misdread

present singular third person misdreads · participle present misdreading · participle past misdreaded · past misdreaded

1. intransitiveobsoletetransitiveTo dread.

   To auoyd a mischiefe which he misdreaded.

   1606, G. Woodcocke, Hist. Iustine, xxxi, 104

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   Needs me then hope, or doth me need misdread?

   1597-8, Bishop Hall, Sat., Defiance to Envie, 25

   and the Romanes likewise misdreaded that the Iewes should inuade their campe.

   1632, Flavius Josephus, The Famous and Memorable Works of Iosephus, etc, page 711

   "Of that I misdreaded," said he, "for full well wist I that either he would rescue her or else he would die in the field; and, to say the truth, he had not been a man of worship had he not rescued the Queen, [...]"

   1926, Ernest Hamilton, Launcelot: A Romance of the Court of King Arthur, page 278