meschantadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈmɛʃənt/,

/ˈmɪʃənt/,

/məˈʃant/, U.S.

/ˈmɛʃənt/,

/məˈʃɑn(t)/, Scottish English

/ˈmɪʃən(t)/,

/məˈʃant/

Forms: late Middle English meschaunt, late Middle English myschant, late Middle English myschaunte, 1500s mechaunt, 1500s meschante, 1600s meschant; Scottish pre-1700 mechant, pre-1700 mechient, pre-1700 meshant, pre-1700 metient, pre-1700 miscent, pre-1700 mischand, pre-1700 mischant, pre-1700 mischaunt, pre-1700 mischeand, pre-1700 mischent, pre-1700 mischent, pre-1700 mishant, pre-1700 myschante, pre-1700 myscheant, pre-1700 1900s– meschant.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French mescheant, meschant, mescheoir.

Etymology: < Middle French mescheant (late 12th cent. in Old French as adjective in sense A. 2), meschant (late 14th cent. in Old French as adjective in senses A. 1 (the predominant sense from the end of the 15th cent.) and A. 2, and as noun in sense ‘wrongdoer’; French méchant ), present participle of mescheoir (1155) to be unlucky < mes- mis- prefix² + Old French cheoir to fall (see escheat n.). Compare méchant adj.Frequent in Caxton; from the 16th cent. mainly Scots. For a discussion of the sense development in French see Französisches Etymol. Wörterbuch s.v. cadere.

Now Scottish and archaic.

†A. adj.

1. Bad, wicked, base. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adjective]

woughc888

litherc893

frakeda900

sinnyc950

unrighteouseOE

baleOE

manOE

unfeleOE

ungoodc1000

unwrasta1122

illc1175

nithec1175

wickc1175

hinderfulc1200

quedec1275

wickedc1275

wondlichc1275

unkindc1325

badc1330

divers1340

wrakefula1350

felonousc1374

flagitiousc1384

lewdc1386

noughta1387

ungoodly1390

unquertc1390

diverse1393

felona1400

imperfectc1400

unfairc1400

unfinec1400

unblesseda1425

meschant?c1450

naughtyc1460

feculent1471

sinister1474

noughty?1490

ill-deedya1500

pernicious?1533

scelerous1534

naught1536

goodlyc1560

nefarious1567

iron1574

felly1583

paganish1587

improbate1596

malefactious1607

villain1607

infand1608

scelestious1609

illful1613

scelestic1628

inimicitious1641

infandous1645

iniquous1655

improbous1657

malefactory1667

perta1704

iniquitous1726

unracy1782

unredeemed1799

demoralized1800

fetid1805

scarlet1820

gammy1832

nefast1849

disvaluable1942

badass1955

bad-assed1962

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective]

litherc893

unledeeOE

evil971

missOE

murkOE

unrighteousOE

unseelyOE

un-i-seliOE

unselec1050

wickc1175

foul-itowenc1225

unwrast?c1225

un-i-felec1275

wickedc1275

wrakefula1350

felonousc1374

unquertc1390

unperfect1395

felona1400

wanc1440

meschant?c1450

sinnyc1475

unselc1480

poison?1527

pernicious?1533

scelerous1534

viperous?1548

improbate1596

scelestious1609

scelestic1628

spider-like1655

dark-hearted1656

demonic1796

nineteda1798

sinful1863

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 126 (MED) It is a myschaunt thinge for any gentill woman other to striue or to chide in ani manere.

c1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xx. 146 All thay yat dois..With mischant mynde maling Aganis the treuth.

1629 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1901) 2nd Ser. III. 4 The..purging of the land frome suche a mischaunt persoun.

1641 R. Baillie Postscript for Lysimachus Nicanor in Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις (ed. 3) 18 The mischant wrong your party did to us in this matter.

a1676 H. Guthry Mem. (1702) 6 This Meschant Business..gave the Ministers Affairs such a Blow, that..they were never able to make it up again.

