misgraffed

English

Adjective

misgraffed (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) grafted wrongly; misgrafted
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     LYSANDER
     Ah me! for aught that I could ever read,
     Could ever hear by tale or history,
     The course of true love never did run smooth:
     But either it was different in blood,--
     HERMIA
     O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low!
     LYSANDER
     Or else misgraffed in respect of years;--
     HERMIA
     O spite! too old to be engag'd to young!

References

• “misgraff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.