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misconˈceive, v.
[mis-1 1.]
1. intr. To have a false conception or entertain wrong notions (of). Also with clause, † to suspect (= misdeem v. 6 b).
c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 1166 He that misconceyveth, he misdemeth. c1585Faire Em iii. 1236 You know it's for your cause It pleaseth thus the King to misconceive of me. 1611Bible 2 Macc. iii. 32 The high Priest suspecting lest the king should misconceiue [Coverdale suspecte] that some treachery had beene done to Heliodorus by the Iewes. 1862F. Hall Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 90 Even if I granted, that some men thus misconceive, still such a mistake would not be one of perception, but one of inference.
2. trans. To form an erroneous conception of; to misapprehend (a word, an action, etc.); to mistake the meaning of (a person).
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. i. §1 To yeeld them..reasonable causes of those things, which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they misconceiued. 1605Timme Quersit. Pref. iii, A bad heart misconceiueth good actions. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 254 As for others who..have yet decreed to mis-interpret the intents of my reply, I suppose they would have found as many causes to have misconceav'd the reasons of my silence. 1794Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. 1827 VIII. 250 If I have understood the matter wrong, or misconceived your design. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vi, I cannot suffer my feelings..to remain unexplained, without the possibility of my being greatly misconceived. 1841J. F. Cooper Deerslayer I. i. 10 The Mengwe fill the woods with their lies, and misconceive words and treaties. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) I. iv. 229 The translator seems to misconceive his meaning. |