MISAIMED.a. (mis and aim.) Not aimed rightly (Spenser). MISANTHROPE. MISANTHROPOS. S. (misanthrope, Fr. μoar&gwños.) A hater of mankind (Shakspeare). MISANTHROPY. s. (misanthropie, Fr.) Hatred of mankind. MISAPPLICATION. s. (mis and application.) Application to a wrong purpose (Brown). To MISAPPLY. v. a. (mis and apply.) To apply to wrong purposes (Howel). To MISAPPREHEND. v. a. (mis and apprehend.) Not to uuderstand rightly (Locke). MISAPPREHENSION. s. (mis and apprehension.) Mistake; not right apprehension. To MISASCRIBE. v. u. (mis and ascribe.) To ascribe falsely (Boyle). To MISASSIGN. v. a. (mis and assign.) To assign erroneously (Boyle). To MISBECOME. v. a. (mis and become.) Not to become; to be unseemly; not to suit (Sidney). MISBEGOT. MISBEGOTTEN. a. (begot or begotten with mis.) Unlawfully or irregularly begotten (Dryden). To MISBEHAVE. v. n. (mis and behave.) To act ill or improperly (Young). MISBEHAVED. a. (mis and behaved.) Untaught; ill-bred; uncivil (Shakspeare). MISBEHAVIOUR. s. (mis and behaiour.) Ill conduct; bad practice (Addison). MISBELIEF. s. (mis and belief.) False religion; a wrong belief. MISBELIEVER. s. (mis and believer.) One that holds a false religion, or believes wrongly (Dryden). To MISCA L. v. a. (mis and call.) To name improperly (Glanville) To ISCALCULATE. v. a. (mis and calculate.) To reckon wrong (Arbuthnot). MISCARRIAGE. s. (mis and carriage.). 1. Unhappy event of an undertaking; failure, ill conduct (Rogers). 2. Abortion; act of bringing forth before the time (Graunt). To MISCA'RRY. v. n. (mis and carry.) 1. To fail; not to have the intended event; not to succeed (Shakspeare). 2. To have an abortion (Pope). To MISCAST. v. a. (mis and cast.) To take a wrong account of (Brown). MISCELLANE. s. (miscellaneus, Latin.) Mixed corn: as, wheat and rye (Bacon). MISCELLANEOUS. a. (miscellaneus, Lat.) Mingled; composed of various kinds. (Brown). MISCELLANEÆ, in botany, the name of the fifty-fourth order in Linnæus's Fragments of a Natural Method, consisting of plants, which not being connected together by numerous relations, in their habit and structure, as the natural families, are assembled into one head, under the general title of miscellaneous plants. MISCELLANEOUSNESS. s. (from miscellaneous.) Composition of various kinds. MISCELLANY. a. (miscellaneus, Latin.) Mixed of various kinds (Bacon). M'ISCELLANY. s. A mass formed out of various kinds (Pope). MISCHANCE. s. (mis and chance.) Ill luck; ill fortune; misfortune; mishap (South). MISCHIEF. s. (meschef, old French.) 1. Harm; hurt; whatever is ill and injuriously done (Rowe). 2. Ill consequence; vexatious affair (Swift). To MISCHIEF. v. a. (from the noun.) To hurt; to harm; to injure (Sprat). MISCHIEFMAKER. s. (from mischief and make.) One who causes mischief. MISCHIEVOUS. a. (from mischief.) 1. Harmful; hurtful; destructive; noxious; pernicious; injurious; wicked (South). 2. Spiteful; malicious (Ainsworth). MISCHIEVOUSLY. ad. Noxiously; hurtfully; wickedly (Dryden). MISCHIEVOUSNESS. s. Hurtfulness; perniciousness; wickedness (South). MISCHNA, or MISNA, from w, iteravit, a part of the Jewish Talmud. The Mischna contains the text; and the Gemara, which is the second part of the Talmud, contains the commentaries; so that the Gemara is, as it were, a glossary on the Mischna. The Mischna consists of various traditions of the Jews, and of explanations of several passages of scripture: these traditions, serving as an explication of the written law, and sup plement to it, are said to have been delivered to Moses during the time of his abode on the mount; which he afterwards communicated to Aaron, Eleazer, and his servant Joshua. By these they were transmitted to the seventy elders, by them to the prophets, who communicated them to the men of the great sanhedrim, from whom the wise men of Jerusalem and Babylon received them. According to Prideaux's account, they passed from Jeremiah གཞིས་ ૧૦૫ પંચ A vas wynagogue; so that the second century, se empire of Antoninus Nevessary to commit these. wwwag, more especially as their www.cably suffered under Adrian, bear schools had been dissolved, ved men cut off; and, therefore, echod of preserving their traditions