misseek

present singular third person misseeks · participle present misseeking · participle past missought · past missought

1. obsoleteTo seek for wrongly.

   And yet the thing that most is your desire, / Ye do misseek, with more travail and care!

   c. 1527–1542, Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Of the Mean and Sure Estate (written to John Poyntz)”, in Edward Arber, editor, The Surrey & Wyatt anthology, 1509-1547, published 1901, page 7

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   Still this doctrine must be extended further: for thereby we gather generally that God is missought under outward shapes, which have no likeness or affinity to his heavenly glory.

   1840, Jean Calvin, A commentary on the Psalms of David

   Yet, when missought, she is often found, and when unexpected, often obtained; while those who seek for her most diligently, fail the most because they seek her where she is not.

   1841 April, “What is Earthly Happiness”, in The New York Visitor and Lady's Parlor Magazine, page 315

   What missought pleasure or ill-timed errand could have brought them out on such a night?

   1908 March, Aurelius E. Philips, “Victorious Though Defeated”, in The University of Tennessee Magazine, volume 21, number 6, page 147