Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To reckon incorrectly; miscalculate.
- intransitive verb To engage in incorrect reckoning or miscalculation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reckon or compute erroneously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To add (something) up incorrectly, make a
wrong calculation of (an amount etc.). - verb reflexive, obsolete To make a wrong calculation, to be in
error .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And whereas some have attributed the dominion to the man only, as being of the more excellent sex, they misreckon in it.
Leviathan 2007
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If I do not misreckon foully the queen spoke of both seeing and speaking with him during her progress hither.
In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Lucy Foster Madison 1898
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I here, by the unexampled favour you stand in with our Sage, send not a Biography only, but an Autobiography: at least the materials for such; wherefrom, if I misreckon not, your perspicacity will draw fullest insight: and so the whole Philosophy and Philosopher of Clothes will stand clear to the wondering eyes of England, nay thence, through
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Moreover, he had the art to misreckon men in their accounts, whether by weight, or measure, or money, and would often do it to his worldly advantage, and their loss.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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And whereas some have attributed the dominion to the man only, as being of the more excellent sex, they misreckon in it.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
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And whereas some have attributed the Dominion to the Man onely, as being of the more excellent Sex; they misreckon in it.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) acknowledged that his arguments for rough equality among humans apply to women: “whereas some have attributed the dominion [over children] to the man only, as being of the more excellent sex; they misreckon in it.
Marriage and Domestic Partnership Brake, Elizabeth 2009
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“Look to yourself, Master Varney,” said Foster, “you may misreckon foully in this matter.
Kenilworth 2004
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"Look to yourself, Master Varney," said Foster, "you may misreckon foully in this matter.
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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