Artificial intelligent assistant

misfare

I. misˈfare, n. Obs.
    [f. mis-1 4 + fare n.1]
    Going wrong or astray; mishap, misfortune.

a 1300 Cursor M. 315 His sun..þat wat All þinges þat haldes stat, And halds þam up fro misfare Þat þai ne worth to noght. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 213 Sterynge and meuynge in lymes wiþ oute eny mysfare [orig. motus membrorum sine errore]. c 1470 Henry Wallace x. 1060 Mekill dolour it did him in his mynd, Off thair mysfayr. 1496 Dives & Pauper (W. de W.) x. ii. 372/2 They were more enclyned to lecherye for welfare than to robberye for mysfare. 1596 Spenser F.Q. vi. iii. 24 Crying aloud to shew her sad misfare Unto the knights.

II. misˈfare, v. Obs.
    Forms: see fare v.1
    [OE. misfaran = OFris. misfara, MHG. missevarn, ON. misfara: see mis-1 1 and fare v.1]
    1. intr. To fare ill, come to grief, be unfortunate.

c 1000 ælfric Hom. (Th.) I. 100 Sume..cweðað ðæt hi þurh bletsunge misfarað, and ðurh wyriᵹunge ᵹeðeoð. a 1023 Wulfstan Hom. xviii. (1883) 104 Eala, ᵹefyrn is, þæt ðurh deofol fela þinga misfor. c 1230 Hali Meid. 34 For nis ha neauer wiðute care leste hit ne mis-feare. c 1350 Will. Palerne 1359 Þi fader and al his folk so misfaren hadde, þat alle here liues in a stounde hadde be lore. c 1420 Sir Amadace (Camden) xxi, A dede cors opon a bere lay A woman alle mysfare. 1496 Dives & Pauper (W. de W.) vii. xxviii. 319/1 In what londe usurye is used openly that londe shall mysfare. 1621 Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 232 Do ȝe the contrair, ȝour housis will misfair. 1633 Heywood Eng. Trav. v, If shee misfare I am a man more wretched in her losse, Then had I forfeited life and estate.

    b. Of an enterprise: To miscarry, fail.

c 1375 Barbour Bruce (Edinb. MS.) x. 529 For it wes hys ententioun To put hym till all awentur Or that a sege on hym mysfur. 1513 Douglas æneis ix. Prol. 66 Now war me laith my lang laubour mysfur.

    2. To go wrong; to transgress.

c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. i. 29 Forðon oft for ðæs lareowes unwisdome misfarað [orig. offendant] ða hieremenn. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 1911 If he saȝ hise breðere mis-faren, His fader he it gan vn-hillen. a 1300 Cursor M. 866, I sagh wel þat i misfard. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 115 Er thou so with thiself misfare. 1487 How Good Wife Taught Dau. 282 And kep thame fra neyd and mystair, That pouerte gar thame nocht mysfair.

    3. trans. (Sc.) a. To do amiss. b. To cause to go wrong.

1461 Liber Pluscardensis xii. viii, He that all as made As langand gouernance of his Godhade Nathing mysfaris, bot all dois for the best. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 172 He shall..misfair the Government and Guidment of his Country.

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