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Mistaken obedience; disobedience. [Obs.] Milton.

Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived. Sir T. Browne.

Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error. [Obs.] Spenser.

To ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

Mistakenly zealous. [Obs.]

Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste. Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests. Pope.

Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.

perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken. Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will. Milton. The same actions may be aimed at different ends, and arise from quite contrary principles. Spectator.

According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith. You are right, Justice, and you weigh this well. Shak. If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is . . . right, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we…

Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.

o state one's views of the policy which ought to be pursued. To give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty. Locke.

Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.

Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede. [Obs.] Years yead away and faces fair deflower. Drant.