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prevent; otherwife, it is a man’s unhappinefs, his mifchance 
or calamity, but not his fault. South's Sermons, 
View thefe letters, full of bad mifchance. 
France is revolted. Shakefpcare's Henry VI, 
Sleep rock thy brain, 
And never come mifchance between us twain. Shahefpeare. 
To MISCHAR'GE, v.a. To .charge amifs in an ac¬ 
count.—The malt of the reft of the complaints were touch¬ 
ing particulars mfcharged. Hale's Sheriff's Accompts. 
MISCHA'RON, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irak : i x j miles fouth-eaft of Hamadan. 
MIS'CHIEF, /." [inefchef, old Fr.] Harm ; hurt; what¬ 
ever is ill and irfjurioufly done.—The law in that cafe pu- 
juilheth the thought; for better is a mfchief than an in¬ 
convenience. Spenfer on Ireland. 
Was I the caufe of mfchief, or the man 
Whofe lawlefs lull the fatal war began ? Dryden's AEneid. 
,111 confeqnence; vexatious affair.—States call in foreigners 
to affift them againft a common enemy 5 but the mfchief 
was, thefe allies would never allow that the common 
enemy was fubdued. Swift. 
To MIS'CHIEF, v.a. To hart; to harm ; to injure.— 
Herod ftretched forth his hand to mfchief Home of thofe, 
which were of the church. Pearfon on the Creed. —If the 
greateft inward heat be not fweetened by meeknefs, or 
not governed by prudence, can it bring to our fouls any 
benefit ? rather it mfehiefs them. Sprat's Sermons. —How 
can men be more mifcliieved than by having the practice 
of it [a falfe religion] impofed upon them. Prideaux to the 
Deijls. 
MIS'CHIEF-MAKER, f. One who caufes mifehief. 
MIS'CHIEF-MAKING, adj. Caufmg harm : 
Come not thou, with mifehief-mailing beauty.. 
To interpofe between us: look not on him. Rowe. 
IvTIS'CHIEVOUS, adj. [This word was formerly accent¬ 
ed on the lecond fyllable ; as by Spenfer repeatedly; and 
as, long after him, by Cowley. It is even yet vulgarly fo 
pronounced. But Shakefpeare, Milton, and Dryden, con¬ 
firm the accent on the firft fyllable.] Harmful; hurtful; 
deftruftive ; noxious ; pernicious ; injurious ; wicked : 
uled both of perl’ons and things.—-That feem’d he was 
full bent to fame mfehievons deed. Spenfer. —He had cor- 
rupted'or deluded moft of his fervants, telling them that 
their mailer was run mad ; that he had difinherited his 
.heir, and was going to fettle his eftate upon a pariih-boy ; 
-that if he did not look after their mafter he would do lome 
very mifehievous thing. Arbuthnot's Hift. of J, Bull. 
Think him as a ferpent’s egg, 
Which, hatch’d, would, as his kind, grow mfehievons■; 
And kill him in the Ihell. Shakefpeare's Julius Ccejar. 
I’m but a half-ftrain’d villain yet 5 
But mongrel mifehievous. Dryden. 
Spiteful; malicious: 
Thither full fraught with mifehievous revenge, 
Accurs’d, and in a curled hour, he hies. Milton. 
MIS'CHIEVOUSLY, adv. Noxioully; hurtfully; wick¬ 
edly : 
.Nor was the cruel deffiny content 
To fweep at once her life and beauty too;; 
But like an harden’d felon took a pride 
To work more mijihievoufy flow, 
And plundered firff, and then deftroy’d. Dryden. 
MIS'CHIEVOUSNESS,/ Hurtfulnefs ; pernicioufnefs ; 
wickednefs.—Compare the harmleflnefs, the tendernefs, 
the modefty, and the ingenious pliablenefs, which is in 
youth, with the mfcliievoufnefs, the flynefs, the craft, the 
impudence, the falfehood, and the confirmed obffinacy, 
found in an aged long-praftifed finner. South's Sermons. 
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MISCH'KA, a river of Ruffia, in the country of the 
Cofacs, which runs into the Don near Verchnei Tciiir- 
kovlkaia. 
