Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MIS-CON-CEIVE
MIS-CON-CEIT, or MIS-CON-CEP'TIONMIS-CON-CEIV-ED
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
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