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Webster 1913 Edition


Misseem

Mis-seem′

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To make a false appearance.
[Obs.]
2.
To misbecome; to be misbecoming.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Misseem

MISSEE'M

,
Verb.
I.
To make a false appearance.
1.
To misbecome.

Definition 2024


misseem

misseem

English

Verb

misseem (third-person singular simple present misseems, present participle misseeming, simple past and past participle misseemed)

  1. (literary) To be unbecoming to; not to suit. [from 15th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
      Ne certes, daughter, that same warlike wize, / I weene, would you misseeme; for ye beene tall, / And large of limbe t'atchieve an hard emprize [...].