Lexicographical Neighbors of Misact
Literary usage of Misact
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications (1847)
"... and esteem you did misact, did you apprehend and esteem so of it, and ingenuously
confess it; but we cannot be satisfied that we ought to pass it by, ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Let them sink into obscurity that hope to swim in credit by such mis-achievement*.
Fuller, Worthies, Cornwall, I. 306. misact (mis-akf), ct [< mis-1 + act. ..."
3. Collectanea Anglo-poetica: Or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue by Thomas Corser, James Crossley (1867)
"... rests when should run, And ends her lesson hauing now begun : Now misact h
she her stop, then in her song, And doing of her best she still is wrong, ..."
4. The Statutes at Large, the United States from by United States, United States Dept. of State (1891)
"... moreover, for the time being, be subject to etc., as »Rent. all the liabilities
and penalties prescribed by law for the official misact in his place, ..."
5. Laws, Joint Resolutions, and Memorials Passed at the Regular Session of the by Nebraska (1858)
"eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of misact concerning , * .
... . r . , . , . , . , °. . ,., souri into the Union, approved March ..."
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