misdight
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪt
Adjective
misdight (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.7:
- Her heart gan grudge for very deepe despight / Of so unmanly maske in misery misdight.
- (Can we date this quote by Bishop Joseph Hall and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Despised nature suit them once aright, / Their body to their coat, both now misdight. / Their body to their clothes might shapen be, / That nill their clothes shape to their bodie.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.7: