Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To spoil the meter or measure of (verses) by reading them badly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To give the wrong
meter to, as to a line ofverse .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
mis- + meter
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