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misbeˈlieve, v.
[mis-1 1, 7. Cf. OF. mescrere, mod. mécroire.]
1. intr. To believe amiss; to hold an erroneous belief. Also with clause.
1382Wyclif Deut. i. 26 Mysbileuynge [1388 vnbileueful, Vulg. increduli] to the word of the Lord oure God. a1425Cursor M. 18698 (Trin.) Thomas..Stonde studfaste now herfore And mis bileue [other MSS. mistr(o)u] þou no more. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 190 Who so euer confesse..all y⊇ articles of our fayth, saue onely one, & in that one do mysbyleue, he is an heretyke. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. xii. 26 She..comming to her sonne, gan first to scold And chyde at him that made her misbelieve. 1644Milton Bucer on Div. Wks. 1851 IV. 335 The holy Spirit does not make the mis-beleeving of him who departs, but the departing of him who mis-beleevs, to be the just cause of freedom to the brother or sister. 1647Trapp Comm. John xx. 8 As Mary Magdalene had told them, so they mis-believed, that it [the Lord's body] was taken away to some other place.
2. trans. Not to believe; to distrust (a person); to disbelieve (a thing). Obs.
c1450Lovelich Merlin 1505 And Neuere j schal the Misbeleve For non Man that owht can on þe preve. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. i. ix. (1712) 26 If bare possibility may at all intangle our assent..we cannot fully misbelieve the absurdest Fable. 1699Burnet 39 Art. xv. 139 We find the same Zachary guilty of misbelieving the Message of the Angel to him. 1728Bailey, To Misbelieve, to distrust. |