Rabbi Judah, on this occasion, cor of the school at Tiberias, and preof the sanhedrim in that place, underwask the work, and compiled it in six books, consisting of several tracts, which altogeer make up the number of sixty-three. (Prid. Connect, vol. ii. p. 468, &c. ed. 9.) This karned author computes that the Mischna was composed about the 150th year of our Lord; but Dr. Lightfoot says, that Rabbi Judah compiled the Mischna about the year of Christ 190, in the latter end of the reign of Commodus; or, as some compute, in the year of Christ 220. Dr. Lardner is of opinion that this work could not have been finished before the year 190, or later. (Collect. of Jewish and Heathen Testimonies, &c. vol. i. p. 178.) Thus the book called the Mischna was formed; a book which the Jews have generally received with the greatest veneration. The original has been published, with a Latin translation, by Surenhusius, with notes of his own, and others from the learned Maimonides, &c. in 6 vols. fol. Amsterdam, A. D. 1698-1703. See TALMUD. It is written in a much purer style, and is not near so full of dreams and visions as the Gemara. MISCIBLE. a. (from misceo, Lat.) Possible to be mingled (Arbuthnot), MISCITATION. s. (mis and citation.) Unfair or false quotation (Collier). To MISCITE. v. a. (mis and cite.) To quote wrong. MISCLAIM. s. (mis and claim.) Mistaken claim (Bacon). MISCOMPUTATION. s. (mis and computation.) False reckoning (Clarendon). MISCONCEIT. MISCONCEPTION. S. (mis and conceit, and conception.) False opinion: wrong notion (Hooker). MISCONCEIVE. v. a. (mis and conceive.) to have a false notion of (Shak.). To m SCONDUCT. s. (mis and conduct.) III scoavsour; ill management (Rogers). MISCONDUCT. v. a. (mis and conduct.) To manage amiss; to carry on wrong. MISCONJECTURE. s. (mis and conjecture.) A wrong guess (Brown). MISCONSTRUCTION. s. (mis and construction.) Wrong interpretation of words or things. To MISCONSTRUE. v. a. (mis and construe.) To interpret wrong (Raleigh). To MISCOUNT, v. a. (mescounter, Fr. mis and count.) To reckon wrong (Shak.). MISCREANCE. MI'S CREANCY. s. (from mescreance, French.) Unbelief; false faith; adherence to a false religion (Swift). MISCREANT. s. (mescreant, French.) 1. One that holds a false faith; one who be lieves in false gods (Hooker). 2. A vile wretch (Addison). MISCREATE. MISCREA'TED. a. (mis and create.) Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; made as by a blunder of nature (Shakspeare). MISDE'ED. s. (mis and deed.) Evil action. (Shakspeare). To MISDE/EM. v. a. (mis and deem.) To judge ill of; to mistake (Davies). To MISDEMEAN. v. a. (mis and demean.) To behave ill (Shakspeare). MISDEMEANOUR, an offence, or fault, particularly when in the execution of an office. A crime, or misdemeanour, says judge Blackstone, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crinies and misdemeanours; which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms; though, in common usage, the word crimes is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more atrocious dye; while smaller faults, and omissions of less consequence, are comprized under the gentler name of misdemeanours only. High crimes and misdemeanours denote offences of a heinous nature, naxt to high treason. To MISDO. v. a. (mis and do.) To do wrong; to commit a crime (Milton). To MISDO'. v. n. To commit faults (Dryden). : MISDO'ER. s. (from misdo.) An offender; a criminal a malefactor (Spenser). MISDOING. s. (from misdo.) Offence ; deviation from right (L'Estrange). To MISDOUBT. v. a. (mis and doubt.) To suspect of deceit or danger (Dryden). MISDOUBT. S. (mis and doubt.) 1. Suspicion of crime or danger (Shakspeare). 