English

Verb

misgo ‎(third-person singular simple present misgoes, present participle misgoing, simple past miswent, past participle misgone)

1. (intransitive, now rare or dialect) To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale:

     ther is a ful noble way, and ful covenable, which may not faile to man ne to womman, that thorugh synne hath mysgon fro the right way of Jerusalem celestial [...].

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 6, Monk Samson:

     Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim!

   • 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, ch. 45:

     Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing.

Anagrams

• gismo