misgraffed
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
misgraffed (not comparable)
- (obsolete) grafted wrongly; misgrafted
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- LYSANDER
Ah me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth:
But either it was different in blood,--
HERMIA
O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low!
LYSANDER
Or else misgraffed in respect of years;--
HERMIA
O spite! too old to be engag'd to young!
References[edit]
- “misgraff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.