mistone

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ tone

Verb

mistone (third-person singular simple present mistones, present participle mistoning, simple past and past participle mistoned)

1. (transitive) To give a bad or wrong tone to.
   • 1895, Henry Maudsley, The Pathology of Mind, page 541:

     On the whole it were better to misguide a child in knowledge, which it can remedy later, than to mistone it in feeling, for which there is no remedy. A jarring note implanted in its nature might spoil the music of its life […]