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miscompose

verb

Etymology

From mis- + compose.

  1. derived from componere
  2. derived from composer
  3. inherited from composen
  4. prefixed as miscompose — “mis + compose”

Definitions

  1. To compose badly.

    • And, grieved that lives so matched should miscompose, Each mourn the double waste; and question dare To the Great Dame whence incarnation flows, Why those high-purposed children never were: What will she answer?
    • […] where much ridicule is directed against the old painter who wrote as Observator; ridicule miscomposed by the editor, Thomas Burgeland Johnson, who wrote also now and then under the pseudonym T. H. Needham.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA