单词 | mistell |
释义 | mistellv.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > miscalculate [verb (transitive)] mistella1475 mischargec1495 misreckon1524 miscount1548 miscast1605 misnumber1614 miscompute1637 mistake1704 miscalculate1727 under-estimate1812 a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 17618 (MED) Thys hand ek falsly beyth and sylleth, And in reknynge thys hand mystelleth. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 638/2 You have mystolde, for there was no lesse in the purce. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Triumph of Faith in tr. Deuine Weekes & Wks. 553 That Bizantian Prince, that did mis-tell A foure-fold Essence in the onely One. 1622 N. Breton Strange Newes in Wks. (1879) 5 Their prayers are all by the dozen, when if they miss-tell one, they thinke all the rest lost. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Mistellen, to Mistell, or to Miscount. 2. a. transitive. To relate or retell incorrectly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > report or state wrongly [verb (transitive)] misreportc1450 mistell1565 misrecite1573 misrelate1621 misstate1643 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare iv. 243 M. Hardinge mistelleth his authours tale, and auoucheth that, he neuer meante. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Mistel, to tell unfaithfully or inaccurately. 1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn I. xxix. 240 Let the story be ever so mistold. 1995 ‘Beyond NAFTA’ Conference Report—Full in misc.activism.progressive (Usenet newsgroup) 16 Mar. Community activists have had bad experiences when their time was wasted, knowledge appropriated without reciprocity, words distorted, stories mistold, and promises forgotten. b. transitive. To misinform. Now Scottish. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > inform (a person) > misinform misinforma1393 plum1561 mistell1674 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 141 One who could never mistake himself, nor mistel us. 1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 68 Noo! that minister had a wife o' his ain at hame, if A'm no mistell't. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1475 |
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