† misacceptern.
Obsolete. rare.
A person who takes a word in a wrong sense.
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1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 88 My Intention..is..to settle the True and Genuine Sense of such Words, to be applied afterwards to the Mis-accepters of them, as occasion requires.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1697- to proclaim upon the house-top
- to proclaim upon the house-tops
- to proclaim upon the housetop
- to proclaim upon the housetops
- to proclaim war
- to produce in evidence
- to produce the goods
- to proffer a candle before or to the devil
- to prolong one's agony
- to prolong the agony
- to promise fair
- to promise oneself
- to promise oneself something
- to promise the earth
- to promise the moon
- to propose a person's health
- to prosecute the law against
- to prosecute the law upon
- to protest for remedy of law
- to prove a maidenhead
- to prove a scienter
- to prove a woman's maidenhead
- to prove conclusions
- to prove fatal
- to prove fatal to