Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdefined
Literary usage of Misdefined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by G. W. Hastings, Andr. Edgar, Edw. Pears, Ch. W. Ryalls (1878)
"How ill, and often how falsely, have they defined or misdefined the rights and
duties which citizens have and owe in relation to each other ! ..."
2. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"... road-agent, cinch, live-wire and scab,M but he, too, mistook the meaning of
dead-beat, and in addition he misdefined bandwagon and substituted get-out, ..."
3. Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses and Reviews by John Tyndall (1915)
"... and, after the necessary antecedent wrangling, take its place among the
attributes of that ' universal mother' who has been so often misdefined. ..."
4. Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews by John Tyndall (1898)
"... and, after the necessary antecedent wrangling, take its place among the
attributes of that ' universal mother ' who has been so often misdefined. ..."
5. English Synonyms Discriminated by William Taylor (1856)
"These terms are rather antithetic than synonymous; but thev are misdefined by Dr.
Trusler. IMPEDIMENT. OBSTACLE. OBSTRUCTION. An impediment (in and pes) ..."
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