mislay

verb

1. (transitive)To leave or lay something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it.

   “He cannot see well, mislays his glasses, and frequently mismends the nets.”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To err in placing something.

   “[F]ire, if it be well and rightly vſed, burneth in the houſe to the good and pꝛofit of the familie: but if miſlayed oꝛ abuſed, burneth the houſe to the vndoing of the inhabitantes: […]”

   “You haue miſ-caſt in your Arithmetike, / Miſ-laid your Counters, groapingly yee ſeeke / In nights blacke darknes for the ſecret things / Seal’d in the Casket of the King of Kings; […]”

   “First, Scio cui credidi, I know whom I have believed in: I have not mislaid my foundation; my foundation is Christ; […]”

   “Oh heavens! her grief miſlayes her noble reaſon, what ſhall we do”

   “This being ſo that Defects and Weakneſs in Mens Underſtandings, as well as other Faculties, come from want of a right uſe of their own Minds, I am apt to think the fault is generally miſlaid upon Nature, and there is often a Complaint of want of Parts when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.”