Misalter
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To make a change that leaves (something) worse than before. transitive
"These are all, besides those which I fore-specified, which have so "misaltered" the liturgy, that it can no more be known to be itself than the strangely-disguised dames which were mentioned in doctor Hall's reproof."
Example
More examples"These are all, besides those which I fore-specified, which have so "misaltered" the liturgy, that it can no more be known to be itself than the strangely-disguised dames which were mentioned in doctor Hall's reproof."
Etymology
From mis- + alter.
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