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misreˈlate, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To relate or recount incorrectly. Also absol. So misreˈlating vbl. n., misreˈlation, incorrect relation or account; also misreˈlated ppl. a., wrongly related or connected.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 489 It could not be, you should so often mistake, or mis-relate, if you had trusted your owne eyes. 1625― App. Cæsar 118 Historicall mistakings, misrelatings. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. ii. (1673) 4 That if any thing were either omitted or misrelated, it might be rectified. a1663Bramhall Def. True Liberty Ep. Ded., To press home those things in writing..(a course much to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being..less subject to mistakes and misrelations). 1674Hickman Quinquart. Hist. (ed. 2) 226 Some things done in England, and misrelated by the Doctor, must be rectified. 1892Pall Mall G. 16 July 3/1 Here are two flagrantly misrelated participles. |