Word Meanings - MISLIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To live amiss.

Related words: (words related to MISLIVE)

• AMISSIBILITY
  The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.
• AMISSION
  Deprivation; loss. Sir T. Browne.
• AMISSIBLE
  Liable to be lost.
• AMISS
  Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at'
• EXTRAMISSION
  A sending out; emission. Sir T. Browne.
• INAMISSIBLE
  Incapable of being lost. Hammond. -- In`a*mis"si*ble*ness, n.