2. Miserable, wretched, unfortunate. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > miserable or wretched

un-i-selieOE

drearyOE

unseelyOE

wretcha1122

usellc1175

unselea1200

wretcheda1200

misease?c1225

un-i-sele?c1250

wanlichec1275

miseasyc1300

wrackfulc1311

unblessed1340

wretchfula1382

wretchedful1382

caitiff1393

loddera1400

unhappena1400

pilledc1400

miserable?c1422

vengeablec1430

unhappyc1440

meschant?1473

miserousc1475

unselc1480

miser1542

forlorn1582

villainous1582

skybala1585

unblestful1608

despicable1635

haveless1868

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adjective]

unledeeOE

sorryOE

evila1131

usellc1175

wanlichec1275

bad1276

sorry1372

meana1375

caitiff1393

loddera1400

woefula1400

foulc1400

wretched1450

meschant?1473

unselc1480

peevisha1522

miser1542

scurvy?1577

forlorn1582

villainous1582

measled1596

lamented1611

thrallfula1618

despicable1635

deplorable1642

so-and-so1656

poorish1657

squalida1660

lamentable1676

mesquina1706

shan1714

execrable1738

quisby1807

hole in the wall1822

measly1847

bum1878

shag-bag1888

snidey1890

pathetic1900

the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [adjective]

armlyeOE

un-i-selieOE

unledeeOE

unseelyOE

armOE

wretcha1122

unselea1200

wretcheda1200

wretchlyc1200

misease?c1225

wanlichec1275

miseasyc1300

wansomea1325

simplec1330

wretchfula1382

wretchedful1382

caitiff1393

loddera1400

desolate14..

disconsolatea1425

meschant?1473

miserousc1475

miser1542

unvisited1548

tribulate1575

happiless1582

uncomforted1583

blisslessa1586

uncomfortless1598

miserablea1616

thrallfula1618

calamitous1668

tribulated1682

donsie?1719

unsolaced1796

mis1939

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 23^v Than he retorned poure and myschant vnto his fader Tytan.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 318/2 Meschante myserable, meschant.

?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. Aj^v That they must ende in mechaunt indygence.

1624 in W. Fraser Scotts of Buccleuch (1878) II. 349 I perceaue him moved with the sense of that mishant man's miserie.

B. n.

A wretch, a villain; an evildoer.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > wretch > [noun]

argha1275

mixa1300

caitiffc1325

crachouna1400

crathona1400

wretcheda1425

fouling?a1475

meschant1490

miscredent?a1500

ketterela1572

miscreant1590

scroyle1602

frummer1659

fustya1732

ramscallion1734

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person > villain

geringc1290

thief1297

villain1303

gerardc1350

meschant1490

miscredent?a1500

miscreant1590

villainist1596

viliaco1600

villagio1820

badman1855

meanie1932

baddie1934

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 125 Thenne he sayd to his children ‘Myschaunt, your ledernes and slouth hath overcomen you.’

1570 in J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) v. 238 They..had unworthily cut off his Uncle and Regent, by suborning a mischant to kill him treacherously.

a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) 125 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) 140 Mischevous mischant.

1664 S. Pepys Diary 6 Sept. (1971) V. 264 Cromwell, notwithstanding the Meschants in his time (which were the Cavaliers)..he did [etc.].

