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mishandle, v.|mɪsˈhænd(ə)l|
[mis-1 1. Cf. G. misshandeln, Du. mishandelen.]
trans. To handle or treat badly or improperly; to handle roughly or rudely; to maltreat, ill-treat.
[1390: cf. mishandling vbl. n.] 1530Palsgr. 637/2 It is nat well done to myshandell hym thus as you do. Ibid. 689/1, I restore a mater, or processe that was mysse handled. 1533More Apol. xxxv. Wks. 899/2 To be so wrongefullye myssehandeled and punyshed, for onelye speakynge agaynste mysseorder and abusions. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 257 b, There be some that are so beastly brutish that will mishandle the wordes and deedes of others, be they never so well spoken. 1616Bacon Tract Commendams Wks. 1827 VII. 319 The proceedings wherein had either been mis-reported or mis-handled. 1823Scott Quentin D. xxi, It is a shame to see how they have mishandled the old man. 1828Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 93 He mishandled good subjects with great success. 1904S. Weyman Abb. Vlaye vii, Solomon is old, and they may mishandle him. |