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The time mfforder'd doth in common fenfe 
Ci'owd us, and crufh us to this monftrous form, 
To hold our fafety up. Shtffafpeurc's Hen. IV. 
MISOR'DER, J. Irregularity; diforderly proceedings. 
—When news was brought to Richard the Second, that 
his uncles, who fought to reform the miforclers of his 
counfellors, were affembled in a wood near unto the court, 
he merrily demanded of one Sir Hugh a Linne, who had 
been a good military man, but was then fomewliat dif- 
traught of his wits, what he would advife him to do ? 
Miie out, quoth Sir Hugh, and flay than every mother’s 
fon ; and, when thou haftfo done, thou haft killed all the 
faithful friends thou haft in England. Camden's Remains. 
MISOR'DERING, j\ The aft of ordering wrong. 
MISOR'DERLY, adj. Irregular; unlawful.—His over¬ 
much fearing of you drives him to feek fome mijbrderly 
fhift, to be helped by fome other book, or to be prompted 
by fome other fcholar. Afcham's Schoolmajier. 
MIS'PACH, a town of Bavaria, in the lordfliip of Up¬ 
per Waldeck : thirty miles eaft of Weilhaim, and twenty- 
feven fouth-fouth-eaft of Munich. 
MIS'PAR, [from the Heb.] A man’s name. 
MIS'PARATH, [from the Heb.] A man’s name. 
To MISPELL', or Mis-spell, v. a. To I pel 1 wrong.— 
She became a profeft enemy to the arts and fciences, and 
fcarce ever wTote a letter to liiin without wilfully mijpelling 
his name. SpeSlator. 
MISPELL'ING, f. The aft of fpelling wrong. 
To MISPEN'D, v. a. preterite and part, paflive, mifpent. 
To fpend ill; to wafte ; to conlume to no purpofe ; to 
throw away.—What a deal of cold bufinefs doth a man 
mifpend the better part of life in ! In fcattering complL 
ments, tendering viftts, gathering and venting news. 
Ji. Jonfon's Difcoveries. —Let him now endeavour to re¬ 
deem what he hath mijpent by employing more of that lei- 
fure in this duty for the future. Whole Duty of Man. — 
He who hath lived with the greateft care will find, upon a 
review of his time, that he has fomething to redeem ; but 
he who has mijpent much has ftill a greater concern. 
Rogers. —Wife men retrieve, as far as they are able, every 
mifpent or unprofitable hour which has flipped from them. 
Rogers. 
Firft guilty confidence does the mirrour bring. 
Then fharp remorfe fhoots out her angry fling ; 
And anxious thoughts, within themfelves atftrife, 
Upbraid the long mijpent luxurious life. Dryden. 
To wafte, with the reciprocal pronoun : 
Now let the arched knife their tliirfty limbs 
Diflever, for the genial moifture due 
To apples otherwife mifpends itfelf 
In barren twigs. Philips. 
MISPEN'DER, f. One who fpends ill or prodigally.— 
I fufpeft the excellency of thofe men’s parts who are dif- 
folute, and carelefs mifpenders of their time. Norris. 
MISPEN'DING, J'. The aft of wafting ; the aft of la- 
vifhing away. 
MISPEN'CE, f. Wafte ; lofs; ill employment.—The 
mifpence of our time, the wafting our talents, and the 
negleft of that immediate duty and worfhip we owe to 
Almighty God, are, I fear, matters which are feldom ac¬ 
counted for by us. KillingheelC s Sermons. —Since we find 
ourfelves guilty of the iinfull mijpenje of our good hours, 
let us, whiles we have fpace, obtain of ourfelves to be 
carefull of redeeming that precious time which we have 
loft. Bp. Hall. 
To MISPERSUA'DE, v. a. To bring to a wrong no¬ 
tion. 1 —Shall we give fentence of death inevitable againft 
all thofe fathers of the Greek church, which, being mif- 
perfunded , died in the errour of free-will ? Hooker on Jujii- 
‘fication. 
