Misally

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To wrongly join together; to wrongly ally with or to. rare

    "'Tis my beliefwhen, things are misallied, The sooner they part company the better."

  2. 2
    make a bad alliance; ally inappropriately wordnet
  3. 3
    To marry badly; to marry an inferior dated, historical

    "Despotism, ... misled him to place nearly all his family on thrones, ... and misally himself with a foreign princess, whose family and country were his unappeasable enemies."

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"'Tis my beliefwhen, things are misallied, The sooner they part company the better."

Etymology

From mis- + ally.

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