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amissadv.adj.n. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: on miss at miss n.1 3. Etymology: < on miss at miss n.1 3, with reduction of the first element (compare a prep.1, and o at on prep. Forms). The β. forms partly show reanalysis of the first element as of prep.Some instances of use as noun may arise from association with a miss ‘an error, a mistake, a misdeed’ (compare miss n.1 II.). A. adv.the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adverb] the world > space > direction > [adverb] > in the wrong direction c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) 1365 For nis a worlde þing so god Þat ne mai do sum un god, ȝif me hit wule turne amis [a1300 Jesus Oxf. a mys]. c1300 St. Brendan (Harl.) l. 173 in C. Horstmann (1887) 224 Ȝe weneþ þat hit beo an yle, ac ȝe þencheþ amis. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 164 (MED) Þei red him alle a mysse, þat conseil gaf þerto. ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. met. xi. l. 2845 False proposiciouns that goon amys fro the trouthe. 1480 (Caxton) ccxliiij. sig. t6v Our Archiers shet neuer arowe amys. a1500 (?c1450) 5 (MED) Ye sey amysse, for god hateth no creature. 1549 W. Baldwin i. sig. b.i Enforcyng all that would be of thy folde, Suche weedes to eat, as she hath sowen amis. 1626 T. May tr. Lucan ii. sig. C5 Phaeton amisse did guide The day. 1660 R. Read iii. 23 Anaxilaus teacheth you otherwise, and not amiss. 1701 J. Norris I. iv. 202 Where there is no judging at all, there can be no judging amiss. 1827 J. Keble I. xxxvii. 146 Your wisdom guides amiss, To seek on earth a Christian's bliss. 1868 390 They may suspect our errand, and direct us amiss. 1914 H. C. Cook 37 Words spelt amiss are blue-pencilled and written out correctly by the boy. 2018 (Nexis) 4 Sept. He is the one who spoke amiss about the reckoning of the MDC-Alliance's electoral court deadline, which turned out to be at a tangent with the correct position. society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adverb] society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > [adverb] the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adverb] > imprudently c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) l. 1434 (MED) An ȝunling not hwat swuch þing is: His ȝunge blod hit draȝeþ amis. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 1258 Mi neueu..a lute dude amis. c1390 in C. Brown (1924) 133 A-mende þat þou hast don amis [a1500 Adv. of mysse]. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 269 A woman dothe amys To loue hym that vnknowe ys. 1550 R. Crowley sig. Ciiv For doubtlesse those goodes are gotten amisse. 1599 J. Rainolds 18 When Critobulus kissed the sonne of Alcibiades..Socrates saide he had done amisse and very dangerously. 1611 Luke xxiii. 41 We receiue the due reward of our deeds, but this man hath done nothing amisse . View more context for this quotation 1692 R. L'Estrange ccclxvii. 338 A Man that Speaks or does an Ill thing, with a good Intention, or without Understanding that he does or says Amiss. 1764 J. Wesley 10 Sept. (1827) III. 189 Only one man, a common disturber, behaved amiss. 1833 H. Martineau vi. 123 Apt to see wrong, and speak amiss, and do the very reverse of what he ought to do. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer I. ii. 44 And soon will punish those Who act amiss. 1995 G. Cloke 23 These [sc. canons] are more eloquent about what the recipients were doing amiss. 2008 (Nexis) 15 July We..act shocked as they commit crimes and generally act amiss. the world > action or operation > manner of action > [adverb] > in specific manner > in faulty manner the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adverb] > in a way that falls short c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. i. l. 151 Þe same Mesure þat ȝe Meten, A-mis oþer elles. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 144 By God quod he I synge nat amys. 1530 J. Palsgrave 726/1 This bell soundeth a mys. 1579 T. F. i. i. sig. B.iiv I am sure I cannot be lodged amisse in this house. 1654 T. Gataker 49 The Doctor..had miscarried in his suit by joining issu amiss. 