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Misapprehend

Misapprehend \Mis*ap`pre*hend"\, v. t. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.
--Locke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
misapprehend

1640s, from mis- (1) + apprehend. Related: Misapprehended; misapprehending.

Wiktionary
misapprehend

vb. (context transitive English) To interpret incorrectly; to misunderstand.

WordNet
misapprehend

v. interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks" [syn: misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, misunderstand, be amiss]

Usage examples of "misapprehend".

A few ticks of the clock and you will have lived a century, and it occurs to you that you have misapprehended a good many things, that-for one-the difference you perceived between you and Maiko was merely a difference in terms.

Persons like Larcom do make such absurd blunders, and so misapprehend the conversation of educated people.

But to suppose the business done by calculation of that remarkable man is to misapprehend him altogether.

Jarndyce, that that gentleman may have done me the honour so far to misapprehend my character as to induce you to believe that you would not have been received by my local establishment in Lincolnshire with that urbanity, that courtesy, which its members are instructed to show to all ladies and gentlemen who present themselves at that house.

Our objection to living in this Union, and therefore the difficulty of reconstructing it, is not your Personal Liberty bills, not the Territorial question, but that you utterly and wholly misapprehend the Form of Government.

A similar false note is struck by any speaker or writer who misapprehends his position or forgets his disqualifications, by newspaper writers using language that is seemly only in one who stakes his life on his words, by preachers exceeding the license of fallibility, by moralists condemning frailty, by speculative traders deprecating frank ways of hazard, by Satan rebuking sin.

She was about to spirit you away here, and had slain the traitor Faurbuhl to prevent him from raising the hue and cry, when you were returned to your room that last evening at Earthfast and misapprehended all.

These cases are very different from that of the so-called Shroud of Turin, which shows something too close to a human form to be a misapprehended natural pattern and which is now suggested by carbon-14 dating to be not the death shroud of Jesus, but a pious hoax from the fourteenth century - a time when the manufacture of fraudulent religious relics was a thriving and profitable home handicraft industry.

He could say, you know, that the money was paid by you, and the payment had been made because your agents had misapprehended your instructions.

Madam, in the plainest language, without a possibility of my misapprehending him, Dr.

The nature of the double has long been misapprehended by Egyptologists, who had even made its name into a kind of pronominal form.

Madam, in the plainest language, without a possibility of my misapprehending him, Dr.

Jarndyce, that the gentleman to whom, for the reasons I have mentioned, I refrain from making further allusion-- it is possible, Mr. Jarndyce, that that gentleman may have done me the honour so far to misapprehend my character as to induce you to believe that you would not have been received by my local establishment in Lincolnshire with that urbanity, that courtesy, which its members are instructed to show to all ladies and gentlemen who present themselves at that house.

The Greek orator, by misapprehending a passage of Julian, has been induced to represent the Franks as consisting of a thousand men.

Outside, of course, Agba, misapprehending, added in response to Leo's horrified look.