Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 56
Mismanage (v. t. & i.) 對……管理不善；對……處置失當；辦錯 To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
Mismanage (v.) Manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged" [syn: {mismanage}, {mishandle}, {misconduct}].
Mismanage (v.) [ T ] 對…管理不善；對…處置不當 To organize or control something badly.
// The restaurant was hopelessly mismanaged by a former rock musician with no business experience.
Mismanagement (n.) 管理不善；處置失當 Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
Mismanagement (n.) Management that is careless or inefficient; "he accomplished little due to the mismanagement of his energies" [syn: {mismanagement}, {misdirection}].
Mismanager (n.) One who manages ill.
Mismark (v. t.) To mark wrongly.
Mismark (v. t.) To mark incorrectly; err in noting or marking.
Mismatch (v. t.) To match unsuitably.
Mismatch (n.) A bad or unsuitable match.
Mismatch (v.) Match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together.
Mismate (v. t.) To mate wrongly or unsuitably; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.
Mismate (v.) Provide with an unsuitable mate.
Mismeasure (v. t.) To measure or estimate incorrectly.
Mismeasurement (n.) Wrong measurement.
Mismeter (v. t.) To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. [R.] -- Chaucer.
Misname (v. t.) To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.
Misname (v.) Assign in incorrect name to; "These misnamed philanthropists" [syn: misname, miscall].
Misnomer (v. t.) To misname. [R.]
Misnomer (n.) 誤稱；人名誤載；寫錯姓名 The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.
Many of the changes, by a great misnomer, called parliamentary "reforms". -- Burke.
The word "synonym" is fact a misnomer. -- Whately.
Misnomer (n.) An incorrect or unsuitable name.
Misnumber (v. t.) To number wrongly.
Misnumber (v.) [With object] Number incorrectly.
[As adjective M isnumbered] ‘Missing or misnumbered pages.’
Misnurture (v. t.) To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children. -- Bp. Hall.
Misobedience (n.) Mistaken obedience; disobedience. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Misobserve (v. t.) To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. -- Locke.
Misobserver (n.) One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.
Misogamist (n.) 厭惡結婚的人 A hater of marriage.
Misogamist (n.) A person who hates marriage.
Misogamy (n.) 【心】厭惡結婚 Hatred of marriage.
Misogynist (n.) 【心】厭惡女人的人；仇恨女性的人 A woman hater. Contrast misandrist. -- Fuller.
Misogynist (n.) A misanthrope who dislikes women in particular [syn: misogynist, woman hater].
Misogynous (a.) 厭惡女人的 Hating women. having deep-seated distrust of women; -- used of men.
Misogynous (a.) Hating women in particular [syn: misogynous, misogynistic].
Misogyny (n.) Hatred of women. Contrast misandry. -- Johnson.
Misogyny (n.) Hatred of women [syn: misogyny, misogynism] [ant: philogyny].
Misology (n.) Hatred of argument or discussion; hatred of enlightenment. -- G. H. Lewes.
Misology (n.) Hatred of reasoning.
Misopinion (n.) Wrong opinion. [Obs.]
Misorder (v. t.) To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Misorder (n.) Irregularity; disorder. [Obs.] -- Camden.
Misorderly (a.) Irregular; disorderly. [Obs.]
Misordination (n.) Wrong ordination.
Misotheism (n.) Hatred of God. -- De Quincey.
Mispaint (v. t.) To paint ill, or wrongly.
Mispassion (n.) Wrong passion or feeling. [Obs.]
Mispay (v. t.) To dissatisfy. [Obs.] Mispell
Mispell (v. t.) Alt. of Mispend.
Mispend (v. t.) See Misspell, Misspend, etc.
Mispense (n.) See Misspense. -- Bp. Hall.
Misperception (n.) Erroneous perception.
Mispersuade (v. t.) To persuade amiss.
Mispersuasion (n.) A false persuasion; wrong notion or opinion. -- Dr. H. More.
Mispickel (n.) [G.] (Min.) 【礦】毒砂；砷黃鐵礦 Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
Compare: Arsenopyrite
Arsenopyrite (n.) (Min.) 【礦】毒砂；砷黃鐵礦 A mineral of a tin-white color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel.
Mispickel (n.) A silver-white or grey ore of arsenic [syn: arsenopyrite, mispickel].
Misplaced (imp. & p. p.) of Misplace.
Misplacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misplace.
Misplace (v. t.) To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
Misplace (v. t.) To place in a location that one does not recall; to mislay; to lose.
Misplace (v.) place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses" [syn: misplace, mislay, lose].
Misplace (v.) Place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position; "misplaced modifiers".
Misplacement (n.) The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.
Misplacement (n.) Faulty position [syn: malposition, misplacement].
Misplead (v. i.) To err in pleading.
Mispleading (n.) (Law) An error in pleading.
Mispleading. () Pleading incorrectly, or omitting anything in pleading which is essential to the support or defence of an action, is so called.
Mispleading. () Pleading not guilty to an action of debt, is an example of the first; and when the plaintiff sets out a title not simply in a defective manner, but sets out a defective title, is an example of the second. See 3 Salk. 365.
