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To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly. Swift.

To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.

Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.

Erroneousness.

Erroneously.

To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.

To tell erroneously.

To have erroneous thoughts or judgment of; to think ill of. [Obs.] Shak.

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

To translate erroneously.

A false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result.

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

Any of several arthropods erroneously supposed to kill live stock, in the southern United States, by stinging or by being swallowed; as:

pider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii).

other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte.

So called because primrose was (erroneously, it is said) taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.

re in a calculation or arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence, to reckon erroneously.

To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders. I meant to rectify my conscience. Shak. This was an error of opinion which a conflicting opinion would have rectified. Burke.…

Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.

ove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant. There were so many witnesses in these two miracles that it is impossible to refute such multitudes. Addiso…