1913 H. P. Cameron tr. Thomas à Kempis Of Imitation of Christ iii. iv. 86 The girns an' the venim o' the meschant.

Derivatives

ˈmeschantness n. rare

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun]

woughc888

naughteOE

manOE

evilness1000

fakenOE

witherfulnessc1200

lithera1225

villainy?c1225

lithernessa1240

unwrastshipa1250

felonyc1290

shrewheadc1290

litherhead1297

illa1300

wicknessa1300

follyc1300

iniquity13..

shrewdom13..

wickhedec1305

shrewdheadc1315

shrewdnessc1315

unwrastnessc1315

wickednessa1340

malicea1382

unequityc1384

lewdnessa1387

mischiefa1387

wickedleka1400

wickedredea1400

badnessc1400

shrewdshipc1400

shrewnessc1425

ungoodlihead1430

wickdomc1440

rudenessc1451

mauvasty1474

unkindliness1488

noughtinessa1500

perversenessa1500

illnessc1500

filthiness?1504

noisomeness1506

naughtiness?1529

noughtihoodc1540

inexcellence1590

improbity1593

flagition1598

meschancy1609

scelerateness1613

pravity1620

meschantnessa1630

flagitiousness1692

flagitiosity1727

nefariousness1727

bale-fire1855

ill-conditionedness1866

iniquitousness1870

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun]

woughc888

manOE

evilness1000

evilc1040

un-i-thora1200

witherfulnessc1200

mixshipc1225

quedeship?c1225

lithernessa1240

unwrastshipa1250

felonyc1290

shrewheadc1290

litherhead1297

wickedheada1300

wicknessa1300

follyc1300

shrewdom13..

wickhedec1305

shrewdheadc1315

shrewdnessc1315

unwrastnessc1315

wickc1330

wickednessa1340

quedehead1340

quedeness1340

lewdnessa1387

felona1400

wickedleka1400

wickedredea1400

badnessc1400

shrewdshipc1400

shrewnessc1425

wickdomc1440

noughtinessa1500

naughtiness?1529

sinfulness1530

noughtihoodc1540

meschancy1609

scelerateness1613

meschantnessa1630

nefariousness1727

devilness1853

a1630 D. Hume Hist. Houses Douglas & Angus (1644) 153 Which I confesse is so profound and deep a folly, and mischantnesse, that I can by no means sound it.

