Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To lead a wrong or vicious life.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To live amiss.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To lead a wrong or vicious life; live wrongly.

Etymologies

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From Middle English misliven, from Old English mislibban ("to lead a bad life"), equivalent to mis- +‎ live.

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