| 释义 |
misgo, v. Now dial.|mɪsˈgəʊ|
Pa. tense and pa. pple. as in go v. Cf. miswend.
[mis-1 1.]
1. intr. To go from the right path; to go astray; to go the wrong way. Often in fig. context.
1340Ayenb. 94 Fol he is þet can þane riȝte way and be his wytinde mysgeþ. c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 298 ‘Allas!’ quod she, ‘I hadde almost misgoon; I hadde almost gon to the clerkes bed’. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. x. (Skeat) l. 143 And there thou hast miswent, eschewe the path from hensforward, I rede. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 241 Duryng my lyf with many gret trespace, By many wrong path wher I have mys-went. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys 271 b, But in my iournay if that I haue mysgo By bytynge wordes or scarsnes of scyence. 1600Fairfax Tasso xiv. xviii, All thy souldiours wandred and misgone. 1875–86W. Somerset Gloss. s.v. Miswent.
b. Of a thing: To go astray.
1864Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 242 Send me a single line..by return of post, that I may be sure the thing has not misgone.
2. intr. and pass. To go astray, go wrong in conduct or action; to err, make a mistake.
a1300Cursor M. 16148 O galilee þan es he born, Þe folk he dos mis-ga [Fairf. & bringis our folk in wa]. a1350St. Nicholas 307 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 15 Þe iew sayd þan: ‘Þou has mis-gone, For to me payd þou neuer none’. c1400Rule St. Benet (Prose) 5 Þe abot sal be blamid if þe cuuent mis-ga. c1450Bk. Curtasye 363 in Babees Bk., Ȝif any mann hase in court mys-gayne. a1500Plowman's Tale 756 Such mister men ben all misgo. [Echoed by Spenser Sheph. Cal., July 201.] 1500–20Dunbar Poems ix. 70 Plane I rewoik in thir quhair I miswent. 1605Marston Du. Courtezan ii. D, Lord, how was I misgone, how easie ti's to erre. 1875–86W. Somerset Gloss., Miswent, p.t. and p.p., went astray; gone astray. In these tenses common, but obs. in the pr.t.
3. Of a business, etc.: To go wrong, miscarry.
1766Nicol Poems 21 (E.D.D.) But if a' mercy things mis⁓gae. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. (1858) 125 The business had all misgone in the interim! 1866― Remin. I. 169 Some whole fleet of cargoes had by sudden change of price during the voyage ruinously misgone. 1866Gregor Banffsh. Gloss., Mis-gae, to miscarry; as, ‘A doot the thing 'ill mis-gae’.
†4. Of a firearm: To miss fire. Sc. Obs. [The usual word is misgie, ]
1586–7Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. IV. 139 The said Archibald..schote ane pistolett at him..; and seeing the same misgaa, he..presentit ane uthir pistollet at him. |