单词 | mismeaning |
释义 | mismeaningn. Now rare. Wrong meaning. Formerly also: †wrong or bad intention (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] > act of entrapping, ensnarement beswiking1340 espying1340 telea1450 mismeaningc1450 trapping?1531 entrapping1564 entangling1574 catcha1586 entrapment1609 ensnarementa1617 ensnaring1660 trepan1665 trepanning1670 crimping1795 roping in1840 entoilment1855 noosing1878 c1450 ( Crowned King 89 in W. W. Skeat Langland's Piers Plowman (1873) 527 Gylers mowthes, That speken to the spiritually with spiritual tonges..And of a mys menyng maketh a faire tale. a1500 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1933) 164 182 (MED) Mysmenyng [perh. read mysmeuyng] engendreþ þynges þre: Scorne, dyspyte, and vylany. 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie Peroration 247 Now as all these particulars by their priuat mismeaning, work their own mischiefe. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Mm4v He saw the misfortune not the mismeaning of his worke, was like to bring that creature to end. 1972 L. A. Hieb in A. Ortiz New Perspectives Pueblos 165 They [sc. ritual clowns] reverse, invert, and transpose the normal meaning..of culture and society in such a way that they are appropriately given names of mismeaning for the nonsense or humor they create. 2000 Ecos (Brit. Assoc. Nature Conservationists) 21 108 Words are troublemakers; parasites; conveyors of mismeaning; screens between me and you. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mismeaningadj. Obsolete. rare. Wrong-thinking. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [adjective] > erring in opinion or belief mislevingc1390 erroneous1512 mismeaning1532 errorious1543 wide1547 deceived1569 errant1609 mislearned1642 pseudodoxalc1648 pseudodox1650 vicious1657 heterodox1658 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxlix v Heretykes and misse mening people. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.c1450adj.1532 |
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