English

Verb

misderive ‎(third-person singular simple present misderives, present participle misderiving, simple past and past participle misderived)

1. (obsolete) To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect.
   • Bishop Joseph Hall

     […] this practice of impropriation, which was first set on foot by unjust and sacrilegious bulls from Rome, is justly offensive both to God and good men; as misderiving the well-meant devotions of charitable and pious souls into a wrong channel.

2. (obsolete) To derive erroneously.