misraise

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ raise

Verb

misraise (third-person singular simple present misraises, present participle misraising, simple past and past participle misraised)

1. (transitive) To raise or excite unreasonably.
   • 1658, Joseph Hall, The Devout Soul, Or, Rules of Heavenly Devotion Also the Free Prisoner, Or, the Comfort of Restraint:

     mis-raised fury

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “misraise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)