1764 J. Boswell Let. 28 July in (1953) I. 40 He was a good genteel young fellow, and spoke English not amiss. 1854 Jan. 591 The law undertook to relieve him from one instance of his proper duty, and did it amiss. 1906 June 157 Perchance this tragedy from angry gods was sent Because of rites they had performed amiss? 2018 S. Fletcher iii. 11 I tried to shove my shoulders backward between the bars, but I was doing it amiss; I was stuck. 4. the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adverb] > unfavourably the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adverb] > inauspiciously a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) (1891) l. 2582 My dreme is turned all amys..it is al shent. 1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in (1884) 120 I, quoth Iack a napes, by these ten bones, Nothinge happens amiss to a præparid minde. 1597 G. Markham tr. G. Pétau de Maulette clxviii. f. 29 It is Impossible their chaunce should runne amisse. 1650 R. Baxter (1654) iii. 13 If anything fell out amiss. 1786 H. L. Piozzi 245 He..chatted gaily..as if nothing had happened amiss. 1833 tr. A. Murat vi. 149 So far, if the progress we have in every way made be considered, it must be admitted that our attempt has not turned out amiss. 1876 17 217/1 ‘I feel as if something had come amiss to Rachel.’ ‘Nothing can come amiss to her..for God is her refuge and strength.’ 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien iii. i. 17 All that I have done today has gone amiss. 2003 J. Fenton 58 Officer: I should feel responsible If anything should come amiss. Martin: You think I might kill myself? 1553 J. Brooks sig. B.vii [They] wil take on them..the iudgement & decision of any matier in controuersie: none commeth amisse to them. 1646 J. Evelyn (1857) I. 252 Sometimes we shot at fowls and other birds: nothing came amiss. 1736 J. Addison tr. Petronius 87 He was a great Punker, and nothing that wore a Cap came amiss to him. 1775 S. Ward VII. 130 Though corn is the favourite food of this bird, there is hardly any thing that comes amiss to it. 1804 T. Truxton Let. 21 July in Oct. 311/1 They had been most of the night on the water, and a dish of good coffee would not come amiss. 1856 C. Dickens (1857) ii. ix. 401 About mid-day when a glass of sherry and a humble sandwich..might not come amiss. 1892 Nov. 324 Reviewing alone came amiss to Irving, for, says his nephew, ‘he wished to be just and could not bear to be severe’. 1960 8 Dec. 8/2 A towel shower for the mission would not go amiss. 2009 A. McCall Smith xcix. 349 I think that this occasion will be one where ties are not worn... And yet a bit of colour would not go amiss. B. adj. Used predicatively. 1. Not as it should be; not in accordance with what is considered morally correct, appropriate, etc.; less good (in various senses) than might be expected or wished for; not quite right. the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective] the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adjective] > amiss, out of order c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) l. 3026 (MED) To londone he wende uor to amende þat þer was amys. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham (1902) 127 (MED) Þou hast y-ryȝt þat was amys, Ywonne þat was y-lore. 1447 O. Bokenham (Arun.) (1938) l. 1419 (MED) Best were for me to leue makynge Of englysh, & suche as ys amys To reformyn in my lyuynge. ?a1475 (1922) 367 (MED) I am aferd there wyll be sum thyng a-mys. 1524 tr. J. de Bourbon sig. E.ivv Excusynge me yf in thy translacyon Ought be amysse in language or in werke. a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1593) ii. sig. V3v Saying still the world was amisse. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. iii. 96 Don. What is amisse? Macb. You are, and doe not know't. View more context for this quotation 1689 R. Baxter liii. 196 What is amiss in the Church-Government that needeth an amending alteration, I have so often told you, that I will not repeat it. 1753 S. Richardson IV. ii. 19 I hear something very much amiss of this man. 1876 12 Feb. 156/2 The driver's whistle..would soon show to the man in the signal-box what was amiss. 