝe the contrair, ȝour housis will misfair. 1633Heywood Eng. Trav. v, If shee misfare I am a man more wretched in her losse, Then had I forfeited life and estate.
b. Of an enterprise: To miscarry, fail.
c1375Barbour Bruce (Edinb. MS.) x. 529 For it wes hys ententioun To put hym till all awentur Or that a sege on hym mysfur. 1513Douglas æneis ix. Prol. 66 Now war me laith my lang laubour mysfur.
2. To go wrong; to transgress.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. i. 29 Forðon oft for ðæs lareowes unwisdome misfarað [orig. offendant] ða hieremenn. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1911 If he saȝ hise breðere mis-faren, His fader he it gan vn-hillen. a1300Cursor M. 866, I sagh wel þat i misfard. 1390Gower Conf. II. 115 Er thou so with thiself misfare. 1487How Good Wife Taught Dau. 282 And kep thame fra neyd and mystair, That pouerte gar thame nocht mysfair.
3. trans. (Sc.)
a. To do amiss.
b. To cause to go wrong.
1461Liber Pluscardensis xii. viii, He that all as made As langand gouernance of his Godhade Nathing mysfaris, bot all dois for the best. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 172 He shall..misfair the Government and Guidment of his Country. |