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mistreat, v.|mɪsˈtriːt|
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To treat badly or wrongly; to ill-treat. Also misˈtreated ppl. a., ill-treated; mis-ˈtreating vbl. n., ill-treatment, abuse.
1453Rolls of Parlt. V. 270/2 To th' endaungeryng, trouble and mistretyng of all Ladies. c1465Eng. Chron. (Camden 1856) 22 That thay sholde not mystrete the said Oweyne, lest he made the Walshmen arise. 1496Dives & Pauper (W. de W.) viii. xiii. 339/2 Robberye is called al maner mystreatynge of an other mannes good ayenst his wyll. 1799Southey Nondescripts iv, The Pig, A poor, mistreated, democratic beast. 1862Lytton Str. Story I. xii. 77, I had seen many more patients die from being mistreated for consumption than from consumption itself. 1868J. H. Newman Verses Var. Occas. 11 Where iron rule, stern precedent, Mistreat the graceful day. 1886A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889) 42 She..ran counter to what Russians regarded as their traditional, though long mistreated régime. |