misentreat

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ entreat

Verb

misentreat (third-person singular simple present misentreats, present participle misentreating, simple past and past participle misentreated)

1. (obsolete) To treat wrongfully.
   • 1483, Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints:

     A clerke‥sayd it was not hones […] to mysentrete the holy body by vyolente hondes.

References

• “misentreat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Main Street, antimeters, intermates, main street, mainstreet, martensite, terminates, tetramines