† miswrestv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To distort; to pervert; esp. to distort the meaning of (a text).
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > pervert or distort [verb (transitive)]
crooka1340
deprave1382
pervertc1390
strainc1449
drawc1450
miswrest?a1475
bewrya1522
wry?1521
to make a Welshman's hose ofa1529
writhea1533
wrest1533
invert1534
wring?1541
depravate1548
rack1548
violent1549
wrench1549
train1551
wreathe1556
throw1558
detorta1575
shuffle1589
wriggle1593
distortc1595
to put, set, place, etc. on the rack1599
twine1600
wire-draw1610
monstrify1617
screw1628
corrupt1630
gloss1638
torture1648
force1662
vex1678
refract1700
warp1717
to put a force upon1729
twist1821
ply1988
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > report or state wrongly [verb (transitive)] > lead into error, mislead
dwellc888
forlereOE
beleada1000
forleseOE
misteachOE
undergoc1000
mislearOE
misleadOE
bicharrea1100
bedwelec1205
overlead?c1225
misbihedec1300
miswendc1325
misguyc1375
miscounsel1389
misbeleadc1390
faitc1430
miswrest?a1475
misguide1480
scandalize1538
misadvise1548
misdraw1599
misdirect1603
traduce1613
to throw (also put) off the scenta1637
misswaya1640
undirect1647
mislight1648
widdlea1689
?a1475 Lessons of Dirige (Douce) 369 in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 133 All thys world now ys myswrest, To carpe thys, lorde, ayenst the.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 501/2 The heretikes wrested & misse construed the scripture (as we see that these heretikes much more mysse wrest it nowe).
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie lxx. 31 b Ye see how this Text hath bin miswrested.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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