Word Meanings - MISDEMEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.

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• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• PRONOUNCER
  One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.
• BEHAVE
  to have, sich gehaben to behave or carry one's self); pref. 1. To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak. 2. To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear;
• PRONOUN
  A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.
• PRONOUNCE
  1. To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly. 2. To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver,
• PRONOUNCEABLE
  Capable of being pronounced.
• PRONOUNCED
  Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. Note: views became every day more pronounced. Thackeray.
• REFLEXIVE
  Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond. 2. Implying censure. "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word" South. (more info) 1. Etym:
• PRONOUNCEMENT
  The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement.
• MISDEMEANOR
  A crime less than a felony. Wharton. Note: As a rule, in the old English law, offenses capitally punishable were felonies; all other indictable offenses were misdemeanors. In common usage, the word crime is employed to denote the offenses
• PRONOUNCING
  Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary.
• MISDEMEANANT
  One guilty of a misdemeanor. Sydney Smith.
• MISPRONOUNCE
  To pronounce incorrectly.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• MISBEHAVED
  Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude. "A misbehaved and sullen wench." Shak.