misrecollectv.
/ˌmɪsˌrɛkəˈlɛkt/, U.S. /ˈˌmɪsˌrɛkəˈlɛk(t)/ 1. intransitive. To be mistaken in one's recollection; to have a wrong or imperfect recollection.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > recollect wrongly [verb (intransitive)]
misremember1614
misrecollect1787
disremember1815
1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury vi. 49 If I do not misrecollect, I remember instances.
a1832 J. Bentham Mem. & Corr. in Wks. (1843) X. 60 He received, if I misrecollect not, the sum of £1000.
1862 N.Y. Tribune 21 Mar. 4/5 The Senate, if we do not misrecollect, has twice passed a bill abolishing the Franking Privilege.
1985 DM News (Nexis) 15 Feb. 55 Unless I misrecollect, the constitution reserves to the federal government the right to leech from inter-state commerce.
2. transitive. To recollect wrongly or imperfectly.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > recollect wrongly [verb (transitive)]
forgetc1300
oblivec1500
misremember1533
oblitec1560
to wear outa1676
misrecollect1818
misrecall1959
1818 N. Amer. Rev. July 249 Even if there were less reason than there is, to think that such conversation was not misunderstood or misrecollected.
1874 Harper's Mag. Aug. 390/2 [The conductor] must see that no time is lost at stations, carrying his timetable in his head, and never misrecollecting its figures.
1955 Mind 64 43 The presumption that recollected experiences, formerly described as ϕ, and now recalled as noticeably different from something else we want to call ϕ, must always be misrecollected.
1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 Oct. 18/1 Fitzgerald wrote ‘from you and me’, which was misrecollected as ‘than you and I’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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