2. Irresolution; hesitation (Shakspeare). MISE, a French term, literally denoting expence, or disbursement: it is used in our law-books in divers acceptations. Sometimes for the profits of lands; sometimes for taxes, or taillages; and sometimes for expences, or costs: as, pro misis et custagiis, for costs and charges in the entries of judg ments, &c. MISE more peculiarly denotes an honorary gift, or customary present, wherewith the people of Wales used to salute every new king and prince of Wales at their entrance upon the principality." Anciently, the mise was given in cattle, wine, corn, &c. for the support of the prince's family; but when that dominion was annexed to the English crown, the gift was changed into money. The county of Flint paid two thousand marks, &c. for their mise. The county of Chester also paid a mise or tribute of five thousand marks at the change of every owner of the said earldom, for enjoying the privileges of that palatinate. At Chester they have a mise-book, wherein every town and village in the county is rated what to pay towards the mise. MISE is also used in speaking of a writ of right. What in other actions is called an issue, in a writ of right is called a mise or me: so that to join the mise upon the meer, is as much as to say, to join issue on the meer right, i. e. to join upon this point, whether has the more right, the tenant or demand ant. Yet even in a writ of right, if a collateral point be tried, it is there called an issue, not a mise. MISE is also sometimes used corruptly for mease, a messuage or tenement. To MISEMPLOY. v. a. (mis and employ.) To use to wrong purposes (Atterbury). MISEMPLOYMENT. s. (mis and employment.) Improper application (Hale). MISEN, MISSON, or MIZEN, in a ship, denotes either the mast, or sail of that name; but at sea they always mean the sail when the word misen is used. This is the hindmost of the fixed sails of a ship, extended sometimes by a gaff, and sometimes by a yard, which crosses the mast obliquely. MISER. s. (miser, Latin.) 1. A wretched person: not in use (Sidney). 2. A wretch; a mean fellow: not in use (Shakspeare). 3. A wretch covetous to extremity (Otway). MISERABLE. a. (miserable, French.) 1. Unhappy; calamitous; wretched (South). 2. Wretched; worthless (Job). 3. Culpably parsimonious; stingy. MISERABLENESS. s. (from miserable.) State of misery. MISERABLY. ad. (from miserable.) 1. Unhappily; calamitously (South). 2. Wretchedly meanly (Sidney). 3. Covetously (Ainsworth). MISERY. s. (miseria, Latin.) 1. Wretchedness; unhappiness (Locke). 2. Calamity; misfortune (Shakspeare). 3. (from miser.) Covetousness; avarice (Wotton). To MISFASHION. v. a. (mis and fashion.) To form wrong (Hakewill). MISFORTUNE. s. (mis and fortune.) Calamity; il luck; want of good fortune (Addison). To MISGIVE. v. a. (mis and give.) To fill with doubt; deprive of confidence (Shak.). To MISGO'VERN. v. a. (mis and govern.) To govern ill; to administer unfaithfully (Kn.). MÍSGOVERNMENT. s. 1. Ill administration of public affairs (Ral.). 2. Ill management (Taylor). 3. Irregularity; inordinate behaviour (Shakspeare). MISGUIDANCE. s. (mis and guidance.) False direction (South). To MISGUIDE. v. a. (mis and guide.) To direct ill; to lead the wrong way (Locke), MISHA P. s. (mis and hap.) Ill chance; ill luck; calamity (Spenser). MI'SHMASH. s. Ains. A low word. A mingle. To MISINFER. v. a. (mis and infer.) To infer wrong (Hooker). To MISINFO'RM. v. a. (mis and inform.) To deceive by false accounts (Milton). MISINFORMATION.s.(from misinform.) False intelligence; false accounts (South). To MISINTERPRET. v. a. (mis and interpret.) To explain to a wrong sense (Ben Jonson). To MISJOIN. v. a. (mis and join.) To join unfitly or improperly (Dryden.) MISITRA, a town of European Turkey, in the Morea; defended by a castle, on a rock, which is said to be impregnable. It was the ancient Sparta. The Christians have several churches, one among them called Perileptos, said to be one of the most beautiful in the world. The Jews have three synagogues; and the Turks have a superb mosque and hospital. It is the see of a Greek archbishop, and the residence of a bey, an aga, and a way wode, and contains 12,000 inhabitants: forty miles S.S.W. Argos, forty E.N.E. Navarin, and sixty S. Corinth. Lon. 22. 30 E. Lat. 37. 