| 单词 | upon mistake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasupon mistake P2. in (also under, †upon) a mistake: under a misapprehension. Also †upon mistake. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [adverb] beside (or wide of) the cushion1576 in (also under, upon) a mistake1622 mistakenly1660 misunderstandinglya1667 mistakably1844 misapprehendingly1862 misapprehensively1862 1622 L. Digges tr. G. de Céspedes y Meneses Gerardo 325 Still some feare of my misfortune remained: and that, I hold to bee the seuerest, when vpon mistake, worse faults are discouered. 1683 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1867) I. 460 It may be I may be upon a mistake, but, according to what I know and belive, I am falsely indited. 1683 H. Prideaux in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 185 That you may be under noe mistake as to him. 1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 44 For what is Vice? Self-Love in a Mistake. 1777 Bentley's Phal. 328 (note) Gronovius was under a mistake, in supposing the Romans had no such sum as a Talent in their accounts. a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. P. Calderon Scenes from Magico Prodigioso in Posthumous Poems (1824) 364 You lie—under a mistake. 1839 Standard 12 Apr. Some timid conservatives..labour in the same mistake. 1883 W. D. Latto Bodkin Papers ii. 17 Never was I in a greater mistak' in a' my life. 1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 29 457 There was no evidence that the lease was executed under any mistake. 1944 W. T. Cresswell in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder xv. 419/1 A contract made under a mistake may be avoided. < as lemmas |
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