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▪ I. ˌmisunderˈstand, n. rare—1.
[f. next.]
Misunderstanding.
1864Meredith Sandra Belloni xxvi, No misunderstands, mind! Wilfrid's done with.
▪ II. ˌmisunderˈstand, v.
[mis-1 1.]
1. trans. Not to understand rightly; to misconceive, miscomprehend.
a. To take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense.
c1200Vices & Virtues 37 Sume mis-understondet hier ðis hali writt. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 123 Þei mysundirstonden þer lawe. 1529More Dyaloge i. xxi. Wks. 147/2 That some of them which do rede it diligently..may yet for al that, mistake & misvnderstand it. 1614Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. §9 He failed in distinguishing these two Regions, both called Eden: and..mis⁓vnderstood two of the foure Riuers (to wit) Pison and Gehon. 1629H. Burton Truth's Triumph 310 It is plaine hee mis-vnderstandeth..the place. 1778F. Burney Evelina xxi, His booby of a servant had misunderstood his orders. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest i, His sense of compassion was too sincere to be misunderstood. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. xxi. (1875) 381 To praise or to decry the Empire as a despotic power is to misunderstand it altogether. 1873Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art Addenda 223 He must say all he has to say..in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.
b. To misinterpret the words or actions of (a person).
a1300Cursor M. 19152 Iesu þat yee did on rode, þat alwais yee mis-vnderstode. 1530Palsgr. 639/1 He that mys⁓vnderstandeth a man must nedes make a folysshe answere. 1680W. Allen Addr. Nonconf. 69 When Nicodemus grosly mis-understood our Saviour, and demanded how can these things be? 1791Cumberland Observer No. 140 V. 151, I conceive I have been misunderstood as having carried my attack against the moral doctrines of Socrates. 1837Lytton E. Maltrav. 13 My poor girl, we misunderstand each other. 1841Emerson Ess., Self-reliance Ser. i. 58 To be great is to be misunderstood. 1847–9Helps Friends in C. (1851) I. 30 The question is, will people misunderstand you—not, is the language logically impregnable?
2. intr. Also with clause.
13..Cursor M. 14207 (Gott.) Iesus said, ‘ȝe mis-vnderstand’ [Cott. miss yee vnderstand]. Ibid. 15922 ‘Yoene..es ane of his þat wid vs es in band’. ‘Ebberthwert nai’, said he, ‘ȝe misunderstand’ [Cott. yee mis nu vnderstand]. 1822Cobbett Weekly Reg. 2 Feb. 295 The effects of the system were so manifest, that nobody could misunderstand whence they sprung. 1906Kipling Puzzler in Tribune 15 Jan. 4/3 Giuseppe placed the monkey atop of the organ, where the beast, misunderstanding, stood on his head.
Hence misunderˈstandable a., capable of being misunderstood.
1843P. Parley's Ann. IV. 266 The old mamma grunted and looked very misunderstandable through her grey eyes. |