Misgive: alternatives and connections

A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), d…

Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.

To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords c…

In grief; amiss.

To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allo…

Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent.

A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something;…

To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money…

To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.

To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.

To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with…

To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the s…

The first word of ancient charters in England, confirming a grant made by a former king; hence, a royal grant.

To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the l…

Wrong; amiss.

A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, misc…

To conduct amiss; to mismanage.