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Amiss vs Misconsecrate - What's the difference?

amiss | misconsecrate |

As an adjective amiss

is wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

As an adverb amiss

is mistakenly.

As a noun amiss

is fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.

As a verb misconsecrate is

to consecrate amiss.

amiss

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
    • He suspected something was amiss .
    Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.
  • * Wollaston
    • His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) Mistakenly
  • (archaic) Astray
  • (archaic) Wrongly.

    • Noun

    (amisses)
  • (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
    • Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis [...].
  • * 1635 , John Donne, "His parting from her":
    • Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss [...].

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    misconsecrate

    English

    Verb

    (misconsecrat)
  • To consecrate amiss.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • yet didst thou find it better, to make up the breaches of that altar, which was misconsecrated to the service of thy God, than to make use of that pile, which was idolatrously devoted to a false god.