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▪ I. misty, a.1|ˈmɪstɪ|
Also 1 mistiᵹ, 4 myisti, misti, 4–5 mysti, 4–6 mysty, (6 -tie), 6–7 mistie, 4– misty.
[OE. mistiᵹ. f. mist (see mist n.1) + -iᵹ, -y. Cf. MLG., MDu. mistich.]
1. a. Covered with, clouded or obscured by, mist; accompanied or characterized by mist; consisting of mist.
Beowulf 162 Atol æᵹlæca ehtende wæs,..seomade and syrede, sinnihte heold mistiᵹe moras. a1327in Rel. Ant. I. 265 Eyr mysty whose syth [in a dream], Desturbaunce that bith. c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1060 For I have seyn, of a ful misty morwe Folwen ful ofte a mery someres day. c1430Lydg. Compl. Bl. Knt. 24 Whan that the misty vapour was agoon And clere and faire was the morowning. c1460Russell Bk. Nurture 911 in Babees Bk., Wheþur hit be feyre or foule, or mysty alle withe reyn. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. v. 10 And Iocond day Stands tipto on the mistie Mountaines tops. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 157 The night being dark and misty, and the moon giving little light. 1682Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 29 Misty and rimy morning. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. II. lii. 73 The misty rains..penetrated even the thick fur I was wrapped in. 1817Wolfe Burial Sir J. Moore ii, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light. 1858Masson Milton I. 720 The mistier north is forgotten, and he longs to make Florence his home. 1877Tennyson Harold iii. ii, Two young lovers in winter weather, None to guide them, Walk'd at night on the misty heather.
b. Clouded with fine particles resembling mist.
1833Tennyson Miller's Dau. 104 The very air about the door Made misty with the floating meal. 1885Manch. Exam. 4 May 5/3 The air is in fact quite misty with the fine impalpable dust.
c. Blurred or blinded as with a ‘mist’ of tears.
1859Tennyson Enid 1620 Not so misty were her meek blue eyes As not to see before them on the path. 1897Romance of Lady Barton II. 745, I never took my misty eyes off Trieste and our home.
d. Having the appearance of being shrouded in mist; indistinct in form or outline.
1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xii, The long-drawn prospect faded into misty light. 1818Shelley Rosal. & Helen 1198 A troop Of misty shapes did seem to sit Beside me. 1833N. Arnott Physics (ed. 5) II. 207 The light from adjoining points will mix at the edges, and will render the images misty and indistinct. 1898St. James's Gaz. 12 Jan. 12/1 Striped across..in a misty admixture of colouring.
2. fig. (often with literal phraseology retained).
a. ‘Dark’; obscure; unintelligible.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 181 Ac theologie hath tened me ten score tymes, The more I muse þere-Inne þe mistier it semeth. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 156 Þes wordis ben mysty and derke to þe puple. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. xii. v. in Ashm. (1652) 185 Thys mysty talkyng. 1494Fabyan Chron. 2 Ryght mysty storyes, doughtfull and vnclere. c1530Interl. Beauty & Gd. Prop. Women B iij b, The wordes whych thou spekyst in my presence Be so mysty, I perseyue not thy sentence. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 32 The Philosopher..is so hard of vtterance, and so mistie to bee conceiued, that [etc.]. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (Frowde) 236 Wherefore hath Heraclitus beene surnamed σκοτεινὸς, ‘a darke mysty clowded fellow’? 1624Gataker Transubst. 201 What not mysticall, but mistie riddles are these? 1755Johnson, Misty{ddd}2. Obscure; dark; not plain.
b. Resembling mist; obscuring, causing ignorance. Obs.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.) 2 To drawe a curtayne I dare not to presume, Nor hyde my matter with a misty smoke. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 150/1 Liuing in a time of palpable blindnesse and mistie superstition. a1631Donne Elegy on Mrs. Boulstred Poems (1654) 260 Blinde were those eys, saw not how bright did shine Through fleshes misty vaile those beams divine.
c. Not illuminated with the ‘light’ of reason, faith, truth, etc.
1616Hayward Sanct. Troub. Soul i. §3. 59 Mollifie my stony heart, illuminate my misty minde. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iii. iv, Shed in my mistie breast thy sparkling light. 1669Penn No Cross xx. §14 (1682) 511 Though times began to look somewhat mistier, and the purity and spirituality of Religion to be much declined. 1748Johnson Van. Hum. Wishes 144 Should Reason guide thee with her brightest ray, And pour on misty Doubt resistless day. 1811W. R. Spencer Poems 185 No beam of real fire My misty nature ever knows.
d. Of thought, speech: Having no definite ‘outline’ or character; vague, indistinct. Said also of writers with reference to style or exposition.
1816J. W. Croker in C. Papers 28 Nov. (1884), That misty pomp of language which you..think laudable. 1855Geo. Eliot Ess., Evang. Teaching (1884) 157 Their sense of truthfulness is misty and confused. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. iv. 58 A misty recollection hovering about it in our minds. 1890Gross Gild Merch. I. 94 The jurists had not yet shrouded the notion in misty complexity.
e. Of persons: Clouded in intellect.
1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 101 And over a skin of Italy's wine To get a little misty. 1848H. Rogers Ess. (1874) I. vi. 316 A little too misty readily to follow the argument, they got drowsy.
3. Comb.: parasynthetic, as misty-brained; adverbial, as misty-bright, misty-dark, misty-magnific, misty-soft adjs. misty-eyed adj., that brings tears to the eyes; having tears in one's eyes.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. i. 1 Through the misty-darke times of which Stories..I am lastly approached to these times of more light. 1649Heylin Hist. Indep. ii. 80 marg., For this you must take the faith of the mysty-brayned Pen-man, who had this..by Revelation. c1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 210 Paragraphs so vague and misty-magnific as this is. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. vii. iv. §6. 140 The rain-clouds in the dawn..not shining, but misty-soft. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. I. vii. 215 The air was misty-bright. 1886Pall Mall G. 5 Oct. 11/2 A misty-visioned political sect. 1956W. H. Whyte Organization Man (1957) iii. xiii. 156 He can grow as misty-eyed as the next man at the banquet honoring the Grand Old Man. 1974M. Cecil Heroines in Love vi. 151 Misty-eyed emotion and passionate declarations of love.
Hence ˈmistyish a., somewhat misty.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. iv. 202 Mistyish Heaven.
▪ II. † ˈmisty, a.2 Obs.
[app. the prec. adj. used by form-association for L. mysticus.]
Pertaining to, involving, or characteristic of spiritual mysteries; mystical, spiritual.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 286 And so þre mysty wittis ben tokened in þe same story. c1420Lydg. Commend. Our Lady 134 Thou misty arke, probatik piscyne. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. x. 203 O Sion, mysti douȝter. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 330 The mysty or spyrytuall body of cryste. 1570Levins Manip. 111/42 Mystie, mist, nebulosus. Mysty, mistery, mysticus. |