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▪ I. mistaking, vbl. n.|mɪˈsteɪkɪŋ|
[f. mistake v. + -ing1.]
The action of mistake v.; † wrong-doing; misunderstanding, misconception; the act of making a mistake. From c 1580 to c 1650 frequent in the sense of: Mistake, error.
a1300Cursor M. 27258 Enentes knightes [sal he frain] o mistakyng, And namli wrangwis warraing. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. lxxvi. (1869) 44 To you dame Sapience sendeth me..to shewe you youre mistakinges. 1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 167/1 That we shall auoide..all such myssetakyng, as might brynge vs into any damnable errour. 1530Palsgr. 245/2 Mystakyng of a man selfe or myspride. 1573Baret Alv. M 367 The likenesse causeth mistaking. Errorem creat similitudo. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 203 As his manifold mistakins do declare. 1613Sir H. Nevill in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 131, I would wish you not to neglect him, out of any mistaking of his worth. 1626Bacon Sylva §946 This Pretended Learned Man told me; It was a Mistaking in Me. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iv. xliv. 336 The same mistaking of the present Church for the Kingdom of God. a1654Selden Table-T. (Arb.) 112 The way to find out the Truth is by others mistakings. 1677R. Cary Palæol. Chron. ii. i. xxi. 161 To prevent Confusion, as well as Mistakings, it was not permitted [etc.]. 1824Byron Juan xvi. cxviii, He first inclined to think he had been mistaken; And then to be ashamed of such mistaking. 1890Spectator 7 June, Those whose eyes are opened in a new world to their fearful mistaking. 1891Kipling Light that Failed iv. 66 There was no mistaking.
▪ II. mistaking, ppl. a.|mɪˈsteɪkɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
1. Misunderstanding, misconceiving; erring.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. v. 45 Pardon old father my mistaking eies. 1688Prior Ode Exodus vii, Still enquiring, still mistaking Man. 1692Dryden Cleomenes v. ii. 59 And with a good mistaking Piety, First blessing him, then Heaven! 1711Swift Examiner No. 24 ⁋2 And first I declare (because we live in a mistaking world) that [etc.]. 1725Pope Odyss. vii. 394 Man's of a jealous and mistaking kind. a1806Horsley Serm. (1812) II. 252 They expected not like the mistaking Jews a Saviour of the Jewish nation only.
†2. Of opinions, statements: Mistaken, erroneous. Obs.
1651Baxter Saints' R. iii. ii. (ed. 2) 193 Do not say then, I cannot beleeve that my sin is pardoned..and therefore I am no true Beleever: This is a most mistaking conclusion. 1660Boyle Seraph. Love To Rdr. 3 Its mistaking Passages and unwary Expressions. 1680Baxter Answ. Stillingfl. lxiv. 87 How faulty and hurtful this mistaking passionate Separation is. |