misaffirm (misaferm)

t. affirm.] To affirm incorrectly or wrongly. The truth of what they themselves know to be here misaffirm'd. Milton, Eikon ok las tes, Pref. misaimed (mis-amd'), a. [ Now-a-days they are only used to exclude and drive forth episcopacy; but then they misallege antiquity. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 248. misalliance (mis-a-li'ans), n. [ mésall i ance, mes- + alliance , alliance: see mis -2 and alliance.] An improper alliance or a ociation; specifically, a marriage relation considered as degrading to one of the parties, owing to the inferior birth or standing of the other: in the latter sense often used in the French form, mésalliance. Their purpose was to ally two things in nature incompatible, the Gothic and the cla ic unity; the effect of misalliance was to discover and expose the naked ne of the Gothic. Bp. Hurd, Chivalry and Romance, viii. misallied (mis-a-lid'), a. [ A misallied and disparaged branch of the house of Nim- Burke , Letter to a Noble Lord. rod.