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misˈcalculate, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To calculate, compute, or reckon wrongly.
1705Arbuthnot Coins, etc. (1727) 112 There may be in such a multitude of passages, several misquoted, misinterpreted, and miscalculated. 1788Burns Let. 17 Dec., You miscalculate matters widely, when you forbid my waiting on you, lest it should hurt my worldly concerns. 1836Thirlwall Greece II. xii. 155 They probably miscalculated the effects of the public success. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 194 Or was it that Hannibal miscalculated the distance..of the route which he chose?
b. absol. or intr.
1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 39 To look for so obliging a World as this comes to, is to miscalculate extremely. 1840Macaulay Ess., Clive (1854) 531/2 The conspirators found that they had miscalculated. 1895Atlantic Monthly LXXVI. 68 They had evidently miscalculated about my departure.
Hence misˈcalculating ppl. a.
1851I. Taylor Wesley & Methodism 205 An ill-judging weakness, a miscalculating caution. |