misgo

From Middle English misgon, equivalent to mis- +‎ go.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈɡəʊ/

misgo (third-person singular simple present misgoes, present participle misgoing, simple past miswent, past participle misgone)

1. (intransitive, now rare or dialectal) To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale:

     ther is a ful noble way, and ful covenable, which may not faile to man ne to womman, that thorugh synne hath mysgon fro the right way of Jerusalem celestial [...].

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 6, Monk Samson:

     Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim!

   • 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, ch. 45:

     Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing.

misgo (plural misgoes)

1. An error or mistake
   • 1870, Punchinello, page 203:

     […] my hand came in contact with a lot of curly hair, and by the shriek which greeted my ear, I was conshus^[sic] that I had made a misgo, and was clutchin a womans water-fall.

   • 1886, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, The Gayworthys, page 205:

     “Esquire! Lucky it didn't make a misgo of it, superscribed like that — Here — it's yourn!”

2. A miscarriage or abortion
   • 1881, Rodney Glisan, Text Book of Modern Midwifery, page 79:

     And when the hemorrhage is checked they will often insist that they have had a "misgo" or abortion.

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