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Definition of Misdescribe
1. v. t. To describe wrongly.
Definition of Misdescribe
1. Verb. (transitive) To (incorrectly) (explain) or detail something or someone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misdescribe
1. [v -SCRIBED, -SCRIBING, -SCRIBES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdescribe
Literary usage of Misdescribe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"Not only does he, as in the last sentence, negatively misdescribe the character
of this Energy, but he positively misdescribes it. ..."
2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"The notice mnst not so misdescribe the instrument that the defendant may be led
to confound it with some other. Cook u. Litchfield, 5 Seld. (9 NY) 279. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"... and of all men living among us, so does Lord Hartington, though the last lacks
something which we misdescribe in using the ELEPHANTS AT WORK. ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... epitomize, gazetteer, detail, miniature, misdescribe, portraiture (rare), phrase.
2. See DELINEATE. description, n. 1. Describing in words: picturing, ..."
5. Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography by Julian Hawthorne (1884)
"Kiss in the Ring," too, you misdescribe, and make what is really a very pretty
game of forfeits when played with pretty people, to appear absolutely ..."
6. The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures by John Robert Seeley (1899)
"But we not only exaggerate our own share in the achievement; we at the same time
entirely misconceive and misdescribe the achievement itself. ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"If the notice, by mistake, misdescribe the party giving it, by representing that
it is given by or on behalf of A., when in reality it is given by or on ..."
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