1902 A. Bennett iii. 61 What's amiss with this bank is that it wants pullin' down. 2002 10 Feb. iii. 4/2 Why did so few..employees come forward to report that something was amiss? the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [adjective] society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adjective] > morally weak > liable to sin or err a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xxxviii. 1298 Þanne þe dome of smellyng is amys or al lost. 1425 (a1400) (Lansd.) (1933) 99 Not amending þaym þat be amisse. 1582 T. Watson lxxii. sig. I4v When Neptune sawe the match was not amisse, Hee prayde the Gods..With him to celebrate the Nuptiall feast. 1603 T. Lodge vii. sig. E4 The iuice of Sorrell likewise and sowre Grapes are allowed, and Oranges, and Limons with Sugar are not amisse. 1704 tr. G. F. Gemelli Careri Voy. round World iii. viii. in A. Churchill & J. Churchill IV. 568/2 I kill'd a great many of those Birds they call Cotorreras... They are not amiss to eat. 1799 E. Meeke III. viii. 176 ‘She struck me as being very handsome,’ rejoined Clement; ‘am I a judge of beauty?’ ‘She is not amiss,’ was the reply. 1864 T. Trollope III. xliii. 164 She is noways like the same girl she used to be. Body or mind, be it which it may, or both, she is amiss, and far amiss somehow. 1871 G. H. Napheys iii. ii. 625 The taste is nearly always amiss in illness. 1902 P. Devinne (1971) 134 I..regarded myself contentedly in the mirror, and decided that I was not at all amiss. 1913 Jan. 116/1 Allarmeau's heart at that period was a piteous wounded thing... Allarmeau's heart was amiss, yes, but not his art. 2000 ‘E. Layton’ xxi. 314 ‘What is amiss?’ Perkins asked... ‘I am amiss, or was,’ Wycoff said... ‘And well they all know it. I've spent too many days..sipping weak tea and kissing too many wrinkled cheeks.’ tr. Palladius (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 640 Yf the tre be yonge, The clouen stook to graffe is not amys. And wrie hem fest, lest wynd therynto yonge. c1475 (Folger) (1969) l. 403 All th[y]nge hat dew tymes Prayer, fastynge, labour, all thes. Wan tyme ys not kept, þat dede ys amys. 1575 G. Turberville 276 It shall not bee amysse, to clynte, or nayle them faste togyther. 1690 J. Locke ii. iii. 47 The better to conceive the Ideas, we receive from Sensation, it may not be amiss for us to consider them. 1766 R. Brookes (new ed.) 92 You may use two Hooks at a Line at a Time, and two Rods is not amiss. 1778 S. Johnson 21 Nov. (1992) III. 144 It is good to speak dubiously about futurity. It is likewise not amiss to hope. 1856 Ld. Tennyson Maud (rev. ed.) xix. viii, in (new ed.) 69 Kind to Maud? That were not amiss. 1905 160/2 I know local treatment is the essential treatment, but would it be amiss to suggest that there is possibly a constitutional cause? 1931 H. S. Williams 83 It is not amiss to recall that the antennae or feelers of insects..have never been clearly accounted for by the naturalist. 2006 D. Lewin xv. 286 In light of the preceding discussion, it would not be amiss to plunge right into the all-important piano introduction in this case. the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [adjective] the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective] 1582 J. Yates f. 62v Her Christian name begins with F... I trowe, Her surname. S. orels I am amisse. a1670 J. Hacket (1693) ii. 11 I perceive..that I was not much amiss, when I took you to be in the same Case that Evathlus was to Protagoras. 1889 A. Conan Doyle xx. 194 ‘He is surely mad.’ ‘Perhaps you are not far amiss.’ 1941 7 Jan. (Sports section) 9/1 We were slightly amiss in our report... We confused Rogers Hall with the Belvidere school. 2008 May 141/2 At only 27 years old, this young pianist has a very bright future. I don't believe that I am amiss in comparing her to a young Argerich. †C. n.the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] 1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 75 in Good lawes are made, to punish their amisse. 1604 W. Shakespeare iv. v. 18 Each toy seemes prologue to some great amisse . View more context for this quotation 1643 8 We will..reforme all our disorders, and amend all our amisses. 1725 III. iii. 30 The Nobles of England their Prince's Amiss, By Parliament soon did rebate. 