单词 | misrecite |
释义 | misrecitev. Chiefly Law. Now rare. transitive. To recite, relate, or describe incorrectly; to give an inaccurate account of. Also intransitive. 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 1573 R. Brooke Abridgement II. f. 122v Nota si home in accion ou pleading allege statute, & ceo misrecite in matter..lauter poet demurer generalment. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 193 If the Gracians doo not miss-recite. a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 97 The reference of the Pattent, the date whereof was mis-recited. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. f. 46 v If a man..mis~recite a lease in point materiall which is in esse. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 639 They [sc. words] were often ill heard and ill understood, and were apt to be misrecited by a very small variation. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xii. 286 The committee reported on the 29th of March, after mis-reciting the order of reference to them in a very remarkable manner. 1854 R. L. Sheil Sketches Irish Bar I. 217 Still less would he be disposed to misquote and to misrecite—to warp the facts, and to throw dust into the eyes of justice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1573 |
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