▪ I. † mis-ˈseeming, vbl. n. Obs.
[mis-1 3.]
? False show.
| 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 50 With her witchcraft and misseeming sweete. |
▪ II. mis-ˈseeming, ppl. a.
[mis-1 2.]
Misbecoming, unseemly.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter lxxii. 15 Lo this misemand thing folous. 1513 Douglas æneis i. Prol. 409 He..haldis mis⁓semyng, Ay word by word to reduce ony thing. Ibid. xii. i. 63 Of blude and frendschip na thyng myssemand [orig. nec genus indecores]. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. ix. 23 For never knight I saw in such misseeming plight. 1603 Florio Montaigne i. xxxvi, A thing which would no whit be misseeming or undecent. |