单词 | misread |
释义 | misreadadj. That has been misread; misinterpreted. ΚΠ 1601 N. Breton No Whippinge, nor Trippinge sig. A5v Who doeth not finde it by experience, That points and letters often times misread, Endaunger oft the harmelesse writers head? 1857 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Sept. 413/1 That intense form of selfishness which gets, from a misread Bible, justification of its evil passions. 1869 J. B. Brown (title) Misread passages of scripture. 1989 D. Leavitt Equal Affections (1990) i. 94 What foiled her in her knitting was nothing more than the ordinary tangle of misread instructions. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). misreadv. transitive. To read or interpret (a text, situation, feelings, etc.) wrongly. Occasionally intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > misinterpret [verb (transitive)] misunderstanda1225 mistake1402 misconstruea1425 miskenc1480 misgloze1532 misinterpret1547 missense1560 wrest1563 misdeem1570 misconceive1586 misconstruct1596 misinfer1597 misconceit1598 misknowa1600 to look beyond1600 lose1600 mismean1605 misprize1609 misread1612 misween1614 misimagine1626 misapprehend1628 construea1640 mislead1654 equivocate1665 misrender1674 misaccept1697 miscomprehend1813 read1879 misperceive1911 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion viii. 128 He meanes Prasutagus, hauing misread Tacitus his copie. 1650 I. Pennington Severall Fresh Inward Openings 13 He that thinks he hath an eye, cannot forbear mis-reading. 1658 J. Quarles Hist. Most Vile Dimagoras ii. 74 You..have misread And made a false construction in my looks. 1779 H. Cowley Albina i. 4 How's this! Have I misread your heart? 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad x. 370 War sure hath ceased; or have my erring eyes Misread the glorious visions of the skies? 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiii. 189 He misread the disposition of the great body of citizens. 1893 A. Bierce Can Such Things Be? 247 I beg your pardon; I must have misread your watch in setting my own by it. 1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) ii. 30 You cannot find in Nature anything evil, save as you misread it by human standards. 1990 J. M. Coetzee Age of Iron i. 21 I played as badly as ever, misreading the same chords as half a century ago. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1601v.1612 |
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