1912 D. McKie Fables frae French 14 A pawky Paddock, wi' a Rat acquent, Ance on a time was on mischantness bent.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	meschant
释义	meschantadj.n. Brit. /ˈmɛʃənt/, /ˈmɪʃənt/, /məˈʃant/, U.S. /ˈmɛʃənt/, /məˈʃɑn(t)/, Scottish English /ˈmɪʃən(t)/, /məˈʃant/ Forms: late Middle English meschaunt, late Middle English myschant, late Middle English myschaunte, 1500s mechaunt, 1500s meschante, 1600s meschant; Scottish pre-1700 mechant, pre-1700 mechient, pre-1700 meshant, pre-1700 metient, pre-1700 miscent, pre-1700 mischand, pre-1700 mischant, pre-1700 mischaunt, pre-1700 mischeand, pre-1700 mischent, pre-1700 mischent, pre-1700 mishant, pre-1700 myschante, pre-1700 myscheant, pre-1700 1900s– meschant. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French mescheant, meschant, mescheoir. Etymology: < Middle French mescheant (late 12th cent. in Old French as adjective in sense A. 2), meschant (late 14th cent. in Old French as adjective in senses A. 1 (the predominant sense from the end of the 15th cent.) and A. 2, and as noun in sense ‘wrongdoer’; French méchant ), present participle of mescheoir (1155) to be unlucky < mes- mis- prefix² + Old French cheoir to fall (see escheat n.). Compare méchant adj.Frequent in Caxton; from the 16th cent. mainly Scots. For a discussion of the sense development in French see Französisches Etymol. Wörterbuch s.v. cadere. Now Scottish and archaic. †A. adj. 1. Bad, wicked, base. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adjective] woughc888 litherc893 frakeda900 sinnyc950 unrighteouseOE baleOE manOE unfeleOE ungoodc1000 unwrasta1122 illc1175 nithec1175 wickc1175 hinderfulc1200 quedec1275 wickedc1275 wondlichc1275 unkindc1325 badc1330 divers1340 wrakefula1350 felonousc1374 flagitiousc1384 lewdc1386 noughta1387 ungoodly1390 unquertc1390 diverse1393 felona1400 imperfectc1400 unfairc1400 unfinec1400 unblesseda1425 meschant?c1450 naughtyc1460 feculent1471 sinister1474 noughty?1490 ill-deedya1500 pernicious?1533 scelerous1534 naught1536 goodlyc1560 nefarious1567 iron1574 felly1583 paganish1587 improbate1596 malefactious1607 villain1607 infand1608 scelestious1609 illful1613 scelestic1628 inimicitious1641 infandous1645 iniquous1655 improbous1657 malefactory1667 perta1704 iniquitous1726 unracy1782 unredeemed1799 demoralized1800 fetid1805 scarlet1820 gammy1832 nefast1849 disvaluable1942 badass1955 bad-assed1962 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective] litherc893 unledeeOE evil971 missOE murkOE unrighteousOE unseelyOE un-i-seliOE unselec1050 wickc1175 foul-itowenc1225 unwrast?c1225 un-i-felec1275 wickedc1275 wrakefula1350 felonousc1374 unquertc1390 unperfect1395 felona1400 wanc1440 meschant?c1450 sinnyc1475 unselc1480 poison?1527 pernicious?1533 scelerous1534 viperous?1548 improbate1596 scelestious1609 scelestic1628 spider-like1655 dark-hearted1656 demonic1796 nineteda1798 sinful1863 ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 126 (MED) It is a myschaunt thinge for any gentill woman other to striue or to chide in ani manere. c1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xx. 146 All thay yat dois..With mischant mynde maling Aganis the treuth. 1629 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1901) 2nd Ser. III. 4 The..purging of the land frome suche a mischaunt persoun. 1641 R. Baillie Postscript for Lysimachus Nicanor in Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις (ed. 3) 18 The mischant wrong your party did to us in this matter. a1676 H. Guthry Mem. (1702) 6 This Meschant Business..gave the Ministers Affairs such a Blow, that..they were never able to make it up again. 2. Miserable, wretched, unfortunate. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > miserable or wretched un-i-selieOE drearyOE unseelyOE wretcha1122 usellc1175 unselea1200 wretcheda1200 misease?c1225 un-i-sele?c1250 wanlichec1275 miseasyc1300 wrackfulc1311 unblessed1340 wretchfula1382 wretchedful1382 caitiff1393 loddera1400 unhappena1400 pilledc1400 miserable?c1422 vengeablec1430 unhappyc1440 meschant?1473 miserousc1475 unselc1480 miser1542 forlorn1582 villainous1582 skybala1585 unblestful1608 despicable1635 haveless1868 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adjective] unledeeOE sorryOE evila1131 usellc1175 wanlichec1275 bad1276 sorry1372 meana1375 caitiff1393 loddera1400 woefula1400 foulc1400 wretched1450 meschant?1473 unselc1480 peevisha1522 miser1542 scurvy?1577 forlorn1582 villainous1582 