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- adjective obsolete
grafted wrongly;misgrafted
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Examples
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Certain passages of his plays, especially the charming dialogue between the Duke and the disguised Viola in Act ii., scene 4, of Twelfth Night, have been cited as involving some reference to the Poet's own case, or as having been suggested by what himself had experienced of the evils resulting from the wedlock of persons “misgraffed in respect of years.”
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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Certain passages of his plays, especially the charming dialogue between the Duke and the disguised Viola in Act ii., scene 4, of _Twelfth Night_, have been cited as involving some reference to the Poet's own case, or as having been suggested by what himself had experienced of the evils resulting from the wedlock of persons "misgraffed in respect of years."
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
revengeance commented on the word misgraffed
It means 'badly matched' and is used by Shakespeare in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
"LYSANDER: Or else misgraffed in respect of years -"
January 12, 2012