1826 J. Porter & A. M. Porter II. 186 It little became erring humanity to be extreme in judging the amiss of any fellow creature. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. III. 303 Nor heed The spy who saith to thee ‘'Tis an amiss!’ Phrases P1. to take amiss. the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > misunderstand [phrase] a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif (1871) III. 343 (MED) Þis dreem takun amys turneþ up so doun þe Chirche. c1535 i. sig. A.ivv They that suche a secte sewys I trowe they taken hem amysse. 1622 W. Ames iii. 44 If the Defendant can there finde one signification of a hundred, which teacheth any strange doctrine not warranted by the Scriptures, I haue taken my numbers amisse. a1690 S. Jeake (1701) iv. iii. vii. 578 It is vulgarly taken amiss, when half the yearly Interest is taken for the half Year, and the Quarter thereof for a Quarter of a year. 1839 G. P. R. James I. xiii. 317 Without giving me an opportunity of explaining to you things which you have misinterpreted and taken amiss. 1899 N. Garstin 171 ‘What meanest thou?’ said he... ‘Nay,’ answered the prince gently; ‘wherefore wilt thou take my meaning amiss?’ 1998 B. Mazlish iv. 120 King Lear misreads his daughters, taking deception for truth..and taking his daughter Cordelia's words amiss. the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > be indignant at or resent [verb (transitive)] 1530 J. Palsgrave 747/1 I take a thyng a mysse, je mesprens. 1595 N. Breton sig. D4v Wee must not take it amisse, if we be left vnto the mercie of Gods holie spirit. 1638 W. Barwick tr. V. D'Audiguier 22 She told him, that her friends took it amisse, that one of his coate should so frequent her company. 1688 15 They must not take it amiss, if as they were misrepresenters then, they are esteem'd Misrepresenters still. 1780 S. Johnson 30 May (1992) III. 263 You..therefore cannot take it amiss that I have never written. 1812 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein I. viii. 119 A Hottentot..takes it extremely amiss if he is addressed by the words Pay or Jonge, as the slaves are. 1866 A. Trollope I. iii. 59 You will not take it amiss if I take a cousin's privilege. 1938 G. W. Howgate 312 Santayana's dismissal of all scholarly apparatus, citations, references, etc., was taken amiss by some critics. 1995 K. Ishiguro ii. 25 If it's impossible, then please just say so. I won't take it amiss. the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > be indignant at or resent [verb (transitive)] 1533 J. Heywood sig. B.iii Som percase wyll thynke amysse of me. 1576 R. Robinson tr. F. Patrizi vi. f. 60 Neyther think they it amisse, for ye son to beare office, when they call to mynd that all his ancestours haue executed ye same offyce aforetime. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac II. 109 Why should you thinke it amisse, that..I should counsaile him to refresh himselfe with a more easie and lesse violent kinde of writing? 1711 J. Addison 30 Nov. That Narrowness of Temper which inclines us to think amiss of those who differ from our selves. 1793 E. D. Clarke v. 288 Having descended a mile or two, I did not think it amiss to enquire about an exhausted mine that I saw at a distance. 1838 J. F. Cooper II. x. 145 The Lord forgive me..for thinking amiss of the two dear old people. 1919 A. Safroni-Middleton x. 197 She didn't seem to take the sailors' advances as though she thought them amiss. 1992 J. McBride (2011) iv. 81 Bob Sticht..would not think amiss of Capra being an immigrant. 2001 J. Marillier (2002) iii. 84 Perhaps..they would not think it amiss if I retired early to sleep. Compounds1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in ii. f. ccci/1 Openly haste confessed thyne amysse goynge, and nowe cryest after mercy. 1614 T. Godwin iv. i. 174 Lipsius censureth him for the amisse-explanation of the last member. 1625 T. Godwin vi. v. 294 The third [ceremony]..was..a baptization for the dead,..proper to some amisseled Christians. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi 155 The vanitie of her amisse-shed teares. 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