MISCH'ICIN, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Jaroflavl: fixty miles weft of Jaroflavl. Lat. 58.42. N. 
Ion. 40. 22. E. 
MISCH'NA, [Heb. repetition.] A part of the Jewifli 
Talmud.—The MiJ'chna contains the text; and the Ge- 
mara, which is the fecond part of the Talmud, contains 
the commentaries ; fo that the Gemara is, as it were, a 
gloflary on the Mifchna. Chambers.—See Talmud. 
MISCIA'NO, a town of Naples, in the province "of 
Otranto: eight miles weft-fouth-weft of Brindifi. 
MISCIBIL'Il Y, J. [from mifciblei] The capability of 
being mixed. 
MIS'CIBLE, adj. [from mifeeo , Lat.] Pofiible to be 
mingled—Acid lpirits are fubtile liquors which come 
over in dilliliations, not inflammable, mfcible with water. 
Arbuthnot. 
MIS'CIBLENESS, f. Mifcibility. Scott. 
MIS'CISLAW. See Mslavl. 
MISCITA'TION, /! Unfair or falfe quotation.—What 
a mifeitation is this ? “ Moles commanded.” The law was 
God’s, not Mofes’s. Bp. Hall—Be ing charged with mif 
citation and unfair dealing, it was requifite to lay fomV- 
thing ; honefty is a tender point. Collier. 
To MISCI'TE, v.a. To quote wrong. 
MISCLA'IM, J'. Miffaken claim.—Error, mi [claim, and 
forgetfulnefs, become fuitors for fome remiffion' of extreme 
rigour. Bacon. 
MIS'CQ. See Mixco. 
MISCOG'NISANT, adj. A law term ; ignorant of, un¬ 
acquainted with. 
MISCOMPUTA'TION, f. Falfe reckoning.—It was a 
general misfortune and mfcomputation of that time, that 
the party had fo good an opinion of their own reputation 
and intereft. Clarendon. 
MISCQNCETT, or Misconception, f Falfe opi¬ 
nion ; wrong notion.—The other, which inftead of it we 
are required to accept, is only by error and mfconceit 
named the ordnance of Jefus Chrift; no one proof beiim 
as yet brought forth, whereby it may clearly appear to be 
fo in very deed. Hooher. —'Great errours and dangers re- 
fult out of a mfconception of the names of things. Harvey 
on Conjumptions. —It will be a great fatisfaftion to fee 
thole pieces of moft ancient hiltory, which have been 
chiefly preferved in Scripture, confirmed anew, and freed 
from thofe mfconceptions or mifreprefentations which made 
them fit unealy upon the fpirits even of the belt men. 
Burner's Theory of the Earth. 
To MISCONCEIVE, v.a. To misjudge; to have a 
falfe notion of.—Olir endeavour is not fo much to over¬ 
throw them with whom we contend, as to yield them juft 
and reafonable caufes of thofe things, which, for want of 
due confideration heretofore, they mfconceived. Hooker. 
To MISCONCEIVE, v.n. To entertain a miftaken no¬ 
tion ; to have a wrong idea.—The high prieft, fufpefting 
left the king fliould mfconceive that fome treachery had 
been done to Heliodorus by the Jews, offered a facrifice 
for the health of the man. 2 Mace. iii. 32. 
MISCONCETVING, f. The aft of miftaking; of con¬ 
ceiving wrong. 
MISCON'DUCT, f. Ill behaviour; ill management.— 
It highly concerned them to refleft, how great obligations 
both the memory of their pall mf conduct, and their pre- 
fent advantages, laid on them, to walk with care and .ci.r- 
cumfpeftion. Rogers's Sermons. —They are induftrioufly 
proclaimed and aggravated by fuch as are guilty or inno¬ 
cent of the fame flips or mf conduits in their own beha¬ 
viour. Add foil's Spectator. 
To MISCONDUCT', v.a. To manage amifs ; to carry 
on wrong. 
MISCONDUCT'ING,yi The aft of conducting wrong; 
of behaving improperly. 
MISCOlN'JEC'TURE, J". A wrong guefs.—I hope they 
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