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MISSAY'ING, f. Improper exprefilon; bad words.-- 
It being- the proper fcope of this work in hand, not to rip 
up and relate the mifdoings of his whole life, but to an- 
lwer only and refute the mijjayings of his book. Milton's 
Eicon. 
To MISSEE'M, v. n. To make falie appearance : 
Foul Dueffa meet, 
Who with her witchcraft and mij'eeming fweet 
Inveigled her to foliowher defires unmeet. Spenfer. 
To milbecome.—Never knight I faw in fuch miffeeming 
plight. Spenfer. 
MISS'EL-BIRD, or Missel-thrush. See Turdus 
vifciyorus. 
MISS'ELAND, a river of Africa, which rifes in Dur 
Fur, and, after a courfe of near five hundred miles, lofes 
itfelf in the Lake of Fittre. 
MISS'ELDINE. f. Another name of the miftletoe. 
Phillips. —They bruife the berries of miffelden firft, and 
then wafli them, and afterwards feeth them in water: 
whereof birdlime is made. Barret's Alv. (1580.) 
MISS'ELTOE. See Mistletoe. 
MISSEM'BLANCE, f. Falfe refemblance.—From fuch 
mi fj'emb lances rife many errors. Spelman. 
MISS'EN, a village in Nottinghamlhire, to the north- 
eaft of Bautre, Hands on-the river Idle, which is naviga¬ 
ble thus far, and brings goods to both places, by boats, 
from the Trent. 
MISS'ENDEN (Great), a town of England, in Buck- 
inghamlhire, with 1411 inhabitants: ten miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Aylelbury, and thirty-one weft-north-weft 
of London. 
MISS'ENDEN (Little), a village between the above 
and Ameriham. 
To MISSER'VE, v. a. To ferve unfaithfully; to ferve 
dilhoneftly.—You fliall enquire whether the good ilgtute 
be obferved, whereby a man may have that hethinketh he 
hath, and not be abufed or mijjerved in that he buys. 
Bacon's Charge at the Sefjions of the Verge. —Great men, 
who mijjerved their country, were fined very highly. Ar- 
buthnot on Coins. 
MISSER'VING, f. The aft of ferving unfaithfully. 
MISSEVIR'IA. See Mesem'bria. 
To MISSHA'PE, v. a. To lhape ill ; to form ill ; to de¬ 
form.—We ought not to believe that the banks of the 
ocean are really deformed, becaufe they have not the form 
of a regular bulwark ; nor that the mountains are mif- 
jhapen, becaufe they are not exaft pyramids or cones. 
Bentley's Sermons. 
Some figures monftrous and misjhap'd appear 
Confider’d firngly, or beheld too near, 
Which, but proportion’d to their fite or place, 
Due diftance reconciles to form and grace. Pope. 
In Shakefpeare, perhaps, it once fignifies ill direfted : as, 
to Jhape a courfe: 
Thy wit, that ornament to lhape and love, 
Misjhapen in the conduft of them both, 
Like powder in a Ikill-lefs foldier’s fialk, 
I fet on fire. Romeo and Juliet. 
MIS-SHE'ATHED, part. adj. Wrongly Iheathed : 
This dagger hath milla’en (for lo ! his houfe 
Lies empty on the back of Montague) 
And is mis-Jheathed in my daughter’s bofom. Shahefpeare. 
MISSIGUIN'NIPI LA'KE, a lake of Canada: one 
hundred miles north of Quebec. Lat. 48. 3. N. Ion. 71. 
30. W. 
MISSIGUIN'NIPI RIV'ER, a river of Canada, which 
runs into the Saguenay in lat. 48.22. N. lon.71.10. W. 
MISS'ILE, adj. [yniffilis, Lat.] Thrown by the hand ; 
ilriking at diftance.—We bend the bow, or wing the 
mi file dart. Pope. 
MISSIL'IA,/ [from mittere, Lat. to throw or let loofe.] 
