Word Meanings - MISFALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to MISFALL)
- HAPPEN
Etym: 1. To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21. 2. To take place; to occur. All these things which had happened. Luke xxiv. 14. To happen on, to meet with; to - UNLUCKILY
In an unlucky manner. - BEFALL
To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak. - MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser. - BEHAPPEN
To happen to.