Misoccupy
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To occupy with something inappropriate; to focus or spend on something unworthy.
"It may well be supposed that these grave religious writers would look on it as a profanation to waste valuable ink and parchment, and misoccupy their own precious time, in perpetuating the useless, heathenish, and often lewd fictions, which they would gladly see banished from the memory of the human race."
- 2 To fill with something inappropriate; to provide the wrong contents for.
"Desert you the misoccupied chair of justice arbitrator, the position that should be occupied by honor and contaminate not the air of heaven with the name of liberty, freedom and justice befouled by your construction."
Example
More examples"It may well be supposed that these grave religious writers would look on it as a profanation to waste valuable ink and parchment, and misoccupy their own precious time, in perpetuating the useless, heathenish, and often lewd fictions, which they would gladly see banished from the memory of the human race."
Etymology
From mis- + occupy.
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