单词 | misinstruct |
释义 | misinstructv. transitive. To instruct wrongly or badly. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > misteach misteachOE mislearOE mistetch1529 misinstruct1557 1557 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) iv. i. f. 105v When thei had ben..misinstructed..by such fawning and flering flatterers. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlix. 104 Let vs not thinke that our Sauiour did misinstruct his disciples. 1817 R. Owen New View of Society (ed. 3) iii. 92 Had not mankind been misintructed from infancy on this subject,..the simple statement of this truth would render it instantaneously obvious to every rational mind. 1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 54 31 He..subsides into the mere singing-master, to misinstruct the rising generation. 1892 S. Baring-Gould In Roar of Sea II. xxix. 131 Perhaps they were..misinstructed by all the medical books they have read. 1951 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 59 281/1 I have no faith that monopolists can be persuaded..by misinstructing them that their monopolizing is not in their private interest. 1996 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 11 May 1 a R. Robert Popeo..countered that prosecutors..misinstructed the grand jury on the law. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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