单词 | misconstruable |
释义 | misconstruableadj. Misinterpretable.In quot. a1734 in legal context: cf. construe v. 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [adjective] > capable of misinterpretation misinterpretable1604 mistakable1646 misconstructive1649 misconstruablea1734 misapprehensible1829 a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §160. 113 If he had been taken up, as a presupposed Prostitute, out of the Goal,..it had been misconstruable. 1955 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 21 103/1 The much greater time depths of the Salish than of the Hokan languages would be misconstruable in the abstract, as indicative of less proneness to..change. 1976 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 9 137 The author actually allows other sociologically misconstruable (yet never defined) concepts to enter the discussion virtually unannounced. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1734 |
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