单词 | misturn |
释义 | misturnv. Now rare. 1. transitive. To turn (something) in a wrong direction. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > invert [verb (transitive)] > turn the reverse or wrong way turna1200 misturna1350 overturna1382 reversec1400 revertc1440 inturn1573 retrograde1582 renversec1586 retrovert1782 roll1918 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > arrange in sequence or series [verb (transitive)] > reverse natural or proper order misturna1350 inverse?a1425 invert1533 transvert1552 preposterate1566 retrograde1582 rencounter1689 transverse1738 a1350 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1911) 127 42 (MED) Armes oþer legges misturnd wose syþ [in dreams], langour & mournyng þat biþ. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 349 The knee knoppe is selden when broken, but it is ofte tymes mysturnede. a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 187 To reduce a water-course that is misturned. 1894 T. D. English Select Poems 485 I lie concealed at every railway station; I break up wheels..I misturn switches. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > misapply > pervert miswendc1325 misturna1382 pervertc1390 transpose1509 wrestc1530 bend1531 crooken1552 intervert1603 invert1603 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Num. xxxii. 7 Why mystorne [a1425 L.V. peruerten; L. subvertitis] ȝe þe þouȝtys of þe sonys of Irael. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Gal. i. 7 Ther ben summe that disturblen ȝou, and wolen mysturne [L. convertere] the euangelie of Crist. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 427 (MED) Diverse men..Thurgh sihte of hem [sc. monsters] mistorned were, Stondende as Stones hiere and there. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 1617 (MED) Þam sall be wa Þat here mysturnes þair lyfe swa. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 142 (MED) Þou mysturnyst þe tyme þat god ordeynyd, for þou makyst day of nyȝt, & nyȝt of day. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 71 The unlefull synne of lecherye..mistornithe the ordre of nature. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. (1557) 359/1 Tindal..manifestlye misturneth the mynde and sentence of our sauiour. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 239 Wherupon followeth, that ye doctrine of iustification is mistourned, yea ouerturned from the very foundation. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 398 The state of the Question is mis~tourned by the Romanistes. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > move in a certain direction [verb (intransitive)] > move in wrong direction misturna1393 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 957 Whan this litel world mistormeþ [read mistorneþ], The grete world al overtorneth. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 4302 (MED) If the Monthe of Juil schal frese And that Decembre schal ben hot, The yeer mistorneth, wel I wot. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) i. xxiv. 29 Bokes of moralyte techen what wey a trewe pylgrym owed for to take and not for to mystorne to one syde, ne to other. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > failure or going wrong misturningc1400 c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. viii. 308 (MED) Ac þe wey ys so wyckede bote ho hadde a gyde Þat myght folwen ous ech fot, for drede of mys-tornynge. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 5545 Fortune myshappyng Thurgh misturnyng of hir chaunce. ?c1475 in J. Norri Names of Sicknesses in Eng. 1400–1550 (1992) 144 Mysturnyng of þe face, also falling dovne to grounde, is a grete token. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1350 |
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