misget

verb

misget

verb

Etymology From Middle English misgeten, equivalent to mis- + get.

1

Obsolete To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.

the fruitlesse end Of thy vaine boast , and spoile of love misgot1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Derived terms: misgetting, misgotten

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