单词 | mistakable |
释义 | mistakableadj. Able to be mistaken, misapprehended, or misunderstood. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [adjective] > capable of misinterpretation misinterpretable1604 mistakable1646 misconstructive1649 misconstruablea1734 misapprehensible1829 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. i. 279 If wee consider how differently they are set forth in minor and lesse mistakeable numbers. View more context for this quotation 1653 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. Postscr. §32 Places of Scripture..mistakable by the Enthusiast. 1822 Examiner 341/1 The darkest and most mistakable parts of this drama. 1864 F. C. Bowen Logic (1870) xii. 388 The internal peculiarities of the malady, of which the outward symptoms are only the faint and easily mistakable indications. 1992 Rev. Eng. Stud. 43 186 Hope is mistakable for presumption. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > [noun] > leading into error > state of being misled mistakableness1665 misguidedness1809 misdirectedness1951 1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity 221 Supposing the notoriety of it secur'd the thing from mistakableness. miˈstakably adv. 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 1844 R. Browning Let. to Dowson 10 Mar. in Athenæum 18 July (1891) 108/1 The good fortune which appears slowly but not mistakably setting in upon me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1646 |
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