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Webster 1913 Edition


Misfare

Mis-fare′

,
Verb.
I.
[AS.
misfaran
.]
To fare ill.
[Obs.]
Noun.
Misfortune.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Misfare

MISFA'RE

,
Noun.
Ill fare; misfortune.

Definition 2024


misfare

misfare

English

Verb

misfare (third-person singular simple present misfares, present participle misfaring, simple past and past participle misfared)

  1. (obsolete) To go astray; to transgress, to sin. [9th-16th c.]
  2. (now Scotland) To fare badly; to be unlucky. [from 10th c.]

Noun

misfare (uncountable)

  1. (now rare, archaic) Misfortune, ill fate. [from 14th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
      Whereto great comfort in her sad misfare / Was Amoret, companion of her care […].

Italian

Etymology

mis- + fare

Verb

misfare

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) to do harm

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