Word of the Day: MISEASY


ETYMOLOGY
from Anglo-Norman meseisémiseisémysesé (sick, unhappy, suffering, painful),
from mesaiser (misease, to trouble, to distress)


EXAMPLE 1
“…A lodlich musel he þouȝte al-so : and þe fouleste þat miȝte beo—
A Miseisiore man þane he þouȝte : no man ne miȝte iseo
…”

From:
The early South-English legendary ; or, Lives of Saints
Edited by Carl Horstmann, 1887
Vita sancti Iuliani boni hospitis (The life of St. Julian the Hospitable). c1300


EXAMPLE 2
It had been a long, hard day, and I went to bed that night feeling miseasy and heart-sick.

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