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Definition of Mismate
1. Verb. Provide with an unsuitable mate.
Definition of Mismate
1. v. t. To mate wrongly or unsuitably; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.
Definition of Mismate
1. Verb. (transitive) To mate wrongly or unsuitably; mismatch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mismate
1. to mate unsuitably [v -MATED, -MATING, -MATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mismate
Literary usage of Mismate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tobacco Leaf, Its Culture and Cure, Marketing and Manufacture: A Practical by Joseph Buckner Killebrew, Herbert Myrick (1897)
"The best rule to observe for assorting tobacco is not to mismate the leaves in
a bundle, and not to mismate the bundles in a bulk or hogshead. ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1908)
"... in the indiscretion of early years, who turned out after all to be a mismate—to
make a rule when life is too large and complex to be governed by rules. ..."
3. The Passing of the Great Race; Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921)
"One of the greatest difficulties in classifying man is his perverse predisposition
to mismate. This is a matter of daily observation, especially among the ..."
4. Samuel Sewall and the World He Lived in by Nathan Henry Chamberlain (1897)
"... glances at some of the old-time domestic tragedies now stilled in the grave
of time, which repeat themselves so long as men mismate and husband and wife ..."
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