Among the Romans, a name given to largefles thrown 
among the people on occafion of games and ihovvs, fuch as 
linallgold or filver coins, fweetmeats ; and fometimes ani¬ 
mals, as (heep, oxen, deer, &c. were let loofe to be carried 
oil' by the people. 
MISSFMA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon: 
twenty miles north of Amanguchi. 
MISS'ING, The aft of palling over. 
MISS'INGLY, adv. [from miffing.'] After intervals.— 
I have mifjingly noted, he is of late much retired from 
court. Shakejpe.are's Winter's Tale. 
MISS'IO, f. Among the Romans, was a full difeharge 
given to a loldier after twenty years fervice; and differed 
from the exaudloratio, which was a difeharge from duty 
after feventeen years fervice. Every foldier had a right 
to claim his mi[jio at the end of twenty years. 
MISS'ION, /’. [ mifio , Lat.] Commiflion ; the ftate of 
being fent by iupreme authority.—The divine authority 
of our miffion, and the powers veiled in us by the high 
prieft of our profeflion, Chrift Jelus, are publickly dif- 
puted and denied. Atterhiry. 
Her fon, tracing the defart wild, 
All his great work to come before him fet; 
How to begin, how to accomplilh bell, 
His end of being on earth, and inifjion high. Milton. 
Perfons fent on any account, ufually to propagate reli¬ 
gion.—In thefe Ihips there lhould be a miffion of three of 
the brethren of Solomon’s houfe, to give us knowledge of 
the fciences, manufaftures, and inventions, of all the 
world, and bring us books and patterns; and that the 
brethren lhould Hay abroad till the new mifjion. Bacon's 
New Atlantis. — Dilmilfion ; difeharge. Not in ufe. —In 
Cselar’s army, fomewhat the loldiers would have had, yet 
only demanded a mijfion or difeharge, though with no in¬ 
tention it lhould be granted, but thought to wrench him 
to their other defires ; whereupon with one cry they alked 
miffion. Bacon's Apophthegms. —Faftion; party. Notinuje: 
Glorious deeds, in thefe fields of late, 
Made emulous mijfwns ’mongft the gods themfelves. 
And drove great Mars to faftion. Shakefpeare. 
MISS'ION, the name of a congregation of prielts and 
laymen, inilituted by Vincent de Paul, and confirmed, in 
1632, by pope Urban VIII. under the title of “ Priells of 
the Congregation of the Milfion.” Thefe profefs to make 
it their whole bulinefs to alfift the poor people in the 
country; and to this purpofe they oblige themfelves ne¬ 
ver to preach,'or adminiller any of the facraments, in any 
town where there is an archbilhop, billiop, or provincial, 
refiding. The priells of the million were alio intrufted 
with the direftion and of a female order, called “ Virgins 
of Love, or Daughters of Charity,” whole office it was to 
adminiller affiltance and relief to indigent perfons, who 
were confined to their beds by ficknefs and infirmity. 
This order was founded by a noble virgin, whole name 
„was Louifa le Gras, and received, in the year 1660, the 
approbation of pope Clement IX. They are fettled in 
moll provinces of France, Italy, Germany, and in Poland. 
At Paris they have a feminary, which they call the Fo¬ 
reign Miffion, where youth are bred up, and qualified for 
milfions abroad. 
Mission is all’o ufed in general for an eftablilhment of 
people zealous for the glory of God, and the lalvation of 
fouls; who go and preach the gofpel in remote countries 
and among infidels. There are millions in the Eaft as 
well as in the Weft Indies. Among the Romanills, the 
religious orders of St. Dominic, St. Francis, St. Auguf- 
tine, and the Jefuits, have millions in the Levant, Ame¬ 
rica, See. The Jefuits had alfo miffions in China, and all 
other parts of the globe where they have been able to pe¬ 
netrate. See Jesuit, vol.x. p. 787, 8. 
There have been alfo feveral Proteftant miffions, for 
diffufing the light of Chriftianity through the benighted 
regions of Afia and America. Of this kind was the Da- 
nilh miffion, planned by Frederic IV. in 1706. And the 
liberality 
