misˈthink, v.
[f. mis-1 1 + think v.1]
† 1. intr. To have sinful thoughts. Obs.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 62 Ich habbe ivestned, seið Job, foreward mid min eien, þet ich ne misðenche. 1615 Sylvester Job Triumph. xxxi. 458, I made a Covenant with my constant eyes, From gazing out on blazing vanities:..Why should I once mis-think upon a Maid? |
2. To have mistaken thoughts; to think mistakenly (that..). Also misˈthinking vbl. n.
| a 1530 Crt. of Love 483 Women..lightly set their plesire in a place; Whan they misthink, they lightly let it passe. 1599 B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. iii, There is the note; and all the parts if I mis-thinke not. 1609 F. Grevil Mustapha ii. ii, For ignorance begetteth cruelty, Misthinking each man, euery thing can be. a 1631 Donne Elegy on Mrs. Boulstred Poems (1654) 256 There would have been Some that would sinne, mis-thinking she did sinne. 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 5 If I do not much mis-think. a 1871 De Morgan Budget (1872) 336 One..who takes misthinking from points of view which none but a student of history can occupy. |
3. trans. To think ill of; to have a bad or unfavourable opinion of. Also intr. const. of, in the same sense.
| 1593 Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. v. 108 How will the Country..Mis-thinke the King, and not be satisfied? 1606 ― Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 176. a 1634 Chapman Alphonsus ii. (1654) 14, I hope your grace will not mis-think of me, Who for your good..Bethought this means to set the world at Peace. 1843 Lytton Last Bar. ii. ii, When I am gone, my liege..will not misthink me, will not listen to my foes. |
4. With cognate obj.: To think bad thoughts.
| a 1618 Sylvester Panaretus 1196 Wks. (Grosart) II. 134 Their People..can suffer nought 'Gainst them to be mis-done, mis-said, mis-thought. 1667 Milton P.L. ix. 289 Thoughts, which how found they harbour in thy brest, Adam, missthought of her to thee so dear? |