misget

English

Etymology

From Middle English misgeten, equivalent to mis- +‎ get.

Verb

misget (third-person singular simple present misgets, present participle misgetting, simple past misgot, past participle misgotten)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     the fruitlesse end
     Of thy vaine boast , and spoile of love misgot

Derived terms

• misgetting
• misgotten

References

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

Anagrams

• SIGMET, stigme