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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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87 words match “WRONGLY”

MISASSIGN v.
To assign wrongly.
MISBEAR v.
To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MISBELIEVER n.
One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion. Shak.
MISCALCULATE v.
To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly. -- Mis*cal`cu*la"tion, n.
MISCAST v.
To cast or reckon wrongly.
MISCHOOSE v.
To choose wrongly. Milton.
MISCHRISTEN v.
To christen wrongly.
MISCONCEIVE v.
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.
MISCONFIDENT a.
Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting. [R.] Bp. Hall.
MISCONJECTURE v.
To conjecture wrongly.
MISCONSTRUCT v.
To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.
MISCONSTRUE v.
To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously. Do not, great sir, misconstrue his intent. Dryden. Much afflicted to find his actions misconstrued. Addison.
MISCOUNSEL v.
To counsel or advise wrongly.
MISDEAL v.
To deal or distribute wrongly, as cards; to make a wrong distribution.
MISDEPART v.
To distribute wrongly. [Obs.] He misdeparteth riches temporal. Chaucer.
MISDESCRIBE v.
To describe wrongly.
MISDIRECTION n.
The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
MISDIVIDE v.
To divide wrongly.
MISDO v.
To do wrongly. Afford me place to show what recompense To wards thee I intend for what I have misdone. Milton.
MISENTER v.
To enter or insert wrongly, as a charge in an account.
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