misgovernmentn.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 1975 Of good or mys governement.

?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 79 Tarquinius Superbus..for his misgouernment and lust in the Citie against the chaste matrones..was at length..banished Rome.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. f. 127^v Through idlenesse, or gluttonie, or some such misgouernment.

1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 384 Through his owne obstinate headinesse and misgouernment.

1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense To T. Albius sig. A4, in Scepsis Scientifica The unreasonable heats, frequent partialities... The resentment I have of which misgovernments, was a principle motive.

1565 J. Scudamore Let. 17 Dec. in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) I. ii. 209 I perceive that ther is some mysgovernment in the Citie I am right sory to here yt you beinge the aunoye[nt] father of the Citie.

c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 19 The misgovernement of the King and realme.

1606 No-body & Some-body sig. C.^v King Archigallo that now raignes In tiranny, and strange misgouerment.

c1620 E. Coke in F. Bacon Wks. (1827) VII. 376 Tending to..the raising of faction or other misgovernment.

1775 E. Burke Speech Resol. for Concil. Colonies 20 They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 522 The misgovernment of James..completely turned the tide of public feeling.

1889 Sat. Rev. 30 Mar. 371/2 The chronic misgovernment..which usually accompanies Turkish rule.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 36/2 This appeal to Moslem sentiment was..powerless against the disaffection due to perennial misgovernment.

1961 M. A. Wall Dominee & Dom-Pas 22 They ‘tried’ the ‘rebels’ who had denounced the Chief's domestic misgovernment, and condemned them to death.

1997 Economist 31 May 15/2 That may be happening in Indonesia, where discontent with misgovernment risks being Islamised, overwhelming the traditional good temper of the country's 167m Muslims.

1600 Privy Council Order 22 June in Acts Privy Council (1905) XXX. 395 The multitude of the saide [play] houses and the mysgover [n] ment of them hath bin and is dayly occasion of the ydle, ryoutous and dissolute living of great nombers of people.

1601 Act 43 Eliz. c. 4 §1 Misconvertinge or misgovernemente, of any Landes Tenementes Rentes.

1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule of Holy Living (1686) i. §1. 9 If such mis-government and unskilfulness make them fall into vitious and baser company.

1777 J. Howard State of Prisons (1780) 181 No..servant of any judge to take a fee on occasion of a petition or complaint, founded upon the foregoing orders, or any misgovernment.

1854 Asylum Jrnl. No. 7. 99/2 (heading) Misgovernment of the Norfolk County Asylum.