Dictionary entry

Misrule (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mis‐rule″, n. 1. The act, or the result, of misruling.

2. Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.

Enormous riot and misrule surveyed. Pope.

Abbot of Misrule, orLord of Misrule. See under Abbot, and Lord.