| 单词 | in mistake for |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin mistake for P1. by (rarely from, †in a) mistake: erroneously, mistakenly, in error. in mistake for: in error for. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adverb] adwolec1275 amissc1275 mislichec1275 out of the waya1450 erroneously1512 perperously1657 mistakenly1660 by (rarely from, in a) mistake1678 1678 Young Man's Calling 13 The young man by mistake fondly calls it Naomi, and says it is pleasant. 1707 Boston News-let. 3 Mar. 2/1 The Squaw lately taken by Col. Hilton in his former Expidition, unhappily received a Wound from one of our men by mistake. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 158 A Tooth..was drawn by an unskilful Surgeon in a Mistake. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 141 Some having taken this water in a mistake,..it has vomitted and purged them. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xiii. 76 It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake. 1822 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 9 Mar. 579 In the year 1814; and not 1815, as I, from mistake, stated at Chichester. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia 23 A story of a sane person being by mistake shut up in the wards of a Lunatic Asylum. 1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 321/1 The American flag..was by mistake hoisted ‘union down’. 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. i. ii. 39 Old Jolyon..gave the driver a sovereign in mistake for a shilling. 1971 F. D. Ommanney Lost Leviathan ii. 39 It is also known..as the Minke whale after a whaling gunner named Meincke who accidentally shot one in mistake for a Blue. 2000 N. DeMille Lion's Game xiii. 108 If anybody hits it by mistake, they're in big trouble. < as lemmas |
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