▪ I. misˈteach, n.
[app. alteration of mistetch after next.]
Bad habit.
| 1842 G. S. Faber Prov. Lett. (1844) II. 100 What gave these members of our Church such an unlucky misteach, that [etc.]. |
▪ II. misteach, v.
(mɪsˈtiːtʃ)
[OE. mistǽcan: see mis-1 1 and teach v.]
trans. To teach or instruct badly or wrongly. Also, † to misdirect.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. (Th.) II. 50 ᵹif ða lareowas..mistæcað, oððe misbysniað, hi forpærað hi sylfe. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 475 Al-so he mistaȝte, also he schet. 1529 More Dyaloge iv. xi. Wks. 263/2 If thei should..blame the church for misteching the people. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. Argt., The Romaines..beyng fyrst misse taught & by false preachers deceiued. 1656 Hobbes Six Lessons Wks. 1845 VII. 316 When I think how dejected you will be..for misteaching the young men of the University. 1702 C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. 15 Their Teachers..had mistaught and mis-led the People. 1868 Gladstone Juv. Mundi x. (1870) 402 He is indeed mistaught with reference to the use of the strong hand. |
| absol. a 1661 Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 463 They did not only not teach in the Church, but misteach by their lascivious..behaviour. 1837 H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 295 Has not God his own ways..of teaching when man misteaches? |
b. To teach (a subject) badly.
| 1831 Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1840) III. 240 The New School, with all that it taught, untaught, and mistaught. |
Hence misˈteaching vbl. n.
| 1549 Coverdale etc. Erasm. Par. Gal. 1 Simplenes it was, that they were through misteachyng begiled. 1587 Golding De Mornay xvi. 306 The misteaching or misexample of the Parents. 1828 [see mistetch n.]. |