misease
AmericanEtymology
Origin of misease
1150–1200; Middle English misese < Old French mesaise. See mis- 1, ease
Example Sentences
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And they went on, all an-ned as they were, till they came to where Geoffry, the Marshal of Champagne, was keeping guard in the rear, in very great anxiety and misease.
From Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Villehardouin, Geoffroi de
No hand shall be raised against her, and she dies by misease; yet shall she not die in bed,” and the old woman nodded prophetically.
From In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls by De Land, Clyde Osmer
Wheaten flour boiled in milk and applied while warm hath been known to work wonders for such misease.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster
There were they a while of time in great misease, and so long that the son of the Count was much sick, insomuch that the Count and Messire Thibault had fear of his dying.
From Old French Romances by Morris, William
We die, sire, of famine and of all misease.
From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene
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