Definition of Mishapped

1. mishap [v] - See also: mishap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mishapped

misguiders
misguides
misguiding
misguidingly
mish
mishandle
mishandled
mishandler
mishandlers
mishandles
mishandling
mishandlings
mishanter
mishanters
mishap
mishapped
mishappen
mishappy
mishaps
mishapt
mishcup
mishear
misheard
mishearing
mishears
mishegaas
mishegas
mishegoss

Literary usage of Mishapped

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

1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1903)
"Al-though this thing mishapped have as now, Another tyme it may be wel y-now, 945 Us moste putte our good in aventure; A marchant, parde ! may nat ay endure ..."

2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... For many a man by women hath mishapped. No charge is what so these clerkes saine, Of all hir writing I doe no cure, All hir labour and ..."

3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"So it mishapped he loved a gentlewoman a great deal elder than I. So took he her all this land to her keeping, and all his men to govern; and she brought up ..."

4. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"Come down, traitor knight, said he, and make it good the contrary with thy hands, for it mishapped me the last battle to be hurt of thy hands ; therefore ..."

5. Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed ; with Introductions by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Harrison (1910)
"So it mishapped he loved a gentlewoman a great deal elder than I. So took he her all this land to her keeping, and all his men to govern; and she brought up ..."

6. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Alfred William Pollard (1903)
"... is set all their courage, They say peril to cast is advantage, Namely, of such as men have in been wrapped : For many a man, by woman hath mishapped. ..."

7. The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard (1917)
"... were within the chamber over King Mark, and as it mishapped Sir Tristram found the letter that ..."

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