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English
Etymology
From mis- + suit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪsˈsuːt/, /mɪsˈsjuːt/
Verb
missuit (third-person singular simple present missuits, present participle missuiting, simple past and past participle missuited)
- (transitive) To fail to suit.
1852, Sir Francis Bond Head, A Faggot of French Sticks, volume 1, page 121:I now discovered — as in hasty love matches has but too often proved to be the case — that my guide and I were unhappily missuited to each other, and the consequence was we had at least six quarrels […]
1864, Robert Browning, “The Medium”, in Mr. Sludge, ':Each states the law and fact and face o' the thing
Just as he'd have them, finds what he thinks fit,
Is blind to what missuits him, just records
What makes his case out, quite ignores the rest.
1868, Edward Heneage Dering, Florence Danby, page 164:But I think they suit the landscape, atmosphere, limpid sky, massive sunlight, of Italy, as much as they would missuit England, France, and Germany.