▪ I. misconˈceit, n. Now arch.
[mis-1 4.]
= misconception. (Common in the 17th c.)
1576 in Grindal's Wks. (Parker Soc.) 408 To remove the scrupulousness and misconceits of some few. 1596 Spenser F.Q. iv. vi. 2 Full of melancholie and sad misfare Through misconceipt. a 1600 Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. (1648) 119 A misconceit whereby they imagine every act which they doe knowing that they doe amisse..to bee mere sinne against the Holy Ghost. 1635 Sibbes Confer. Christ & Mary (1656) 4 She had a misconceipt of Christ, as if he had been the gardiner. a 1716 South Serm. (1744) VII. ii. 40 That general misconceit of the Jews, about the kingdom of the Messiah. 1855 Singleton Virgil II. 172 Whether is it by misconceit of course, Or driv'n by storms..Ye've come within the margents of our flood. 1870 Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 105 Taintless of jealousy or misconceit. |
▪ II. misconˈceit, v. arch.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To have a wrong conception or false idea of; to think erroneously (that..).
1595 Munday John a Kent (Shaks. Soc.) 20 You wrong them, madame, if you misconceite That you or they shall be unnobly usde. 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe 73 If you would not misconceit that I studiously intended your defamation. 1606 J. Ford Honor Triumphant (Shaks. Soc.) 5 Else had I misconceited mine owne hopes, and beene gravelled in mine owne conceipts. 1677 Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 176 If this humour..misconceit inspiration or prophecy. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus xvi. 4 You that..Misconceit me, sophisticate me wanton. |