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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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429 words match “WRONG”

MISTREATMENT n.

Wrong treatment.

To think wrongly. [Obs.]

To tune wrongly.

MISUNDERSTAND v.

To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

Wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use. Words little suspected for any such misuse. Locke.

To value wrongly or too little; to undervalue. But for I am so young, I dread my work Wot be misvalued both of old and young. W. Browne.

To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A wrong way. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To go wrong; to go astray. [Obs.] "The world is miswent." Gower.

MISWORD v. 2 definitions

To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.

MISWORSHIP n. 2 definitions

Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.

MISWORSHIPER n.

One who worships wrongly.

MORAL a. 4 definitions

ting to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right…

nce of zoology alone. -- Natural law, that instinctive sense of justice and of right and wrong, which is native in mankind, as distinguished from specifically revealed divine law, and formulated human law. -- Natural modulation (Mus.), transition from one key to its relative keys. -- Natural order. (Nat. Hist.) See…

Naughtily; wrongly. [Obs.] because my parents naughtly brought me up. Mir. for Mag.

mmiting one sin on the neck of another." W. Perkins. -- Stiff neck, obstinacy in evil or wrong; inflexible obstinacy; contumacy. "I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck." Deut. xxxi. 27. -- To break the neck of, to destroy the main force of. "What they presume to borrow from her sage and virtuous rules... breaks th…

has been last touched by one of his own side behind him. -- To be off color, to be of a wrong color. -- To be off one's food, to have no appetite. (Colloq.)

I shall offend, either to detain or give it. Shak. To offend against, to do an injury or wrong to; to commit an offense against. "We have offended against the Lord already." 2 Chron. xxviii. 13.

One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer. I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. 1 Kings i. 21.

Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act. [R.]