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Webster 1913 Edition
Misdeem
Mis-deem′
,Verb.
T.
To misjudge.
[Obs.]
Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Misdeem
MISDEE'M
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
misdeem
misdeem
English
Verb
misdeem (third-person singular simple present misdeems, present participle misdeeming, simple past and past participle misdeemed)
- To misjudge, to deem wrongly.
- 1500s, Edmund Spenser, sonnet:
- The doubt which ye misdeem, fair love, is vain, / That fondly fear to lose your liberty; / […]
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxxviii:
- Nor say I this for that I aught misdeem / That Egypt's promis'd succors fail us might.
- 1500s, Edmund Spenser, sonnet:
References
- misdeem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913