Definition of "mishappen"
verb
third-person singular simple present mishappens, present participle mishappening, simple past and past participle mishappened
(now rare) To happen through misfortune.
Quotations
His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie