Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To teach wrongly; instruct erroneously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
teach incorrectly.
Etymologies
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From Middle English mistechen, from Old English mistǣċan ("to teach amiss, teach falsely"), equivalent to mis- + teach.
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