misbede
English
Etymology
From Middle English misbeden, from Old English misbēodan (“to do wrong to”), equivalent to mis- + bede.
Verb
misbede (third-person singular simple present misbedes, present participle misbeding, simple past misbode, past participle misboden)
- (obsolete, transitive) To wrong; to do injury to.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “misbede”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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