| 释义 |
misˈpraise, v. Now rare.
[mis-1 1, 7.]
1. trans. To dispraise, blame.
a1300Cursor M. 25842 Mai naman mis-prais þe thing þe quilk es broght to god ending. 1340Ayenb. 136 He prayzeþ more þe oþre þe more he him-zelue misprayseþ. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 7 Your Chyldren many yeris herafter shal be myspreysed and blamed therfore. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 196 Thus speaking, ye mispraise the holy rites Of matrimonial Hera and of Jove.
2. To praise amiss. Also absol.
a1631Donne Serm. (1640) ix. 89 They, whom I have so mispraised, are the worse in the sight of God, for my overpraising. 1888F. T. Palgrave in 19th Cent. Sept. 341 The natural frailty to mispraise and overpraise.
3. ? Error for: misprize v.1
1550Sheph. Kal. vii. D vij, When any maketh a vow and misprayseth to doo it. |