misapprehendv.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxix. sig. Y^v Hee..was by mis-apprehending the Word, put backe in a violent flight.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wilts. 155 Country-People who live far off in our Land misapprehend them (distanced more then 12 miles) to be near together.

1704 F. Atterbury Rule of Doing 9 Here is a Law, attended with none of these Inconveniences; the Grossest Minds cannot misapprehend it.

1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury xiii. 157 With regard to prodigality at least, I am certain I do not misapprehend you.

1856 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. (ed. 3) I. ii. 61 Let me not be misapprehended as giving our knowledge for more than it is actually worth.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 218 I do not think that I misapprehend your meaning.

1920 Polit. Sci. Q. 35 132 Even such an elemental instinct as that of sex seems to be entirely misapprehended.

1951 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 22 241/2 Ofttimes our staunchest friends in the community of nations misapprehend our motives, and..their citizens form a distorted picture of the United States.

1994 William & Mary Q. 51 838 Emerson and Parker..seemed not to mind that their more profound utterances were rapturously misapprehended as self-help maxims.

1658 T. Wall Comment on Times (new ed.) 42 To mis~apprehend, denotes a man. Tis head-strong persistance that degrades him into a Beast.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It App. C. 585 However honest a man may be, every one is liable to misapprehend.

1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ i. 13 I thought you..would understand. You misapprehended.

1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 288 I worried too that he might misapprehend and take offense at the ménage à trois of sorts in The Floating Opera.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iv. 13 Fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums.

1886 N.Y. School Jrnl. 31 259 The most misapprehended word in all modern educational literature is the word, ‘method’.

1997 San Francisco Chron. 5 Mar. e2 The plot's carpentry is so much scaffolding to festoon with wordplay, theatrical in-jokes, sight gags, misapprehended dialogue, [etc.].

1702 Sir G. Kneller in Pepys' Diary VI. 237 I ask your pardon for Misapprehending.

1988 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 19 May v. 18/3 Novels tend to incorporate the sandwich between themselves. Displacements of style, ways of apprehending or misapprehending, identities concealed or revealed, [etc.].