Misdo vs Misgo - What's the difference?
misdo | misgo |
(archaic) To do evil.
To do (something) incorrectly or improperly.
*Milton
*:Afford me place to show what recompense / Towards thee I intend for what I have misdone .
(archaic) To do harm to; to injure, mistreat.
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*:th?ne cam out a duchesse / & Clarysyn the countesse with many ladyes & damoysels / and knelyng bifore kynge Arthur requyred hym for the loue of god to receyue the cyte / & not to take it by assaulte for thenne shold many gyltles be slayne / th?ne the kyng aualyd his vyser with a meke & noble co?tena?ce / & said madame ther shal none of my subgettys mysdoo you ne your maydens
To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
* , The Canterbury Tales , The Parson's Tale:
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. 6, ''Monk Samson :
* 1853 , , The Newcomes , ch. 45:
As verbs the difference between misdo and misgo
is that misdo is to do evil while misgo is to go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.misdo
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- 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 [...].
- 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!
- Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing .