misgo

From Middle English misgon, equivalent to mis- +‎ go.

• (verb) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈɡəʊ/

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• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsɡəʊ/

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misgo (third-person singular simple present misgoes, present participle misgoing, simple past miswent, past participle misgone)

1. (intransitive, now rare or dialect) To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     ther is a ful noble way, and ful covenable, which may not faile to man ne to womman, that thorugh synne hath mysgon fro the right way of Jerusalem celestial [...].

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   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 6, Monk Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

     Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim!

   • 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], chapter 45, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:

     Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing.

misgo (plural misgoes)

1. An error or mistake
   • 1870, Punchinello, volumes 1-2, page 203:

     […] my hand came in contact with a lot of curly hair, and by the shriek which greeted my ear, I was conshus^[sic] that I had made a misgo, and was clutchin a womans water-fall.

   • 1886, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, The Gayworthys, page 205:

     “Esquire! Lucky it didn't make a misgo of it, superscribed like that — Here — it's yourn!”

2. A miscarriage or abortion
   • 1881, Rodney Glisan, Text Book of Modern Midwifery, page 79:

     And when the hemorrhage is checked they will often insist that they have had a "misgo" or abortion.

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