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miscreated

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Verb

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miscreated

  1. simple past and past participle of miscreate

Adjective

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miscreated (comparative more miscreated, superlative most miscreated)

  1. 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?

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