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▪ I. † misˈtime, n. Obs.
[f. next.]
Mishap.
a1300Cursor M. 27768 In mining of his mistime He wites wend [read werd] and waris his time. 13..Ibid. 20050 (Gött.) Womman sal noght peris of barn, Ne nane wid mistime [Cott. mischiue] be forfarn.
▪ II. mistime, v.|mɪsˈtaɪm|
[OE. mistímian: see mis-1 1 and time v.]
†1. intr.
a. Of the event: To happen amiss. Const. dat.b. Of the person: To come to grief, suffer misfortune. Obs.
c1000tr. Basil's Admon. v. (1849) 44 ᵹif him hwæt mis⁓timaþ besarᵹa his unrotnysse. a1225Ancr. R. 200 Lauhwen oðer gabben, ȝif him mis-biueolle [MS. T. mis-times]. 1401Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 58 Litil wondir thowȝ lordis myssetyme, that han suche confusours. c1420in Lay Folks Mass Bk. 84/38 Lat neuer my saul on domesday mystime.
2. Not to time properly:
a. to do or perform at a wrong time; to say or do (something) out of season;
b. to miscalculate or mis-state the time of. Also absol.
1390Gower Conf. I. 49, I prai the let me noght mistime Mi schrifte. Ibid. III. 281 So hath such love his lust mis⁓timed. a1500in Grose, etc. Antiq. Rep. (1809) IV. 405 The sownde of a trew songe makithe trew concorde, But subtill prickynge mystymthe and causith grete discorde. a1661Fuller Worthies, Monmouthshire (1662) 53 If he is guilty in Mis-timing of actions, he is not the onely Historian without company in that particular. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. ii. ii. iii, As Grotius has mis-timed these Visions, so his Interpretations are accordingly absurd. 1673Shaftesbury Parl. Sp. in Coll. Poems 239 He desires you not to mistime it: but that it may have only the second place. 1706Reflex. upon Ridicule 307 Actions mistim'd lose their value. 1752Chesterfield Lett. III. cclxxv. 259 [He] mis-times, mis⁓places, runs precipitately..at the mark. 1858Doran Court Fools 143 Rowley's chronicle drama abounds in anachronisms. The probable facts..are only mistimed. 1896Daily News 14 July 4/6 [He] mis-timed a ball..and was out leg before wicket. |