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Definition of Mislearned
1. mislearn [v] - See also: mislearn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mislearned
Literary usage of Mislearned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1895)
"I seriously asked myself whether the lesson had not been mislearned, and against
my own judgment, (may God forgive me !) I again tried alcohol. ..."
2. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"A dreadful example is afforded by those schools and cloisters where they not only
have mislearned the Gospel, but have fallen into a rotten Latin and German ..."
3. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1872)
"Hut it spent itself in dramatic effects with lucifer matches, and I learned
nothing from it, and the public mislearned much. It ended, (no, I believe it ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"To learn wrongly or amiss. mislearned (mis-lér'ned), pa [< mis-1 + learned.']
Not truly or wisely learned. Such is this which you have here propounded on ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1875)
"Unlearn," such were his requirements from a neophyte, " what grossness you have
mislearned before. Purge your mind from every prejudice and vicious habit, ..."
6. The Castles and Keeps of Scotland: Being a Description of Sundry Fortresses by Frank Roy Fraprie (1907)
"... and the latter part of the king's observation is proverbial in the town, it
being common to say to a mislearned or ill- conditioned person, ..."
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