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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1500
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Mistenting, vbl. n. (Tent v. to treat or plug a wound with a surgical ‘tent’ or pledget; the force of the prefix mis-, if not erroneous, is not clear, but perhaps = ‘misdirected’, ‘undeservedly and excessively generous’.) — a1500 Sir Eger 377.
The mistenting of my wounds, Cost that lady twenty pounds
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