mistone
verbEtymology From mis- + tone.
1
To give a bad or wrong tone to.
- On the whole it were better to misguide a child in knowledge, which it can remedy later, than to mistone it in feeling, for which there is no remedy. A jarring note implanted in its nature might spoil the music of its life […]1895, Henry Maudsley, The Pathology of Mind, page 541: