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To MISBELIE'VE, v.n. To hold a falfe religion ; to 
believe wrongly. — Hither hale that mijbelieving Moor. 
Titus Anclronicus. 
MISBELIE'VER, J\ One that holds a falfe religion, or 
believes wrongly : 
Yes, if I drew it with a curft intent 
To take a mi/believer to my bed. 
It mu ft be fo. jDry Sen's Don Sebajlian. 
MISBELIE'VING, adj. Diftruftful ; having a wrong 
belief. 
MISBELIE'VINGLY, adv. Diftruftfully. Scott. 
To MISBESEE'M, v. a. To fuit ill ; not to become.— 
—One thinks it mijbefeeming the author, becaufe a poem ; 
another, unlawful in itfelf, becaufe a fatire. Bp. Hall. 
■£[. JMISBESTO'W, V. u. To beftow improperly.—There 
cannot be.a better way than to take the mifbcjlowed wealth, 
which they .were cheated of. Mi lion. 
Remember, dear, how loath and flow 1 
I was to call a look or fmile, 
O r one love-line to mis-befiow. 
Till thou hadft chang’d both face and ftile. Careu). 
MISBO'DING, adj. Boding ill; threatening ill. 
MISBOR/N, adj. Born to misfortune; unluckily born: 
Ah ! mijbom elf, 
In evil hour thy foes thee hither fent. Spenfer. 
MISBO'RNE, adj. Milbehaved; uncivil. Chaucer. 
To MISCALCULATE, v. a. To reckon wrong.—Af¬ 
ter all the care I have taken, there may be, in l’uch a mul¬ 
titude of paflages, feveral mifquoted, mifinterpr.eted, and 
mijcalculated. Arbuthnot on Coins. 
MISCALCULATING, J'. The aft of counting or 
reckoning wrong. 
MISCALCULATION, J. Wrong computation.— 
Their want of intercalations, and their miscalculations of 
ecliples. Bibliotli. Bibl. 
To MISCA'LL, v. a. To name improperly.—The third 
aft, which connefts propofitions and deduceth concluiions 
from them, the fchools call difcourfe ; and we fliall not 
mi leal it if we name it reafon. Glanville's Scep/is. 
MISCA'LLING, J'. The aft of calling by a wrong 
name. 
MISCANEL'LO, a town of Naples, in Balilicata: 
twenty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Potenza. 
MISCAR'RIAGE, f. Ill conduft.—How, alas ! will 
he appear in that awful day, when even the failings and 
mijcarriag.cs of the righteous (hall not be concealed, though 
the mercy of God be magnified in their pardon. Rogers. 
—Unhappy event of our undertakings ; failure.—A great 
part of that time which the inhabitants of the former 
earth had to fpare, and whereof they made fo ill ufe, was 
now employed in digging and plowing; and the excels of 
fertility which contributed fo much to their mifcarriages , 
was retrafted and cut off. Woodward's Nat. Hijt. 
Your cures aloud you tell, 
But wifely your mijcarriages conceal. Garth's Difpenfiiry. 
Abortion ; aft of bringing forth before the time.—There 
muft be mifcarriages and abortions ; for there died many 
women with child. Graunt. — See Abortion, and Con¬ 
ception ; alfo the article Parturition. 
To MISCAR'RY, v:n. To fail; not to have the in¬ 
tended event; not to fucceed ; to be loft in an enterprife ; 
not to reach the efteft intended.—Sweet Bafianio, my 
fhips have all mifearried, my creditors grow cruel, my 
eftate is very low. Shakefpeare's Merchant of Venice. —I 
could mention Lome projefts which I have brought to 
maturity, and others which have mifearried. Addifon's 
Guardian. —No wonder that this expedient fhould fo often 
rnifearry, which requires fo much art and genius to arrive 
at any perfeftion in it. Swift. 
If you mifcarry, 
Your bufinefs of the world hath fo an end, 
And machination ceafes. Shahcjpeare. 
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To have an abortion.-—His wife mifearried; but the abor¬ 
tion proved a female feetus. Pope and Arbuthnot. —Many 
politick conceptions elaborately formedand wrought, and 
grown at length ripe for a delivery, do yet, in the iffue, 
mifearry and prove abortive. South's Sermons .— You have 
proved yourfelf more tender of another’s embrios than the 
fondeft mothers are of their own ; for y-ou have preferved 
every thing that I mifearried of. Pope. 
MISCAR'RYING, J\ A mifearriage. The aft of car¬ 
rying to a wrong place. 
To MISCA'ST, v. a. To take a wrong account of. —■ 
Men mifcajl their days; for in their age they deduce the 
account not from the day of their birth, but the year of 
our Lord wherein they were born. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 
MISCA'STING, f. The aft of calling or reckoning 
wrong. 
MISCELLANA'RIAN, adj. Of nrifcellanies.—’Tis in 
the fame view, that we mifcellanarian authors, being fear¬ 
ful of the natural lalfitude and fatiety of our indolent 
reader, have prudently betaken ourfelves to the way of 
•chapters and contents ; that, as the reader proceeds, by 
frequent intervals of repofe contrived on purpofe for him, 
he may from time to time be advertiled of what is yet to 
come, and be tempted thus to renew his application. 
SluftejodPt' 
MISCELLANA'RIAN, f. [the adj. by ellipfis for] A 
mifcellanarian writer.—I lhall no way confine myfelf to 
the precife contents of thefe treatifes; but, like my fellow- 
mijcellanarians, lhall take occalion to vary often from my 
propofed fubjeft. Shaftefbury. 
MISCELLA'NE, or Missel LA.ne, f. Mixed corn.— It 
is thought to be of ufe to make forne niiffellane in corn; 
as, if you fow a few beans with wheat, youi' yvheat will be 
the better. Bacon's Nat. Hift. 
MISCELLANE'AS, f. in botany, a name given by 
Linnaeus to the 54th of his Natural Orders, and which 
well exprelfes the heterogeneous nature of that order. 
See the article Botany, vol. iii. p. 299. 
Miscellanea is alfo the name of an order of the clafs 
Cryptogamia, according to Schreber, in his Gen. PL 753. 
Under it he comprehends Equifetum, Lycopodium, Po- 
rella, Salvinia, Marfilea, Pilularia, and Ifoetes. Thefe 
have little affinity ; and the order can be confidered mere¬ 
ly as a receptacle for what could not well be placed elfe- 
v.here, as its name feems to imply. 
MISCELLANEOUS, adj. [mifcellaneus, Lat.] Min¬ 
gled ; compofed of various kinds.—Being mifcellaneous in 
many things, he is to be received with fufpicion ; for fuch 
as amafs all relations muft err in fome, and without of¬ 
fence be unbelieved in many. Broivn. 
And what the people but a herd confus’d, 
A mifcellaneous rabble, who extol 
Things vulgar, and well weigh’d fcarce worth the praife. 
Milton. 
MISCELLA'NEOUSNESS, f. Compofition of various 
kinds. 
MIS'CELLANY, adj. [ mifcellaneus , Lat.] Mixed of 
various kinds.—By their mifcellany deities at Rome, which 
grew together with their victories, they fltevved no nation 
was without its god. Pearjbn on the Creed. 
MIS'CELLANY, J\ A mafs formed out of various 
kinds.—’Tis but a bundle or mifcellany of fin ; fins ori¬ 
ginal,.and fins aftual. Hewyt's Sermons. —I acquit myfelf 
of the prefump.tion of having lent my name to recommend 
mijcellanies or w'orks of other men. Pope. 
When they have join’d their pericranies, 
Out lkips a book of .mijcellanies. Swift. 
To MISCEN'TRE, v. a. To place amifs. — They were 
confounded, becaufe they hoped, fays thy lervantjob; 
becaufe they had milplaced, mfcentred, their hopes. Donne. 
MISCHAN'CE, f. Ill luck ; ill fortune ; misfortune; 
mifiiap.—Nothing can be a realonable ground of defpifing 
a man but fome fault chargeable upon him; and nothing 
can be a fault that is not naturally in a man’s power to 
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