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Middle English

Etymology

Possibly a participle of an unattested verb *mysfelen, from mys- +‎ felen ("to think wrongly; to feel poorly"). By surface analysis, mys- +‎ feling.

Adjective

mysfeling

  1. Foolish, senseless.

Noun

mysfeling

  1. A foolish person.
  2. (medicine, hapax legomenon) Numbness.
    • a1475, Platearis Practica brevis fol. 18v, quoted in 2016, Juhani Norri, Dictionary of Medical VOcabulary in English, 1375-1550: Body Parts, Sickness, Instruments, and Medical Preperations; under "misfeeling"
      Ȝyf be in þe sinewis, þan þe stoppynge & mysfyllynge is in þe ouereste partes, as in þe face.
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Usage notes

Outside the medical sense, this word is apparently only found in John Wycliffe's translation of Ecclesiasticus, and did not survive into Modern English.