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misˈthink, v. [f. mis-1 1 + think v.1] †1. intr. To have sinful thoughts. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 62 Ich habbe ivestned, seið Job, foreward mid min eien, þet ich ne misðenche. 1615Sylvester Job Triumph. xxxi. 458, I made a Covenant with my constant eyes, From gazing out on blazing vanities:..Why should I once mis-think upon a Maid? 2. To have mistaken thoughts; to think mistakenly (that..). Also misˈthinking vbl. n.
a1530Crt. of Love 483 Women..lightly set their plesire in a place; Whan they misthink, they lightly let it passe. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. iii, There is the note; and all the parts if I mis-thinke not. 1609F. Grevil Mustapha ii. ii, For ignorance begetteth cruelty, Misthinking each man, euery thing can be. a1631Donne Elegy on Mrs. Boulstred Poems (1654) 256 There would have been Some that would sinne, mis-thinking she did sinne. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 5 If I do not much mis-think. a1871De Morgan Budget (1872) 336 One..who takes misthinking from points of view which none but a student of history can occupy. 3. trans. To think ill of; to have a bad or unfavourable opinion of. Also intr. const. of, in the same sense.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. v. 108 How will the Country..Mis-thinke the King, and not be satisfied? 1606― Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 176. a 1634 Chapman Alphonsus ii. (1654) 14, I hope your grace will not mis-think of me, Who for your good..Bethought this means to set the world at Peace. 1843Lytton Last Bar. ii. ii, When I am gone, my liege..will not misthink me, will not listen to my foes. 4. With cognate obj.: To think bad thoughts.
a1618Sylvester Panaretus 1196 Wks. (Grosart) II. 134 Their People..can suffer nought 'Gainst them to be mis-done, mis-said, mis-thought. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 289 Thoughts, which how found they harbour in thy brest, Adam, missthought of her to thee so dear? |