Misoccupy

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.

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Let them not be idle, or misoccupied.

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It is not to be misused, like other books full of mad doctrine and chatter which misoccupy your mind with their beggarly pedantry, so grasp this volume of books of finely invented truth and with your eyes open, like dogs hunting for fleas;

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Their 'brutal persecutions', he told his friend and patron the Earl of Buchan, were 'unceasingly contrived to distract & misoccupy my attention':

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