Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To maltreat; abuse; treat badly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To treat wrongfully.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
treat wrongfully .
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Examples
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And at the last, after many words, there was a clerk which had been longing to S. Erkenwold, and saw this strife, and stood up and commanded silence, and told to the people a great commendation of the virtuous life of this holy saint, and said it was not honest, ne according, to misentreat the holy body by violent hands, but let us beseech Almighty
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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