Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: MIS-SPOKE, or MIS-SPOK-EN – MIS-TELL'
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MIS-SPOKE, or MIS-SPOK-EN, pp.
Uttered or spoken amiss.
MIS-STATE', v.t.
To state wrong; to make an erroneous representation of facts; as, to misstate a question in debate. Sanderson.
MIS-STAT'ED, pp.
Stated erroneously.
MIS-STATE'MENT, n.
A wrong statement; an erroneous representation, verbal or written; as, a misstatement of facts in testimony, or of accounts in a report. Hamilton.
MIS-STAT-ING, ppr.
Stating falsely or erroneously.
MIS-STAY'ED, a.
Having missed stays, as a ship.
MIS-SUM-MA'TION, n.
Wrong summation. Scott.
MIS-SWEAR, v.t.
To swear ill. [Obs.] Bacon.
MIS'SY, n.
The sulphate of iron, having lost the water of its crystalization, is called sori; more thoroughly calcined, it is yellow, and called missy. Fourcroy.
MIST, n. [Sax. mist; D. mist; L. mixtus, mistus, from misceo, to mix.]
- Water falling in very numerous, but fine and almost imperceptible drops. A mist is a multitude of small but solid globules, which therefore descend. Grew.
- That which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision. His passion cast a mist before his sense. Dryden.
MIST, v.t.
To cloud; to cover with vapor. Shak.
MIS-TAK'A-BLE, a.
That may be misconceived or mistaken. Brown.
MIS-TAKE, n.
- An error in opinion or judgment; misconception. Infallibility is an absolute security of the understanding from all possibility of mistake. Tillotsen.
- A slip; a fault; an error. There is a mistake in the account or in the date.
MIS-TAKE', v.i.
To err in opinion or judgment. Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends. Swift.
MIS-TAKE, v.t.
- To take wrong; to conceive or understand erroneously; to misunderstand or misapprehend. 'Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain. Pope.
- To take one thing or person for another. We mistake the eloquence of self-apology for the animation of conscious integrity. Buckminster. A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it. Johnson.
MIS-TAK-EN, pp.
In the use of this participle, there is a peculiarity which ought to be carefully noticed. When used of persons, it signifies to be in an error, to be wrong; as, I am mistaken, you are mistaken, he is mistaken. But when use of things, it signifies misunderstood, misconceived; as, the sense of the passage is mistaken, that is, not rightly understood.
MIS-TA'KEN-LY, adv.
By mistake.
MIS-TAK'ER, n.
One that mistakes or misunderstands.
MIS-TAK-ING, n.
An error; a mistake. Hall.
MIS-TAK'ING, ppr.
Making a mistake; erring from the truth; misconceiving.
MIS-TAK'ING-LY, adv.
Erroneously; falsely. Boyle.
MIS-TAUGHT', pp.
Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth. L'Estrange.
MIS-TEACH, v.t. [See Teach.]
To teach wrong; to instruct erroneously. Sanderson.
MIS-TEACH-ING, ppr.
Instructing erroneously.
MIS-TELL', v.t. [See Tell.]
To tell erroneously.