▪ I. miˈsprized, ppl. a.1
[f. misprize v.1 + -ed1.]
a. Despised, scorned. b. Not appreciated.
| 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xvii. cxli, The best amends I can, I vow to make To my misprised slander'd Piety. 1822 Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. xi. (1869) 228 Such misprized obligations. 1880 M{supc}Carthy Own Times lxvii. IV. 529 The misprized Tiberius. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 396 The pangs of misprised love. |
▪ II. † misˈprized, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. misprize v.2 + -ed1.]
Mistaken.
| 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 74 You spend your passion on a mispris'd mood. |