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  • verb Past participle of mischoose

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Examples

  • They made a man, though he were ever so wise and good a man, though he were a man of God, an offender for a word, a word mischosen or misplaced, when they could not but know that it was well meant, v. 21.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • Anderson: Lawyerly Type, your cognomen is mischosen.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010

  • Anderson: Lawyerly Type, your cognomen is mischosen.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010

  • So off the bat the conspiracy of my analytical mind and possibly mischosen words put me ill at ease.

    waterdiluted Diary Entry waterdiluted 2006

  • It does not convey the moral of neglected genius, or of loose notions of money-obligations, ending in suicide, but simply of a mischosen vocation, leading sooner or later to utter and undeniable failure.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

  • If you carve it at Thermopylae, or where Winkelried died, or upon Bunker Hill monument, and read it again "who fell in defence of law and order against fanaticism" you will perceive what the word means, and how mischosen it is.

    Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

  • If you carve it at Thermopylae, or where Winkelried died, or upon Bunker Hill monument, and read it again "who fell in defence of law and order against fanaticism" you will perceive what the word means, and how mischosen it is.

    Following the Equator, Part 4 Mark Twain 1872

  • But there's a snare of mine, Jan, that I mean your feet to be free of, and that's a mischosen vocation.

    Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • So Enrique stumbled ahead on the same mischosen path: “Well, it is your apartment—and I just can’t go on living there—”

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • So Enrique stumbled ahead on the same mischosen path: “Well, it is your apartment—and I just can’t go on living there—”

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

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