▪ I. † misˈpoint, v.1 Obs.
[See dispoint v.1 and mis-1 9.]
trans. To balk.
| 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxlix, Whan they apperceyued this, that they were myspoynted they saylled strayt to Depe. |
▪ II. misˈpoint, v.2 Now rare or Obs.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. † a. To point with the wrong finger. Obs. b. To punctuate wrongly; to mispunctuate. Also misˈpointed ppl. a., misˈpointing vbl. n.
| 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 87 b, The errour of mys⁓poyntyng with the fynger. 1567–9 Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 103 You haue purposely corrupted, and mispointed the whole place. 1582 Stanyhurst æneis, etc. (Arb.) 157 The mis⁓poyncting of periods. 1635 Jackson Creed viii. xxxiii. 376 Those sophistical Novelists who thus mispoint the words of his promise... Verily I say unto thee this day, thou shalt be with me in Paradise. 1649 Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iii. vii. 299 Ambroses mis-pointed reading. 1744 C. Willats Assize Serm. at York 26 This greatly mistaken passage..could not possibly have been mistaken..if it had not been first mispointed. 1870 Lowell Study Wind. 307 Misprints and mispointings. |