measled1596 lamented1611 thrallfula1618 despicable1635 deplorable1642 so-and-so1656 poorish1657 squalida1660 lamentable1676 mesquina1706 shan1714 execrable1738 quisby1807 hole in the wall1822 measly1847 bum1878 shag-bag1888 snidey1890 pathetic1900 the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [adjective] armlyeOE un-i-selieOE unledeeOE unseelyOE armOE wretcha1122 unselea1200 wretcheda1200 wretchlyc1200 misease?c1225 wanlichec1275 miseasyc1300 wansomea1325 simplec1330 wretchfula1382 wretchedful1382 caitiff1393 loddera1400 desolate14.. disconsolatea1425 meschant?1473 miserousc1475 miser1542 unvisited1548 tribulate1575 happiless1582 uncomforted1583 blisslessa1586 uncomfortless1598 miserablea1616 thrallfula1618 calamitous1668 tribulated1682 donsie?1719 unsolaced1796 mis1939 ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 23^v Than he retorned poure and myschant vnto his fader Tytan. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 318/2 Meschante myserable, meschant. ?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. Aj^v That they must ende in mechaunt indygence. 1624 in W. Fraser Scotts of Buccleuch (1878) II. 349 I perceaue him moved with the sense of that mishant man's miserie. B. n. A wretch, a villain; an evildoer. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > wretch > [noun] argha1275 mixa1300 caitiffc1325 crachouna1400 crathona1400 wretcheda1425 fouling?a1475 meschant1490 miscredent?a1500 ketterela1572 miscreant1590 scroyle1602 frummer1659 fustya1732 ramscallion1734 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person > villain geringc1290 thief1297 villain1303 gerardc1350 meschant1490 miscredent?a1500 miscreant1590 villainist1596 viliaco1600 villagio1820 badman1855 meanie1932 baddie1934 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 125 Thenne he sayd to his children ‘Myschaunt, your ledernes and slouth hath overcomen you.’ 1570 in J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) v. 238 They..had unworthily cut off his Uncle and Regent, by suborning a mischant to kill him treacherously. a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) 125 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) 140 Mischevous mischant. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 6 Sept. (1971) V. 264 Cromwell, notwithstanding the Meschants in his time (which were the Cavaliers)..he did [etc.]. 1913 H. P. Cameron tr. Thomas à Kempis Of Imitation of Christ iii. iv. 86 The girns an' the venim o' the meschant. Derivatives ˈmeschantness n. rare ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun] woughc888 naughteOE manOE evilness1000 fakenOE witherfulnessc1200 lithera1225 villainy?c1225 lithernessa1240 unwrastshipa1250 felonyc1290 shrewheadc1290 litherhead1297 illa1300 wicknessa1300 follyc1300 iniquity13.. shrewdom13.. wickhedec1305 shrewdheadc1315 shrewdnessc1315 unwrastnessc1315 wickednessa1340 malicea1382 unequityc1384 lewdnessa1387 mischiefa1387 wickedleka1400 wickedredea1400 badnessc1400 shrewdshipc1400 shrewnessc1425 ungoodlihead1430 wickdomc1440 rudenessc1451 mauvasty1474 unkindliness1488 noughtinessa1500 perversenessa1500 illnessc1500 filthiness?1504 noisomeness1506 naughtiness?1529 noughtihoodc1540 inexcellence1590 improbity1593 flagition1598 meschancy1609 scelerateness1613 pravity1620 meschantnessa1630 flagitiousness1692 flagitiosity1727 nefariousness1727 bale-fire1855 ill-conditionedness1866 iniquitousness1870 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] woughc888 manOE evilness1000 evilc1040 un-i-thora1200 witherfulnessc1200 mixshipc1225 quedeship?c1225 lithernessa1240 unwrastshipa1250 felonyc1290 shrewheadc1290 litherhead1297 wickedheada1300 wicknessa1300 follyc1300 shrewdom13.. wickhedec1305 shrewdheadc1315 shrewdnessc1315 unwrastnessc1315 wickc1330 wickednessa1340 quedehead1340 quedeness1340 lewdnessa1387 felona1400 wickedleka1400 wickedredea1400 badnessc1400 shrewdshipc1400 shrewnessc1425 wickdomc1440 noughtinessa1500 naughtiness?1529 sinfulness1530 noughtihoodc1540 meschancy1609 scelerateness1613 meschantnessa1630 nefariousness1727 devilness1853 a1630 D. Hume Hist. Houses Douglas & Angus (1644) 153 Which I confesse is so profound and deep a folly, and mischantnesse, that I can by no means sound it. 1912 D. McKie Fables frae French 14 A pawky Paddock, wi' a Rat acquent, Ance on a time was on mischantness bent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?c1450
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