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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Mis'con-çeit', n. p. 843Misconception. Spenser.Mis'con-çēive', v. t. or i. p. 843To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion or opinion of; to misjudge; to have an erroneous understanding of. Our endeavor is . . . to yield to them just and reasonable…Mis'con-cēiv'er, n. p. 843One who misconceives.Mis'/con-çēp'tion, n. p. 843Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong notion or understanding of a thing. Great errors and dangers result from a misconception of the names of things. Hervey. Syn.—Misapprehension…Mis-cōn'duct, n. p. 843Wrong conduct; ill behavior; ill management. Addison. Syn.—Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.Mis'con-dūct', v. t. p. 843To conduct amiss; to mismanage.Mis'con-dūct', v. i. p. 843To behave amiss.Mis-cŏn'fi-dent, a. p. 843Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting or believing. [Rare.] Bp. Hall.Mis'con-jēct'ūre, n. p. 843A wrong conjecture or guess.Mĭs'con-jēct'ūre, v. t. or i. p. 843To guess wrongly.Mis-cōn'se-crā'tion, n. p. 843Wrong consecration.Mis-cōn'se-quence, n. p. 843A wrong consequence.Mis'con-strŭct', v. t. p. 843To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.Mis'con-strūc'tion, n. p. 843Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation of words or things; a mistaking of true meaning.Mis-cōn'strue, v. t. p. 843To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously. Do not, great sir, misconstrue his intent. Dryden. A virtuous emperor was much affected to find his actions misconstrued. Addison.Mis-cōn'stru-er, n. p. 843One who misconstrues.Mis'/con-tēnt', a. p. 843Not content; discontented. She was not miscontent that he seemed little to regard Jacob's well. Vidal.Mis’con-tīn’ū-ance, n. p. 843Cessation; discontinuance; intermission. [Obs.]Mis'cor-rēct', v. t. p. 843To mistake in attempting to correct. He passed the first seven years of his life at Mantua, not seventeen, as Scaliger miscorrects his author. Dryden.Mis-coun'sel, v. t. p. 843To counsel or advise wrongly. Spenser.Mis-count', v. t. p. 843To count erroneously; to mistake in counting.Mis-count', v. i. p. 843To make wrong reckoning.Mis-count’, n. p. 843An erroneous counting or numbering.Mis-cōv'et, v. t. p. 843To desire wrongfully. [Obs.]Mis'cre-ance or Mis'cre-an-cy, n. p. 843The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith; unbelief. [Obs.]Mis'cre-ant, n. p. 843An infidel, or one who embraces a false faith. “When a man is called upon to show that he is not a pagan or a miscreant.” De Quincey. 2. A vile wretch; an unprincipled fellow.Mis'cre-ātē', a. p. 843Formed unnaturally or illegitimately.Mis'cre-āt'ed p. 843mately; deformed. [Obs.]Mis'cre-ā'tive, a. p. 843Tending to wrong creation.Mĭs'cre-dū'li-ty, n. p. 844Wrong credulity or belief; misbelief; want of belief. [Obs.] “The miscredulity of those who will rather trust to the church than to the Scripture.” Bp. Hall.Mĭs'eu, n. p. 844An Indian tooth-powder. Simmonds.Mis-dāte', n. p. 844A wrong date.Mis-dāte', v. t. p. 844To date erroneously.Mis-deed', n. p. 844An evil deed; a wicked action. “Evils which our own misdeeds have done.” Milton. Syn.—Misconduct; misdemeanor; fault; offense; trespass; transgression; crime.Mis-deem', v. t. p. 844To judge erroneously; to misjudge; to mistake in judging. “Misdeeming the cause to be in God’s law which is in man’s unrighteous ignorance.” Milton.Mis'de-mēan', v. t. p. 844To behave or demean ill. Shak.Mis'de-mēan'ant, n. p. 844One guilty of a misdemeanor. Misdemeanants, who have money in their pockets, may be seen in many of our prisons. S. Smith.Mis'-de-mēan'-or, n. p. 844Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault; mismanagement. 2. (Law.) Any crime less than a felony. The term applies to all offenses for which the law has not furnished a particular name. New Am. Cyc. Wharton.…Mis'de-pārt', v. t. p. 844To divide or distribute wrongly or unequally. [Obs.] “He misdeparteth riches temporal.” Chaucer.Mis'de-rīve', v. t. p. 844To err in deriving.Mis'de-scribe', v. t. p. 844To describe erroneously.Mis'de-sērt', n. p. 844Ill desert. [Obs.] Spenser.Mis'de-vō'tion, n. p. 844False devotion; mistaken piety. [Obs.] Donne.Mis-di'et, n. p. 844Improper diet or food. [Obs.] Spenser.Mis-dight′, a. p. 844Arrayed, prepared, or furnished wrongly or unfitly. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.Mis'di-rēct', v. t. p. 844To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger. 2. To direct to a wrong person or place; as, to misdirect a letter.Mis'di-rēc'tion, n. p. 844The act of directing wrongly. 2. (Law.) An error of a judge in charging the jury.Mis-dis'po-si'tion, n. p. 844Disposition to evil. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.Mĭs'dis-tĭn'guish, v. t. p. 844To make wrong distinctions in or concerning.Mis'di-vīde', v. t. p. 844To divide wrongly.Mis'dĭ-vī'sion, n. p. 844Wrong or inaccurate division.Mis-dō', v. t. p. 844To do wrongly.Mis-dō', v. i. p. 844To do wrong; to do amiss; to commit a fault or crime. Milton.Mis-do'er, n. p. 844One who misdoes; one who commits a fault or crime; a wrong-doer. Spenser.Mis-dō'ing, n. p. 844A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense.Mis-doubt', v. t. p. 844To suspect of deceit or danger; to be suspicious of; to regard with foreboding of evil. [Obs.] “Misdoubt him not.” Beau. & Fl.Mis-doubt', v. i. p. 844To have suspicion; to suspect. [Obs.]Mis-doubt', n. p. 844Suspicion of crime or danger. 2. Irresolution; hesitation. [Obs.] Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts, And change misdoubt to resolution. Shak.Mis-doubt'ful, a. p. 844Misgiving. [Obs.] She 'gan to cast in her misdoubtful mind A thousand fears. Spenser.Mis-drēad’, n. p. 844Dread of evil. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.