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mishave

verb

  1. To misbehave or misconduct (oneself); do wrong.

    intransitive, obsolete

    It is agreed […] that if anie servaunte […] shall by fighting, quarrelling or other unsemelie maner at anie time herafter misdemeane or mishave himself and therof be ones monished or warned […]

Where it comes from

From Middle English *mishaven, from Old English *mishabban, attested in derivative mishabbende (“having ill”), equivalent to mis- + have.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry mishave (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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