MISPERSUA'SION, J. Wrong notion; falfe opinion. 
—Some mifperfuufions concerning the Divine Attributes 
tend to the corrupting men’s manners. Decay of Piety. 
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MISPIL'LION, a town of North America, in the ftate 
of Delaware : fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Dover. 
MISPIL'LION CREEK, a river of the ftate of Dela¬ 
ware, which runs into the Delaware Bay in lat. 38.59. N. 
Ion. 75. 25. W. 
lo MISPLA'CE, v a. To put in a wrong place.—He 
mjplaced nis confidence, took hypocrify tor fidelity, and 
fio relied upon the fervices of a pack of villains. South. 
What little arts govern the world ! we need not 
An unarm’d enemy or corrupted friend, 
When fervice but mifplac'd, or love miftaken, 
Perform the work. ‘ Denham's Sophy. 
MISPLA'CING, f. The aft of laying in a wrong place. 
To MISPOI'NT, v. a. To confute fentences by^wrong 
punftuation. 
MISPOIN'TING, f. The aft of pointing wrong. 
lo MISPRIN'T, v. a. To print w'rong.—The cafe is 
mis-printed. Hale's H. P. C. 
MISPRIN'T, J. An error of the prefs. 
MISPRIN'LING, _/. The aft of printing wrong. 
To MISPRI'SE, v. a. [Sometimes it fignifies miftaken, 
from the French verb mejprendre; fometimes undervalued 
or difdained, from the French verb meprifer. Hanmer.—It 
is in both fenfes wholly obfolete.] To miftake : 
You fpend your paflion on a mijpris'd mood ; 
I am not guilty of Lyfander’s blood. Shahefpeare. 
To flight; to fcorn ; to defpife.—He’s fo much in the heart 
of the world, and efpecially of my own people who beft 
knew him, that I am altogether mijpris'd. ShaheJ'peare. 
Pluck indignation on thy head ; 
By the mijprifing of a maid, too virtuous 
For the contempt of empire. Shahefpeare. 
MISPRIS'ION, J'. [from mifprife .] Scorn ; contempt. 
Not in uje: 
Here, take her hand, 
Proud fcornful boy, unworthy this good gift! 
That doth in vile mifprifion fliackle up 
My love, and her deleft. Shahefpeare. 
Miftake; mifconception. Not in nje. —We feel fitch or 
fuch a fentiment within us, and herein is no cheat or mil- 
prijiGn ; it is truly fo, and our fenfe concludes nothing of 
its rife. Glanville's Scepjis. 
Thou haft miftaken quite, 
And laid thy love-juice on fome true-love’s fight; 
Of thy mijprifiofi mull perforce enfue 
Some true love turn’d, and not a falfe turn’d true. Shaliefp. 
In common law, it fignifies negleft, negligence, or over¬ 
fight.— Mifprifion of treafon is the concealment, or not 
difclofing, of known treafon ; for the which the offenders 
are to fuffer imprifonment during the king’s pleafure, 
lofe their goods and the profits of their lands during their 
lives. Mifprifion of felony, is the letting any perfon, 
committed for treafon or felony, or fufpicion of either, 
to go before he be indifted. Coivel. 
Misprisions are, in the acceptation of our law, gene¬ 
rally underftood to be all fuch high offences as are under 
the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon : and 
it is faid, that a mifprifion is contained in every treafon 
and felony whatfoever; and that, if the king fo pleafe, 
the offender may be proceeded againft for the mifprifion 
only. And upon the fame principle, while the jurifdic- 
tion of the ftar-chamber fubfifted, it was held that the 
king might remit a profecution for treafon, and caufe the 
delinquent to be cenfured in that court, merely for a 
high mifdemeanor; as happened in the cafe of Roger 
earl of Rutland, in 4.3 Eliz. who was concerned in the 
earl of Eflex’s rebellion. 
Milprifions are generally divided into two forts: nega¬ 
tive, which confill in the concealment of fomething which 
ought to be revealed; and pojitive, which confift in the 
commiflion of fomething which ought not to be done. 
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