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Mislike, v.1 Also: mys- and -lyk(e, -lyik. [ME. and e.m.E. mis-, myslike, OE. mislícian.]
1. intr., const. to (a person) or dative noun or pronoun: To displease, dissatisfy, offend.1384–5 Acts I. 349/2.
Gif thir covenantz beforsaid likis or mislikis to the forsaid erle … or to the lord ?1438 Alex. ii. 3130.
Had Gaudefere slane Emynedus thare, My hart it wald haue mislykit sare Ib. 6835.
This weir mislykis me mony wys 1558-66 Knox II. 23.
Oure interpryse altogitther myslyked nott the counsall Ib. 334.
Yf ye hear any thing of my self that myslyikis you, come … and tell me Ib. 381.
All thingis myslyking the preachearis, thei spack boldlie against [etc.] 1576 Bk. Univ. Kirk I. 352.
If the heads conceived before mislyked them, they should … penne other heads 1641 Baillie I. 362.
The clause … which I lyked best, did most mislyke them
b. Quasi-impersonal: Me mislykes, it displeases me, I am displeased, troubled, uneasy at (of) something. —?1438 Alex. ii. 6038.
Bot me mislykes of Lyoun, That I se rydand, him allane
2. tr. To be displeased or dissatisfied (with); to dislike; to disapprove (of).a. active. b. passive.a. (1) 1558-66 Knox II. 334.
Ye shall fullie understand boyth what I like and myslike, als weall in your majestie as [etc.] 1566 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. App. iii. 395/2.
Requiring of him [the king] quhat is the mater that he findis himself grevit in and mislykis 1568 Hosack Mary Q. of Scots 545. Ib. 548. 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 13.
I mislykes very sair the thingis I saw 1572 Sat. P. xxxi. 125.
Sum of thame dois euin mislyke thame [sc. the news] Als mekle as ȝour sells a1585 Maitl. Q. lxi. 86. 1579–80 Annandale Corr. 25.
Thair wes sum of the offers quhilk I did lyke, bot vtheris that I mislykit c1590 Fowler II. 14/4.
That ȝe wald not mislyke my labours heirin 1614 Crim. Trials III. 303.(2) 1613 Crim. Trials III. 245.
Haifing committit innumerable oppressiones … aganis sic persones as ye mislyket(3) 1568 Anderson Collect. Mary IV. ii. 106.
Their othes, which they did not any wise mislike to take(4) 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 44.
Mislyking most that thai should take ony discomfort by our forebearing to schaw our mynd thairin 1586 Warrender P. MS. 176.
Mislyking altogether that her majestie sould have [etc.] 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1751) 87.b. 1558-66 Knox II. 68.
Hir wordis war hard of sum and mislykeit of many 1570 Warrender P. (S.H.S.) I. 85.
Strengears ar myslykit and ar odious 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 267. c 1584 Maxwell Mem. II. 157.
Worthie to be mislykit be all men of godlie behauiour c1590 Fowler II. 10/21. 1600-1610 Melvill 421.
Seing now … all sic as lyked of the best ministers to be mislyked at Court c1615 Chron. Kings 101.
Gritly mislykitt of all the pepill a1634 Forbes Rec. 404. 1646 Baillie II. 416. c 1641–54 J. Gordon in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 519.
Mislykead
3. intr. To mislike of (someone or something), and in the passive. = prec. sense.(1) 1567 Sel. MSS. Q. Mary 183.
I have, for my particular, no cause to mislyke off France 1570 Warrender P. MS. 130 (15).
The quen … sall hawe leist cause to mislyk of him 1570 Leslie 26. 1582 Reg. Privy C. III. 481. 1602 Colville Paraenese Ep. 13.
I am still resoluit to loue you housoeuer you mislyik of me 1614 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 128.
We all thrie mislyk of it, becaus [etc.](2) 1570-3 Bann. Trans. 506.
passive They who had bene menteaneris of his crowne … [have been] discredited and mislyked of 1586 Gray Lett. & P. 103.
I have … discovered divers matters to be misliked of 1587 Rait & Cameron King James's Secret 164.
Myslykit 1587 Misc. Bann. C. I. 122.
Som ministers … war nocht onlie mislykit off and hatit, bot [etc.]
