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Misconceive \Mis`con*ceive"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Misconceived; p. pr. & vb. n. Misconceiving.] To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misunderstand; to misjudge; to misapprehend.
Those things which, for want of due consideration
heretofore, they have misconceived.
--Hooker.
Syn: To misapprehend; misunderstand; mistake.
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vb. (en-past of: misconceive)
Usage examples of "misconceived".
My thankfulness that she had misconceived the position stirred me to leave no stone unturned for the betterment of the destitute bill of fare.
When Manferic was alive, it was not proper to acknowledge a misconceived son.
Prutaj, that other continent he had never set pad on, where it was held that the hard work of Slah was misconceived, where present gratification was prized more than the future survival of the species.
Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.
The romantics and the modernists alike misconceived evolution in melioristic or moralizing terms.
Thus by opposites they could worship the true Godly form that they would all regain in another world, when the whole misconceived experiment had died away.
The dead being floating in front of him reminded him of the story of the Minotaur--a misconceived creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull.
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
She felt his understanding to envelop her little spirit with a soft and clear penetration, and that nothing she did or said could ever be misconceived more.
I think the reason why it is so often misconceived and misunderstood is because of the fact that it is a narrow path and is followed whole-heartedly by few.
Like me, he had opposed the Vietnam War, believing that it was misconceived and unwinnable.
Not in wanton orgy and obscenity, as the Middle Ages misconceived his desires, but in praise and in the deep, dark joy that issues forth from Blackness.