Middle English Dictionary Entry
misset(te ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | misset(te ppl. |
| Etymology | From set , ppl. of setten v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Wrongly placed, misplaced; of words: poorly chosen.
Associated quotations
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)324/258 : Þis luþer maumet Adoun to gronde dasste adoun, for he was er misset.
- (1419-23) MSS PRO in App.Bk.Lond.E.305 : Because þey [names of the Earls of Arundel and Warwick] wer myssette..we wol þat ye do write hit [letter patent] ayein of a more substancial hande.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)421/17 : If ony fruyt or heerbe be here myssett or plauntid, I commytte alle defautis or errouris to þe correccioun of betir lettrid clerkis.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)1210 : For many a word I over-skipte In my tale, for pure fere Lest my wordes mysset [vr. mys sette] were.