misdoern.

a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xii. 66 Wareþoru þulke aperte misdoars þat noȝt ne bez worþi to ben iboruwed.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 8 Uor to slaȝe þe misdoeres, riȝt uor to done and loki.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 115 (MED) Whan þeues and mysdoeres wers þere byheded.

c1440 Privity of Passion (Thornton) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 206 (MED) He..was a theefe & a mysdoere all his lyfe.

1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 2 If eny persone or persones geve eny other mete or drinke to the seid mysdoers being in stokkes..or the same prisoners favour in their mysdoyng.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke xxiii. 39 And one of the myszdoers that hanged there blasphemed him.

a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 3 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Feare of law, which restraineth offences, and inflicteth sharpe punishment to misdoers.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 50 To summond thir misdoeris at the marcat crossis of Abirdein..to compeir befoir the secreit counsall.

1799 W. Scott tr. J. W. von Goethe Goetz of Berlichingen v. 194 Raise them to heaven, and cry, Woe upon misdoers!

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. ix. ii. vi. 590 Without having succeeded so far as to have produced in the breast of the misdoer any permanent..repentance.

1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xviii. 216 The deer was ravaging the man's fields, and he had killed it..and he had carried it into the royal forest in the hope that that might make detection of the misdoer impossible.

1903 Expositor Nov. 339 The laws of physical nature..are not gentle in their treatment of misdoers, nor..of those involved in the misdoing of others.

1985 Shakespeare Q. 36 311 Rosalind..accepts the challenge and duty of correcting these misdoers.

1997 N. J. Diament in D. Shatz et al. Tikkun Olam (2005) vii. 221 Rabbi Lichtenstein reasoned that if responsibility falls upon those who are in a position to chastise potential misdoers with words, how much more [etc.].