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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
missay .
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Examples
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If any have missaid thee or spited thee, tell me and I will go with thee to the Chief of Police, who shall do thee justice on him.
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Replied Khalifah, Nay, as thy head liveth, O chief of the Jews, none hath missaid me.
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I keep writing from the feeling that I desperately missaid everything I want to say, writing from the feeling that I desperately missaid everything I want to say, or I've been in the wrong territory.
Steve Silberman's Interview with Robert Hunter from Poetry Flash 2005
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And within a while he overtook the damosel, and anon she missaid him in the foulest manner.
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Alas, she said, fair Beaumains, forgive me all that I have missaid or done against thee.
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"Alas," she said, "good Fair-hands, forgive me all that I have missaid or done against thee."
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler
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And therefore all the missaying that ye missaid me furthered me in my battle, and caused me to think to show and prove myself at the end what I was.
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler
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Alas, she said, fair Beaumains, forgive me all that I have missaid or done against thee.
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And within a while he overtook the damosel, and anon she missaid him in the foulest manner.
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And then the king repented him, and required pardon of him, and put them from him that had so missaid of him, and from their goods and honours, and loved much S. Leonard, so that unnethe the king would not re-establish them again to their estate at the prayers of the holy saint.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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