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Definition of Misconceive

1. Verb. Interpret in the wrong way. "Sam and Sue misconceive the movie "; "She misconstrued my remarks"

Definition of Misconceive

1. v. t. & i. To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend.

Definition of Misconceive

1. Verb. to misunderstand ¹

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Definition of Misconceive

1. [v -CEIVED, -CEIVING, -CEIVES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misconceive

Literary usage of Misconceive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Crisis: Or, Essays on the Usurpations of the Federal Government by Robert James Turnbull, Brutus (1827)
"... the evils which attend these discussions, is, that our slaves instantly misconceive the object of the discussions, and turn it to mischievous purposes. ..."

2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"far more important to those who are charged with its government, not to misconceive its facts, than to shape their measures by the rules of a theory. ..."

3. Texas and the Massachusetts Resolutions by Charles Francis Adams (1843)
"State by any policy which he introduces into the administration, then did George Washington greatly misconceive what that policy ought to he, in the legacy ..."

4. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from by Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers (1824)
"To misconceive, va To misjudge; to have a false notion of. Spenser. To misconceive, a. «.To entertain a mistaken notion: have a wrong idea, 't Mace, in. ..."

5. England: With Sketches of Society in the Metropolis by James Fenimore Cooper (1837)
"We misconceive the character of aristocracy quite as much as they misconceive the character of democracy. Both are essentially tempered by the spirit of the ..."

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