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Definition of Mislive
1. v. i. To live amiss.
Definition of Mislive
1. Verb. To live wrongly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mislive
1. to live a bad life [v -LIVED, -LIVING, -LIVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mislive
Literary usage of Mislive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"2. [Prov. Eng. or Scotch in all senses.] mislive (mis-liv'),r. ... [< ME.
misil/tinge; verbal n. of mislive, ».] Evil course of life. ..."
2. The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets by Charles Mackay (1874)
"If he mislive in lewdness and lust. Little bootes all the wealth and the trust,
That his father left by inheritance. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1819)
"Tenacious in the support of the mislive freedom of his country, he grounded his
arguments of liberty as a divine and inalienable right, ..."
4. Jaarboeken van het koningrijk der Nederlanden by Martinus Stuart (1816)
"... December werd '"""•"' gelezen de volgende mislive van ZM EDEL ... mislive ..."
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