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1576 in F. J. Furnivall Gild of St. Mary, Lichfield (1920) 32 By the abvsynge, mysinterpretacion or mystakinge of these ordynaunces.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 181 S. Matthew..sayes in a word, which can admit no mis-interpretation, That that was fulfilled which Esay had said.

1690 T. Burnet Rev. Theory of Earth 13 We are oblig'd to free it from those false glosses or mis-interpretations, that..make it wholly ineffectual.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 4. ⁋2 One would think a silent Man..should be very little liable to misinterpretations.

1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xvi. p. cclxxxv Mis-interpretation, or adjudication.

1834 N. Amer. Rev. July 97 Christian hostility to the practice of lending and borrowing on interest, originated in a misinterpretation of the Mosaic law.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. iv. 168 A far more frequent cause of false perceptions, however, lies in the misinterpretation of real Sense-impressions.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 211 The histological misinterpretations it contains are so numerous.

1926 W. Lewis Art of being Ruled v. v. 159 A sort of sugar-sweet misinterpretation of the period of mediæval rebirth, when everything was happy and the workshops were full of songs.

1941 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 6 June in War within & Without (1980) 194 We talk of C.'s last speech and the current misinterpretations and vilifications.

1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants 26 The problems are great:..they can be ignored with a certainty of serious misinterpretation.