6 N. To MISJUDGE. v. n. (mis and judge.) To form false opinious; to judge ill (Pope). To MISLAY. v. n. (mis and lay.) To lay in a wrong place (Dryden). MISLA YER. s. (from mislay.) One that puts in the wrong place (Bacon). To MI'SLE. v. n. (from mist.) To rain in imperceptible drops (Derham). To MISLEAD. v. a. (mis and lead.) To guide a wrong way; to betray to mischief or mistake (Bacon). MISLEADER. s. (from mislead.) One that leads to ill (Shakspeare). MISLEN. s. (corrupted from miscellane.) Mixed corn: as, wheat and rye (Morti mer). MISLETOE, in botany. See VISCUM. To MISLIKE. v. a. (mis and like.) To dis approve; to be not pleased with (Herbert). MISLIKE. S. (from the verb). Disappro bation; dislike (Fairfax). MISLI'KER. s. (from mislike.) One that disapproves (Ascham). To MISLIVE. v. n. (mis and live.) To live ill (Spenser). To MISMA'NAGE. v. a. (mis and manage.) To manage ill (Locke). MISMANAGEMENT. (s. mis and ma nagement.) Ill management; ill conduct (Pope). MISMATCH. v. a. (mis and match.) To match unsuitably (Southern). To MISNA'ME. v. a. (mis and name.) To call by the wrong name (Boyle).. MISNOMER, in law, a misnaming or mistaking a person's name. The Christian name of a person should always be perfect; but the law is not so strict in regard to surnames, a small mistake in which will be dispensed with to make good a contract, and support the act of the party. To MISOBSERVE. v. a. (mis and observe.) Not to observe accurately (Locke). MISO'GAMIST. s. (μçï and y.) A marriage hater. MISOGYNY. s. (po and yʊr.) Hatred of women. To MISO'RDER. v. a. (mis and order.) To conduct ill; to manage irregularly (Shaks.). MISO'RDER. s. (from the verb.) Irregularity; disorderly proceedings (Camden). MISORDERLY. a. (from misorder.) Irregularly; unlawful (Ascham). To MISPEND. v. a. (mis and spend.) To spend ill; to waste; to consume to no purpose; to throw away (Ben Jonson). MISPENDER. s. (from mispend.) One who spends ill or prodigally (Norris). MISPERSUASIOŇ. s. (mis and persuasion.) Wrong notion; false opinion (Decay of Piety). MISPICKEL, in mineralogy. See FERRUM and ARSENICUM. To MISPLACE. v. a. (mis and place.) To put in a wrong place (South). 1. To To MISPRISE. v. a. Obsolete. mistake (Shakspeare). 2. To slight; to scorn; to despise (Shakspeare). 1. MISPRI'SION. s. (from misprise.) Scorn; contempt: not in use (Shakspeare). 2. Mistake; misconception: not in use (Gla.) 3. (In cominon law.) Neglect, negligence, or oversight. Misprision of treason, is the concealment of known treason. Misprision of felony, is the letting any person, committed for felony, to go before he be indicted (Cowell). To MISPROPORTION. v. a. (mis and proportion.) To join without due proportion. MISPROUĎ. a. (mis and proud.) Vitiously proud: obsolete (Shakspeare). To MISQUOTE. v. a (mis and quote.) To quote falsely (Shakspeare). To MISREĆITE. v. a. (mis and recite.) To recite not according to the truth (Bramhall). To MISRECKON. v. a. (mis and reckon.) To reckon wrong; to compute wrong (Swift). To MISRELATE. v. a. (mis and relate.) To relate inaccurately or falsely (Boyle). MISRELATION. s. (from misrelate.) False or inaccurate narrative (Bramhall). To MISREMEMBER. v. a. (mis and remember.) To mistake by trusting to memory (Boyle) To MISREPORT. v. a. (mis and report.) To give a false account of (Hooker). MISREPORT. s. False account; false and malicious representation (South). To MISREPRESENT. v. a. (mis and represent.) To represent not as it is; to falsify to disadvantage (Swift). MISREPRESENTATION. s. 1. The act of misrepresenting (Swift). 2. Account maliciously false (Atterbury). MISRU'LE. s. (mis and rule.) Tumult; confusion; revel; unjust domination (Thoms). MISS. s. (contracted from mistress.) 1. The term of honour to a young girl (Swift). 2. A strumpet; a concubine (Dryden). To Miss. v. a. preter. missed; part. missed or mist. (missen, Dutch.) 1. Not to hit by the mind; to mistake (Milton). 2. Not to hit by manual aim (Pope). 3. To fail of obtaining (Dryden). 4. To discover something to be unexpectedly wanting (Sidney). 5. To be without (Shakspeare). 6. To omit (Prior). 7. To perceive want of (South). To Miss. v. n. 1. To fly wide; not to hit (Waller). 2. Not to succeed (Bacon). 3. To fail; to mistake. 4. To be lost; to be wanting (Milton). 5. To miscarry; to fail (Milton). 6. To fail to obtain, learn, or find (Atterbury). Miss. s. (from the verb.) 1. Loss; want (Locke). 2. Mistake; errour (Ascham). 3. Hurt; harm: obsolete (Spenser). MISSAL. s. (missale, Lat. missel, Fr.) The mass book (Stilling fleet). To MISSA'Y. v. n. (mis and say.) To say ill or wrong (Hakewill). To MISSE EM. v. n. (mis and seem.) T. To make false appearance (Spenser). 