▪ I. † ˈmisture1 Obs. rare.
[? f. miss v.1 on the analogy of mixture; but prob. suggested by mister n.1 8.]
A loss, privation; = miss n.1 1, 2.
| 1563–83 Foxe A. & M. 1964/2 How sore they tooke hys death to hart, and also, how hardly they could away with the misture [orig. desiderium] of such a man. 1592 Nashe P. Penilesse 20 b, It is a great misture, that we haue not men swine as well as beasts. |
▪ II. † ˈmisture2 Obs. rare.
[ad. L. mistūra: see mixture.]
Mixture.
| a 1626 Bacon Disc. Union Eng. & Scot. in Resuscitatio (1657) 201 Such Imperfect Mistures, continue no longer, then they are forced. |