misgo

present singular third person misgoes · participle present misgoing · past miswent · participle past misgone

1. archaicdialectalintransitiveTo go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.

   Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing.

   1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], chapter 45, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC

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   Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim!

   1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 6, Monk Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

plural misgoes

1. An error or mistake

   “Esquire! Lucky it didn't make a misgo of it, superscribed like that — Here — it's yourn!”

   1886, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, The Gayworthys, page 205

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   […] my hand came in contact with a lot of curly hair, and by the shriek which greeted my ear, I was conshus^([sic]) that I had made a misgo, and was clutchin a womans water-fall.

   1870, Punchinello, volumes 1-2, page 203

2. A miscarriage or abortion

   And when the hemorrhage is checked they will often insist that they have had a "misgo" or abortion.

   1881, Rodney Glisan, Text Book of Modern Midwifery, page 79