misinˈstruct, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To instruct amiss.
| 1547–64 Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 147 When they haue beene..misinstructed..by a fawning and fleering flatterer. 1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlix. §3 Let vs not thinke that our Sauiour did misinstruct his disciples. 1843 Blackw. Mag. LIV. 31 He..subsides into the mere singing-master, to misinstruct the rising generation. |