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† mislichadj.Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with (in various senses) Old Frisian mislīk (West Frisian mislik ), Middle Dutch misselijc , messelijc , mislijc , meslijc (Dutch misselijk ), Old Saxon missilīk (Middle Low German mislīk , misselīk ), Old High German mislīh , missilīk , missilīh , missalīh (Middle High German mislich , misselich , German misslich ), Gothic missaleiks < the Germanic base of mis- prefix1 + the Germanic base of -ly suffix1. Old Icelandic mislíkr, Danish †mistelig, †mistlig, mislig, Old Swedish mislika, misliker (Swedish misslig, mistlig) are probably ultimately < Middle Low German or Middle High German.The β. forms show epenthetic -t- . Compare Old English missenlic , a parallel formation with nasal infix. Compare also early Middle English mislich in sense ‘sinful, improper, foul’, probably either after or directly < miss n.1:c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 10 Ah, þah ha falewi sum chere mid misliche þonkes, ha mei eft grenin.?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 125 Ich wunie bimong men þe fuleð heore lippen Mid misliche [L. polluta] spechen. Obsolete. the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] OE 43 Þa lareowas sceolan synnfullum mannum eadmodlice tæcan & læran, þæt hie heora synna cunnon onrihtlice geandettan; forþon þe hie beoþ toþon mislice. OE Ælfric (Julius) (1881) I. 14 Ða gesceafta þe þæs an scyppend gesceop synden mænig-fealde, and mislices hiwes, and ungelice farað. OE (Tiber. B.i) anno 979 Þy ilcan geare wæs gesewen blodig wolcen..on fyres gelicnesse, & þæt wæs swyðost on middeniht oþywed, & swa on mistlice beamas wæs gehiwod. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius (Bodl.) xxxiii. 82 Þu fyldest ðas eorðan mid mistlicum cynrenum netena, & hi siððan aseowe mistlicum sæde treowa & wyrta. c1230 (?a1200) (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 7 Þe inre [rule] is eauer ilich; þe uttre is mislich. OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens (1974) 382 Errabundis : uagabundus, uel mistlicum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.OE |