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Webster 1913 Edition


Misdeem

Mis-deem′

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Verb.
T.
To misjudge.
[Obs.]
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Misdeem

MISDEE'M

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Verb.
T.
To judge erroneously; to misjudge; to mistake in judging.

Definition 2024


misdeem

misdeem

English

Verb

misdeem (third-person singular simple present misdeems, present participle misdeeming, simple past and past participle misdeemed)

  1. To misjudge, to deem wrongly.
    • 1500s, Edmund Spenser, sonnet:
      The doubt which ye misdeem, fair love, is vain, / That fondly fear to lose your liberty; / []
    • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxxviii:
      Nor say I this for that I aught misdeem / That Egypt's promis'd succors fail us might.

References

  • misdeem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913