miscreated
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[edit]Verb
[edit]miscreated
- simple past and past participle of miscreate
Adjective
[edit]miscreated (comparative more miscreated, superlative most miscreated)
- Created unnaturally or wrongly; deformed, misshapen.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- nothing might abash the villein bold, / Ne mortall steele emperce his miscreated mould.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 681–684:
- VVhence and vvhat art thou, execrable ſhape, / That dar'ſt, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miſcreated Front athvvart my vvay / To yonder Gates?