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To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly. -- Mis*cal`cu*la"tion, n.

To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.

To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak.

To cast or reckon wrongly.

To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.

To choose wrongly. Milton.

To christen wrongly.

Wrong collocation. De Quincey.

To give a wrong color to; figuratively, to set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts. C. Kingsley.

To get a wrong idea of or about; to misunderstand.

To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend. Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. Hooker.

Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding. Harvey.

Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison.

Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting. [R.] Bp. Hall.

A wrong conjecture or guess. Sir T. Browne.

Wrong consecration.

A wrong consequence; a false deduction.

To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.

Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously. Do not, great sir, misconstrue his intent. Dryden. Much afflicted to find his actions misconstrued. Addison.