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▪ I. misˈcount, n.
[mis-1 4. Cf. OF. mescont, mesconte.]
A wrong count, reckoning, or calculation.
1586J. Hooker Descr. Irel. in Holinshed II. 49/1 Aswell in the miscount of yeares as other vnlikelihoods found therein. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1664) lix. 132 O that he would take his own blood for counts & miscounts, that I might be a free man, & none had any claim to me, but onely, onely Jesus. 1897Daily News 13 May 5/3 The Speaker has, owing to a miscount, been compelled to give a casting vote. 1903Fluff-Hunters 137 She knew how many beans make five, and never made a miscount.
▪ II. misˈcount, v.
[mis-1 1. But cf. OF. mesconter, mod.F. (se) mécompter.]
1. trans. To miscalculate, misreckon.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 124 In their computacion they had mistaken and miscounted in their nomber an hundreth yeres. 1611Cotgr., Mesconté, misreckoned, miscompted. 1646Rutherford Lett. 9 Jan. (1664) 537 Christ cannot miscount one of the poorest of his lambs. 1793Tour thro' Theat. War 47 A man less wretched might easily miscount time, and so did he. 1816Scott Antiq. xli, After twice miscounting the sum, he threw the whole to his daughter.
2. intr. († also refl., after Fr.) To make a wrong calculation.
1390Gower Conf. I. 147 And if so be that he misconteth, To make in his answere a faile. 1530Palsgr. 637/1 Tell it agayne, you have myscounted your selfe, I warrant you. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1045 These philosophers doe miscount greatly, and stray farre from reason and proportion.., if so be that Geometricall demonstrations do availe ought. 1659Bp. Patrick Div. Arith. (1660) 6 Thus do all men generally miscount in the dayes of their health. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. v. 131 The trouble in going up [the steps], makes one often miscount. 1840Whewell Philos. Induct. Sci. I. 133 In such a case we may forget in the intervals of the strokes, and miscount.
3.
†a. To estimate wrongly. Obs.
b. To regard erroneously (as).
a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. ii. 17 (1693) 393 Men miscount themselves at home, they reckoning that they ought to be regarded. 1847Tennyson Princess iv. 315 While my honest heat Were all miscounted as malignant haste. |