Mistrain vs Distrain - What's the difference?
mistrain | distrain |
To draw (something) badly or in the wrong direction.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
*:For she by force is still fro me detayned, / And with corruptfull brybes is to untruth mis-trayned . (label) To squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.
*, VII:
*:But when he heard her answeres loth, he knew / Some secret sorrow did her heart distraine .
* 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XII, xii:
*:Thus spake the Prince, and gently 'gan distrain / Now him, now her, between his friendly arms.
To force (someone) to do something by seizing their property.
To seize somebody's property in place of, or to force, payment of a debt.
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(label) To pull off, tear apart.
*, II.xii:
*:For that same net so cunningly was wound, / That neither guile, nor force might it distraine .