misˈjudge, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To judge wrongly; to judge ill of; to have false opinions of.
| 1533 More Debell. Salem x. Wks. 952/2 And therefore no more mysse iudge any manne. 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 171 If you know the goodnesse of a mans life, mis-judge him not by any strangenesse of his death. c 1779 Johnson L.P., Waller (1868) 109 That Clarendon might misjudge the motive of his retirement is the more probable. 1891 E. Peacock N. Brendon II. 3 How you misjudge us women! |
b. absol. or intr. To err in judging; to form wrong opinions of.
| 1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 5 §23 And because no maner of person shall misjudge of thintent of this Estatute. 1678 Dryden All for Love ii. Wks. 1701 II. 70 You misjudge: You see through Love, and that deludes your sight. 1725 Pope Odyss. iv. 38 Too long, mis-judging, have I thought thee wise. 1868 Browning Ring & Bk. x. 1467 Have we misjudged here, over-armed our knight? |
So misˈjudged ppl. a., misjudging vbl. n. and ppl. a. (hence misˈjudgingly adv.).
| 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 64 Suspicyon or mis⁓iudgynge of that thynge that is vncertayne. 1598 Marston Sco. Villanie ii. vi. 199 Hence thou misiudging Censor. 1643 Milton Divorce (1645) A 2 b, Let me arreed him, not to be the foreman of any mis-judg'd opinion, unlesse his resolutions be firmly seated. 1677 Gilpin Demonol. III. ii. 10 All kind of distresses are obnoxious to the worst of misjudgings from malevolent minds. 1788 C. Smith Emmeline (1816) IV. 314 Did he not wish to see his misjudging father? 1836–7 Dickens Sk. Boz, Scenes xi, His graceful demeanour, stiff, as some misjudging persons have..considered it. 1838 Lytton Leila iii. i, ‘I did not read that face misjudgingly,’ thought the queen. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 153 The misjudging friends of liberty. |