Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: MIS'CITE – MISCON'STRU-ING
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MIS'CITE, v.t.
To cite erroneously or falsely.
MIS-CIT-ED, pp.
Quoted wrong.
MIS-CLAIM, n.
A mistaken claim or demand. Bacon.
Erroneous computation; false reckoning. Clarendon.
MIS-COM-PUTE, v.t.
To compute or reckon erroneously.
MIS-COM-PUT-ED, pp.
Reckoned erroneously.
MIS-COM-PUT-ING, ppr.
Reckoning erroneously.
MIS-CON-CEIT, or MIS-CON-CEP'TION, n.
Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong notion or understanding of a thing. Great errors and dangers result from a misconception of the names of things. Harvey.
MIS-CON-CEIVE, v.t. [or v. i.]
To receive a false notion a opinion of any thing; to misjudge; to have an erroneous understanding of any thing. To yield to others just and reasonable causes of those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. Hooker
MIS-CON-CEIV-ED, pp.
Wrongly understood; mistaken.
MIS-CON-CEIV-ING, ppr.
Mistaking; misunderstanding.
MIS-CON'DUCT, n.
Wrong conduct; ill behavior; ill management. Addison.
MIS-CON-DUCT', v.i.
To behave amiss.
MIS-CON-DUCT', v.t.
To conduct amiss; to mismanage.
MIS-CON-DUCT'ED, pp.
Ill managed; badly conducted.
MIS-CON-DUCT'ING, ppr.
Mismanaging; misbehaving.
MIS-CON-JEC'TURE, n.
A wrong conjecture or guess.
MIS-CON-JEC'TURE, v.t. [or v. i.]
To guess wrong.
MIS-CON-JEC'TUR-ED, pp.
Guessed wrong.
Wrong consecration.
Wrong interpretation of word or things; a mistaking of the true meaning; as, a misconstruction of words or actions.
MIS-CON'STRUE, v.t.
To interpret erroneously either words or things. It is important not to misconstrue the Scripture. Do not, great sir, misconstrue his intent. Dryden. A virtuous emperor was much affected to find his actions misconstrued. Addison.
MIS-CON'STRU-ED, pp.
Erroneously interpreted.
MIS-CON'STRU-ER, n.
One who makes a wrong interpretation.
MISCON'STRU-ING, ppr.
Interpreting wrongly.