misdo, v.
(mɪsˈduː)
Forms: see do v.1
[OE. misdón = OFris. misdua, MDu., Du. misdoen, OHG. missa-, missituon, -duan (MHG. missetuon, G. misstun): see mis-1 1 and do v.1]
1. intr. To do evil or wrong; to do harm or injury to, unto, against. Now rare or Obs.
c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. John iii. 20 Hælc monn..seðe yfle vel mis doeð. a 1023 Wulfstan Hom. I. (1883) 270 Ac to fela is þæra, þe ær þisan misdydan. 1154 O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1135 Durste nan man misdon wið oðer on his time. c 1200 Ormin 3974, & ȝiff þatt iss þatt he missdoþ Onn aniȝ kinne wise, Itt reoweþþ himm. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3555 He hauen sineged and misdon. a 1300 Cursor M. 7914 Ga to dauid king, and sai He has misdon again mi lai. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxvi. (Baptista) 436 [He] with-stud in na degre agane þame þat in ony thing til hyme mysded. 1470–85 Malory Arthur xvi. xvi. 686 Fair swete Ihesu that I haue mysdoo haue mercy vpon my sowle. c 1500 Melusine 261 There nys none that may say that euer we mysdyde..ayenst our souerayne lord. 1561 Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc i. i, I knowe nothynge at all, Wher in I haue misdone vnto his Grace. 1618 Wither Motto, Nec Careo Juvenilia (1633) 531 To see my Friend misdoe, I want not eyes, Nor Love to cover his infirmities. 1671 Milton P.R. i. 225 The erring Soul Not wilfully mis-doing, but unware Misled. 1676 Dryden State Innoc. v. i, I have misdone; and I endure the Smart. 1875–86 W. Somerset Gloss., Misdo, to transgress; to do amiss. |
2. trans. With pronominal or vague object: To do amiss. ? Obs.
a 1060 Laws of æthelred (Liebermann) 258 ᵹif hit ᵹeweorpeð þæt man unwilles..æniᵹ þing misdeð. a 1200 Moral Ode 100 Al þet we misduden her ho hit wulleð kuðe þere. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 491 Ere Ion..bisouȝte is grace of þat he adde misdo. c 1320 R. Brunne Medit. 462 What haþ he mysdo to dey þus? 1390 Gower Conf. I. 122 Godd it thee foryive If thou have eny thing misdo Touchende of this. c 1440 Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xl, They haue kyssed and made frendes: and all is forgyuen that was mysse done. 1528 More Dyaloge iii. Wks. 225/1 The thinges that they mysdo. 1592 Kyd Sp. Trag. ii. v. 28 O poore Horatio, what hadst thou misdonne. 1671 Milton Samson 911 To shew what recompense Toward thee I intend for what I haue misdone. 1837 Carlyle in Lett. Jane W. Carlyle (1883) I. 70, I know not whether this book is worth anything, nor what the world will do with it, or misdo. |
b. To do (work), perform (a duty) improperly.
1840 Carlyle Heroes iv. 274 The work committed to him will be misdone. 1858 ― Fredk. Gt. x. v. II. 642 He could have done us this little service..and he..has been tempted into misdoing it! 1893 Advance (Chicago) 23 Mar., To misapprehend and mis-do the duty now fronting us. |
† 3. To do evil or wrong to (a person); to harm, injure, wrong. Obs.
a 1225 Ancr. R. 124 Ȝif ei mon oðer ei wummon mis-seið oðer mis-deð ou. c 1275 Lay. 22456 And ich þe wolle loke to þat no king ne sal þe mis-do [c 1205 woh don] . c 1357 Lay Folks Catech. (T.) 370 To be tholemode when men misdos us. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 252 Misdoth he no man ne with his mouth greueth. 1470–85 Malory Arthur v. xii. 181 Madame ther shal none of my subgettys mysdoo you ne your maydens. 1530 Palsgr. 637/1, I nouther mysded hym nor myssayd him. 1597 Lyly Wom. in Moon iii. i. 24, Pardon me, That I misdid thee in my witles rage. |
† b. To injure (an inanimate object). Obs.
1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 111 Mysbyleued men mysdede neuere þat chirche. c 1400 Chron. Eng. lxxii. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LII. 12 The walles were so stronge that noo man myght hem mysdoo. |
† 4. To destroy, put out of existence. refl. To do away with oneself. Obs.
c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 2642 Hamonel [? Hamones] likenes was ðor-on; ðis crune is broken, ðis is misdon. 1592 Kyd Sp. Trag. iv. v. 6 Faire Isabella by her selfe misdone. 1599 Warn. Faire Wom. ii. 669 Is not The better part of me by me misdone? My husband, is he not slaine? 1600 Heywood 2nd Pt. Edw. IV, Wks. 1874 I. 142 Drownd in a butte of Malmsey! that is strange, Doubtless he neuer would misdoe himself? 1613 J. Davies (Heref.) Muses Teares D 2 b, Seuere Torquatus, did his Sonne mis-do For charging, 'gainst his Chardge, his brauing Fo. 1619 in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1829) App. 348 A burial-place for children dying without baptism, and for such as had misdone themselves. |