misˈpraise, v. Now rare.
[mis-1 1, 7.]
1. trans. To dispraise, blame.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 25842 Mai naman mis-prais þe thing þe quilk es broght to god ending. 1340 Ayenb. 136 He prayzeþ more þe oþre þe more he him-zelue misprayseþ. 1481 Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 7 Your Chyldren many yeris herafter shal be myspreysed and blamed therfore. 1850 Blackie æschylus I. 196 Thus speaking, ye mispraise the holy rites Of matrimonial Hera and of Jove. |
2. To praise amiss. Also absol.
| a 1631 Donne Serm. (1640) ix. 89 They, whom I have so mispraised, are the worse in the sight of God, for my overpraising. 1888 F. T. Palgrave in 19th Cent. Sept. 341 The natural frailty to mispraise and overpraise. |
3. ? Error for: misprize v.1
| 1550 Sheph. Kal. vii. D vij, When any maketh a vow and misprayseth to doo it. |