misget
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English misgeten, equivalent to mis- + get.
Verb
misget (third-person singular simple present misgets, present participle misgetting, simple past misgot, past participle misgotten)
- (obsolete, transitive) To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
Derived terms
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “misget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)