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misˈtune, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To tune wrongly; to put out of tune, make discordant; to perform (music) out of tune. Hence misˈtuned ppl. a., out of tune; † of persons, having no ear for music; misˈtuning vbl. n.
1504Cornishe in Skelton's Wks. (1568) z v b, If he [sc. the harper] play wrong, good tunes he doth lette Or by mystunyng the very trew armonye. Ibid. z vj, Any Instrument mystunyd shall hurt a trew song. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 75 Till all our rymis be rung, And our mistoinit sangis be sung. 1587[see mis-begin]. 1636B. Jonson Eng. Gram. vii, Where for want of one [sc. an accent], the word is in danger to be mis-tuned. a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. iv. 8 Wks. 1830 II. 333 When thou prayest alone, while thy heart is imbittered..it is as a mistuned instrument. c1750Armstrong Misc. (1770) II. 197 Some of the best mimicks are mistuned, and have not the least ear to harmony. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Diatonic, Ptolemy's tetrachords are so mis-tuned, that Salinas has charged him with having no ear. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) I. 220 A hoarse, mistuned voice. 1815Scott Ld. of Isles v. xxviii, Hymn mistuned and mutter'd prayer. 1883Knowledge 25 May 315/1 With the pianoforte tuned (or, one might say, mistuned) to equal temperament. 1914R. Stanley Text-bk. Wireless Telegr. 134 In the Telefunken transmitter the circuits are slightly mistuned, the aerial circuit having a free wave length about 2 per cent. higher than that of the primary circuit, and this mistuning is increased with the closeness of the coupling. 1970J. Earl Tuners & Amplifiers iii. 73 It is possible to mistune a stereo transmission and collect a terrific amount of sideband noise. Ibid., The quality of f.m. is significantly impaired by even slight mistuning.
transf. and fig.1744Armstrong Art Preserv. Health iv. 134 The Body, by long ails mistun'd. 1836Landor Imag. Conv., Pericles & Aspasia Wks. 1846 II. 429 Idly do our sages cry out against the poets for mistuning the heart. 1858Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. ii. (1864) 46 A scheme unstrung and mistuned. |