Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdefine
Literary usage of Misdefine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"Most English dictionaries misdefine this word, which has two different significations:
one as a noun, the other as an adjective. ..."
2. The Idea of God: Historical, Critical, Constructive by Clarence Augustine Beckwith (1922)
"To which Matthew Arnold, wholly agreeing, adds: "God's wisdom and God's goodness —Ay,
but fools misdefine these till God knows them no more. ..."
3. Potter's American Monthly (1877)
"... significations of the term effigy—one who knew better than so to misdefine
the term, and yet not blessed with an antiquarian eye-glass for his art- eye, ..."
4. The Idea of God: Historical, Critical, Constructive by Clarence Augustine Beckwith (1922)
"To which Matthew Arnold, wholly agreeing, adds: "God's wisdom and God's goodness —Ay,
but fools misdefine these till God knows them no more. ..."
5. Paths to Power: Central Church Sermons by Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus (1905)
"Ay, but fools misdefine these till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness,
they are God !—what schools "Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore? ..."
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