mistranslatev.
/ˌmɪstranzˈleɪt/, /ˌmɪstransˈleɪt/, /ˌmɪstrɑːnzˈleɪt/, /ˌmɪstrɑːnsˈleɪt/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈtrænzˌleɪt/, /ˌmɪsˈtrænsˌleɪt/, /ˌmɪsˌtrænzˈleɪt/, /ˌmɪsˌtrænsˈleɪt/ transitive. To translate incorrectly.
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1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. (1557) 428/1 The tother word, which he hath also mistranslated of like malice ecclesia.
1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 32 Though the wordes may bee so properly translated, yet not to your minde so properly, that is, not so gently as you meant them, and therefore I did mistranslate them.
1645 T. Gataker Gods Eye on Israel 3 Which place..is..commonly mistranslated and mistaken by the most.
1718 D. Waterland Vindic. Christ's Divinity (1720) xxvii. 437 The learned Doctor by wrong Pointing and Mistranslating perverts a Passage of Justin Martyr.
1822 R. Southey Sel. Lett. III. 333 I do not mistranslate beau ideal when I write of the fair ideal of a work of art.
1855 E. B. Pusey Doctr. Real Presence 67 note E ‘Behold the blood of the covenant’, has been mistranslated, ‘This blood is the covenant’.
1943 Amer. Speech 18 95 The American ‘spectator~sports’ (of clothes) has been mistranslated in at least one advertisement [in New Zealand] as ‘spectacular-sports’.
1987 Observer 20 Sept. 3/4 (advt.) These problems are commonly mistranslated as ‘There's never enough time’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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