Lexicographical Neighbors of Misust
Literary usage of Misust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... Group 15, 3040 (Six-text); Cower, CA ü. 279, 1. u. From Mis- (i) anil Use.
Der. misust, sb., i Hen. IV, ii 43. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1831)
"... it urges often to the most barbarous proceedings, and induces to outrages of
the misust hideous character, merely to satisfy momentary irritation, ..."
3. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"... Which booted nought for prayers nor for threat To hope for to release or
mollify; For aye the more that she did them entreat, The more they him misust, ..."
4. Ohio Legal News (1895)
"The postoffice department at Washington has given a prominent business man of
Columbus the option to pay a sum imposed as a fine for the misust of the ..."
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