Misget

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means. obsolete, transitive

    "the fruitlesse end Of thy vaine boast , and spoile of love misgot"

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"the fruitlesse end Of thy vaine boast , and spoile of love misgot"

Etymology

From Middle English misgeten, equivalent to mis- + get.

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