Definition of Misdefined

1. misdefine [v] - See also: misdefine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdefined

misdealing
misdeals
misdealt
misdeed
misdeeds
misdeem
misdeemed
misdeeming
misdeems
misdefend
misdefended
misdefending
misdefends
misdefense
misdefine
misdefined (current term)
misdefines
misdefining
misdeliver
misdemean
misdemeanant
misdemeanants
misdemeaned
misdemeaning
misdemeanor
misdemeanors
misdemeanour
misdemeanours
misdemeans
misdempt

Literary usage of Misdefined

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by G. W. Hastings, Andr. Edgar, Edw. Pears, Ch. W. Ryalls (1878)
"How ill, and often how falsely, have they defined or misdefined the rights and duties which citizens have and owe in relation to each other ! ..."

2. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"... road-agent, cinch, live-wire and scab,M but he, too, mistook the meaning of dead-beat, and in addition he misdefined bandwagon and substituted get-out, ..."

3. Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses and Reviews by John Tyndall (1915)
"... and, after the necessary antecedent wrangling, take its place among the attributes of that ' universal mother' who has been so often misdefined. ..."

4. Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews by John Tyndall (1898)
"... and, after the necessary antecedent wrangling, take its place among the attributes of that ' universal mother ' who has been so often misdefined. ..."

5. English Synonyms Discriminated by William Taylor (1856)
"These terms are rather antithetic than synonymous; but thev are misdefined by Dr. Trusler. IMPEDIMENT. OBSTACLE. OBSTRUCTION. An impediment (in and pes) ..."

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