miscreate

American  

[mis-kree-ayt, mis-kree-it, -ayt] / ˌmɪs kriˈeɪt, ˈmɪs kri ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

verb (used with or without object)

miscreated, miscreating

1. to create amiss or deformed.

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adjective

1. miscreated.

miscreate British  

verb

1. to create (something) badly or incorrectly

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adjective

1. archaic badly or unnaturally formed or made

Other Word Forms

• miscreation
  noun
• miscreator
  noun
• miscreative
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of miscreate

First recorded in 1580–90; mis- ¹ + create

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

miscreate miscreated

To him the lights of even and morn Speak no vain things of love or scorn,    Fancies and passions miscreate    By man in things dispassionate.

From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Black swarming in medley miscreate,   In masses lumped hideously, Wallowed the conger, the thorny skate,   The lobster's grisly deformity; And bared its teeth with cruel sheen a Terrible shark, the sea's hyena.

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

Black-swarming, in medley miscreate,   In masses lumped hideously, Wallowed the conger, the thorny skate,   The lobster's grisly deformity; And, baring its teeth with cruel sheen, a Terrible shark, the sea's hyena.

From Rampolli by George MacDonald

I must likewise take notice, that there are in Milton several Words of his own coining, as Cerberean, miscreated, Hell-doom'd, Embryon Atoms, and many others.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison

All this is very amiable in him, and the more so, perhaps, as these objects of his affection are the young ones of a race in his opinion miscreated by an evil-working chance.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

How many times in my life have I been foiled and baffled by those miscreated men-machines in scarlet blanketing!

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala

Whence and what art thou, execrable Shape, That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates?

From Paradise Lost by John Milton

You miscreated scarecrow, dare you shake, Or strike in jest, a natural man like me?—

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Montrose Jonas Moses

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