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third-person singular simple present mistones, present participle mistoning, simple past and past participle mistoned
(transitive) To give a bad or wrong tone to. quotations examples
On the whole it were better to misguide a child in knowledge, which it can remedy later, than to mistone it in feeling, for which there is no remedy. A jarring note implanted in its nature might spoil the music of its life […]
1895, Henry Maudsley, The Pathology of Mind, page 541