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English
Adjective
misgraffed (not comparable)
- (obsolete) grafted wrongly; misgrafted
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :LYSANDER
Ah me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth:
But either it was different in blood,--
HERMIA
O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low!
LYSANDER
Or else misgraffed in respect of years;--
HERMIA
O spite! too old to be engag'd to young!
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