misgraffed

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English

Adjective

misgraffed (not comparable)

  1. (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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