| 释义 |
misˈgotten, pa. pple. and ppl. a.
Also 5 mysgettyne.
[mis-1 2.]
1. Wrongly acquired or obtained; ill-gotten.
c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 664 As yt mysgoten was, mys was despendid. a1425Cast. Persev. 2628 in Macro Plays 155 Mys-gotyn good þee schal schende. 1550Crowley Epigr. 703 The goodis mysgoten, that men do ther at wynne. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. i. 18 Leave..that misgotten weft To him that hath it better justifyde. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iv. ix. (1654) 369 Secretly mis-gotten dispensations. 1903W. S. Jackson Nine Points of Law vi. 171 Here was he with a trunk-load of misgotten gold wandering haphazard..over two countries.
2. = misbegotten.
c1425Seven Sag. (P.) 1075 He saw wyl with hys eye..That the childe was mys-gettyne. 1652Benlowes Theoph. ii. xxxi. 27 Misgotten Brat! 1904Blackw. Mag. July 89/1 Cornwallis sahib..had beaten Tippu, and those misgotten Mysore log [= men]. |