Definition of Mismetre

1. to spoil the metre of [v MISMETRED, MISMETRING, MISMETRES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mismetre

mismating
mismean
mismeasure
mismeasured
mismeasurement
mismeasurements
mismeasures
mismeasuring
mismeet
mismeeting
mismeets
mismet
mismeter
mismetered
mismetering
mismetre (current term)
mismetred
mismetres
mismigrated
mismove
mismoved
mismoves
mismoving
misname
misnamed
misnames
misnaming
misnomer
misnomered
misnomering

Literary usage of Mismetre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of English Literature by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett (1902)
"... down curses upon that unworthy servant, for spoiling good verses by bad copying, and in Troilus he beseeches his readers not to "mismetre" his book. ..."

2. My Study Windows by James Russell Lowell (1913)
"... tha Ne the mismetre for defant of tong, And redde whereso thou be or elle's song That thou be understood God I beseech." Yet more. ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"... Ne thee mismetre for defant of tongue,' " &c. How Speght made up the measure to his own satisfaction does not appear ; nor what those methods of ..."

4. My Study Windows by James Russell Lowell (1876)
"... the Ne the mismetre for defaut of long, And redde whereso thou be or elles song That thou be understood God I beseech." Yet more. ..."

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