| 释义 |
misdeˈrive, v.
[mis-1 1.]
†1. trans. To divert into a wrong channel. Obs.
1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iii. vii. 298 Mis-deriving the well meant devotions of..pious soules into a wrong channell.
2. To assign a wrong derivation to.
1817Coleridge ‘Blessed are ye’ 16 To exaggerate and misderive the distress of the labouring classes in order to make them turbulent. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 103 Alimon, alimonia, alimentum.. have been commonly mis-derived by the lexicographers from alo, ‘to nourish’. |