2. To misbecome: obsolete both (Spenser). MISSEL BIRD, a species of TURDUS. To MISSERVE. v. a. (mis and serve.) To serve unfaithfully (Arbuthnot). To MISSHAPE. v. a. (mis and shape.) To shape ill; to form ill; to deform (Bentley). MISSILE. a. (missilis, Latin.) Thrown by the hand; striking at distance (Pope). MISSIO, among the Romans, was a full discharge given to a soldier after twenty years service, and differed from the exauctoratio, which was a discharge from duty after seventeen years service. Every soldier had a right to claim his missio at the end of twenty years. MISSION. s. (missio, Latin.) 1. Commission; the state of being sent by supreme authority (Milton. Atterbury). 2. Persons sent on any account, usually to propagate religion (Bacon). 3. Dismission; discharge: not in use (Bacon). 4. Faction; party: not in use (Shakspeare). MISSION, in theology, denotes a power or commission to preach the gospel. Jesus Christ gave his disciples their mission in these words, Go and teach all nations, &c." The Romanists reproach the Protestants, that their ministers have no mission; as not being authorised in the exercise of their ministry, either by an uninterrupted succession from the apostles, or by miracles, or by any extraordinary proof of a vocation. Many among us deny any other mission nés cessary for the ministry than the talents necessary to discharge it. MISSION is also used for an establishment of people zealous for the glory of God, and the salva, tion of souls; who go and preach the gospel in remote countries and among infidels. There are missions in the East, as well as in the West Indies. Among the Romanists, the religious orders of St. Dominic, St. Francis, St. Augustine, and the Jesuits, have missions in the Levant, America, &c. The Jesuits have had missions in China, and all ether parts of the globe, where they have been able to penetrate. The Mendicants abound in missions. There have been also several Protestant missions for difusing the light of Christianity through the benighted regions of Asia and America. Of this kind has been the Danish mission, planned by Frederic IV. in 1706. And the liberality of private benefactors in our own country has been also extended to the support of missionaries among the Indians in America, &c. The first Protestant mission in India was sent eat by the Protestant churches of Denmark and Germany, being planned by Frederic IV. as just mentioned. Their two first missionaries, Bartho Imew Ziegenbalgh and Henry Plutscho, arrived in india in July 1706: and the Hindoo churches celebrated a jubilee in July 1806, in commemoratin of that happy event. During the whole of the last century Providence favoured them with a succession of pious and learned men, educated at the German universities; among whom was the venerable Schwartz, called the apostle of the east; and others not much inferior to him; men whose names are scarcely known in this country, but who are as famous among the Hindoos as Wickliffe and Luther are among us. The ministry of these gimen was blessed in many provinces in the south of ladia to the conversion of more than 18,000 Hinions; and the bounds of their churches are extealing unto this day. The language of the country is called the Tamul; and the first translation of the Bible, in that language, was made about 100 years Like Wickliffe's Bible with us, it became the feher of many versions, and, after a succession of improved editions, it is now considered by the Brahmirs themselves (like Luther's Bible in German) as the classical standard of the Tamul tongue. The records of this mission are published in upwards of 30 quarto vols, and some interesting extracts from them have been published, during the last 15 months, in the Christian Observer. "The particular Baptist society for propagating the Gospel among the heathens." Its origin was from Mr. Carey,whoprinted a pamphlet with a view to encourage the sending forth missionaries. His heart appears to have been set upon the conversion of the heathen for several years, and his conversations, prayers, and sermons, were mostly accompanied with something