misavise

English

Etymology

Verb

misavise (third-person singular simple present misavises, present participle misavising, simple past and past participle misavised)

(obsolete) To misadvise.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  "Faire martiall Mayd,
  Certes ye misavised beene t'upbrayd
  A gentle knight with so unknightly blame

References

“misavize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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