misdread

From mis- +‎ dread.

• IPA^(key): /mɪsˈdɹɛd/

misdread (third-person singular simple present misdreads, present participle misdreading, simple past and past participle misdreaded)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To dread.
   • 1597-8, Bishop Hall, Sat., Defiance to Envie, 25:

     Needs me then hope, or doth me need misdread?

   • 1606, G. Woodcocke, Hist. Iustine, xxxi, 104:

     To auoyd a mischiefe which he misdreaded.

   • 1632, Flavius Josephus, The Famous and Memorable Works of Iosephus, etc, page 711:

     and the Romanes likewise misdreaded that the Iewes should inuade their campe.

   • 1926, Ernest Hamilton, Launcelot: A Romance of the Court of King Arthur, page 278:

     "Of that I misdreaded," said he, "for full well wist I that either he would rescue her or else he would die in the field; and, to say the truth, he had not been a man of worship had he not rescued the Queen, [...]"

• “misdread”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• disarmed