relative to this subject. Ile possessed, at the same time, a great thirst for geogra phical knowledge, and a remarkable aptitude at learning languages, so that his most intimate friends were, for several years past, induced to think that he was formed for some such undertaking. His desire that a society might be established amongst his connexions for the propagation of the Gospel, among the heathen, and that be might have a share in that important service, continued, and increased, till, at length, in the year 1791, being at a meeting of ministers at Clipstone in Northamptonshire, he proposed a question, “Whether it were not practicable, and our bounden duty, to attempt somewhat toward spreading the Gospel in the heathen world?" The chief thing then agreed upon was to desire Mr. Carey to draw up his thoughts on the subject and publish them. At the annual Baptist association at Nottingham, May 21, 1792, a resolution was made, " that a plan be prepared against the next meeting of ministers at Kettering, for forming a society among the Baptists for propagating the Gospel among the heathens." At the meeting at Kettering, October 2, 1792, a foundation for such a society was laid, and several resolutions agreed to. At a second meeting of the primary society at Northampton, October 31, 1792, Mr. Pearce of Birmingham gave information, that having mentioned the business to his friends, they had generously contributed seventy pounds to assist in the noble design. At a third mecting at Northampton, November 13, 1792, some farther resolutions were entered into, and an address of the society to their fellow Christians at large was agreed to be prepared, printed, and circulated. On January 10, 1793, a committee meeting was held at Kettering, when the committee being of opinion that a door was opened in the East Indies, Mr. Carey was asked, whether he was inclined to go, who answered in the affirmative. The object now was to calculate the expences, and obtain the means of defraying them. This was soon accomplished, for no sconer was the design made known than cheerful and liberal contributions came from different parts of the kingdom. The The Dutch in the island of Ceylon, and other of church at Leicester, though greatly affected by the ther East India settlements, have had still more loss of a faithful pastor, yet offered no objection to extensive success. In North America, the apos- his going. "We have been praying (said one of toic Elliott, in the last century, was the chief in- them) for the spread of Christ's kingdom amongst strument of the evident and thorough conversion of the heathens; and now God requires us to make the many of the native Indians. The Church of Eng- first sacrifice to accomplish it." Before his departure lacas long established a society for foreign mis- a solemn day was spent in prayer at Leicester, The Presbyterian society in Scotland for March 20, 1793, when Mr. Fuller of Kettering gave prongating Christian knowledge has lent its sup- a very suitable and affecting address on the occaport to several useful missionaries among the Amie- sion, which is published in the Baptist periodical rican Indians. The Moravian brethren have, accounts of their mission, No. I. On June 13, Win these seventy years, sent missions to various 1793, he set sail on board the Princessa Maria, a beaten nations. The Wesleyan Methodists have, Danish East Indiaman, Captain Christmas. Mr. wi in these few years, a tempted a mission to the Carey, and Mr. Thomas, who accompanied him, Cera, who are natives of the West India islands, with their families, kept up morning and evening as have laboured with success among the negro worship in the ship, though surrounded with infisaves in those islands. Of late years this missionary dels and profane people; and an infidel who s has revived afresh, and hereby the hopes of went with them, and is since returned, has said, Carians have been revived, that the Lord Jesus "If ever there was a good man in this world, Carey is about to extend his kingdom in the earth. was one." Pleasing accounts of his succes; The most important society is denominated have been often since received. He has been in VOL VIII. G |