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ce; instruction. I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised. Shak. It was ill counsel had misled the girl. Tennyson.

Subject to deceit; capable of being misled. Blind, and thereby deceivable. Milton.

Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child.

The state of being deceived or misled. There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception. South.

The state of being deluded or misled.

Misleading; misled; mistaking. [Obs.] An erroneous conscience commands us to do what we ought to omit. Jer. Taylor.

that. "Some things they do in that they are men . . . ; some things in that they are men misled and blinded with error." Hooker. -- In the name of, in behalf of; on the part of; by authority; as, it was done in the name of the people; -- often used in invocation, swearing, praying, and the like. -- To be in for it.…

Alone, or in want of company; forsaken. To the misled and lonely traveler. Milton.

ifferent; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic. Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem. Dryden. Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations. Locke.

g adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge. Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man. Macaulay.

Deceived or misled respecting one's self by one's own mistake or error.

ty; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument. Misled for a moment by the specious names of religion, liberty, and property. Macaulay. In consequence of their greater command of specious expression. J. Morley.

Misdirected; misled; led astray. [R.]

Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted. Misled by ill example, and a winsome nature. Jeffrey.