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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1583-1584
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Misusaige, n. [e.m.E. misusage (1532).] Misconduct, misbehaviour, transgression. —1583–4 Misc. Spald. C. II. 341.
Alexander Hay … inquirit vpoun his misvsaige … baith in his persoun and in the dispositioun of … [his] patrimony