Mispoint (v. t.) To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.
Mispolicy (n.) Wrong policy; impolicy.
Mispractice (n.) Wrong practice.
Mispraise (v. t.) To praise amiss.
Misprint (v. t.) To print wrong ; to make a mistake in printing.
Misprint (n.) A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints. Misprints are sometimes noted and corrected in a list of corrigenda distributed with a book.
Misprint (n.) A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind [syn: misprint, erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal].
Misprint (v.) Print incorrectly.
Misprise (v. t.) See Misprize. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Misprise (v. t.) To mistake. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Misprision (n.) The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake. [Archaic] -- Fuller.
The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion. -- Hare.
Misprision (n.) Neglect; undervaluing; contempt. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Misprision (n.) (Law) A neglect, negligence, or contempt.
Note: In its larger and older sense it was used to signify "every considerable misdemeanor which has not a certain name given to it in the law." -- Russell.
In a more modern sense it is applied exclusively to two offenses:
Misprision of treason, Which is omission to notify the authorities of an act of treason by a person cognizant thereof. -- Stephen.
Misprision of felony, Which is a concealment of a felony by a person cognizant thereof. -- Stephen.
Misprision, () crim. law. 1. In its larger sense, this word is used to signify every considerable misdemeanor, which has not a certain name given to it in the law; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every treason or felony whatever. 2. In its narrower sense it is the concealment of a crime.
Misprision, () Misprision of treason, is the concealment of treason, by being merely passive; Act of Congress of April 30, 1790, 1 Story's L. U. S. 83; 1 East, P. C. 139; for if any assistance be given, to the traitor, it makes the party a principal, as there is no accessories in treason.
Misprision, () Misprision of felony, is the like concealment of felony, without giving any degree of maintenance to the felon; Act of Congress of April 30, 1790, s. 6, 1 Story's L. U. S. 84; for if any aid be given him, the party becomes an accessory after the fact.
Misprision, () It is the duty of every good citizen, knowing of a treason or felony having been committed; to inform a magistrate. Silently to observe the commission of a felony, without using any endeavors to apprehend the offender, is a misprision. 1 Russ. on Cr. 43; Hawk. P. C. c. 59, s. 6; Id. Book 1, c. s. 1; 4 Bl. Com. 119.
Misprision, () Misprisions which are merely positive, are denominated contempts or high misdemeanors; as, for example, dissuading a witness from giving evidence. 4 Bl. Com. 126.
Misprize (v. t.) To slight or undervalue.
O, for those vanished hours, so much misprized! -- Hillhouse.
I do not blame them, madam, nor misprize. -- Mrs. Browning.
Misproceeding (n.) Wrong or irregular proceding.
Misprofess (v. i.) To make a false profession; to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed.
Misprofess (v. t.) To make a false profession of.
Mispronounced (imp. & p. p.) of Mispronounce.
Mispronouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mispronounce.
Mispronounce (v. t. & i.) To pronounce incorrectly.
Mispronunciation (n.) Wrong or improper pronunciation.
Mispronunciation (n.) Incorrect pronunciation.
Misproportion (v. t.) To give wrong or unesthetic proportions to; to join without due proportion; as, the legs were misrpoportioned to the body.
Misproportion (n.) An improper or unesthetic proportion.
Misproud (a.) Viciously proud. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Mispunctuate (v. t.) To punctuate wrongly or incorrectly.
Misquotation (n.) Erroneous or inaccurate quotation.
Misquotation (n.) An incorrect quotation [syn: misquotation, misquote].
Misquote (v. t. & i.) To quote erroneously or incorrectly. -- Shak.
Misquote (n.) An incorrect quotation [syn: misquotation, misquote].
Misquote (v.) Quote incorrectly; "He had misquoted the politician".
Misraise (v. t.) To raise or exite unreasonable.
To raise or excite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." -- Bp. Hall.
Misrate (v. t.) To rate erroneously.
Misread (imp. & p. p.) of Misread.
Misreading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misread.
Misread (v. t.) To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.
Misread (v.) Read or interpret wrongly; "He misread the data".
Misread (v.) Interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!" [syn: misread, misinterpret].
Misreceive (v. t.) To receive wrongly.
Misrecital (n.) An inaccurate recital.
Misrecital, () contracts, pleading. The incorrect recital of a matter of fact, either in an agreement or a plea; under the latter term is here understood the declaration and all the subsequent pleadings. Vide Recital, and the cases there cited; and Bac. Ab. Pleas, & c. B. 5, n. 3.
Misrecite (v. t. & i.) To recite erroneously.
Misreckon (v. t. & i.) To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate. -- Swift.
Misreckoning (n.) An erroneous computation.
Misreckoning (n.) A mistake in calculating [syn: miscalculation, misreckoning, misestimation].
Misrecollect (v. t. & i.) To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. -- Hitchcock.
Misrecollection (n.) Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
Misreform (v. t.) To reform wrongly or imperfectly.
Misregard (n.) Wrong understanding; misconstruction. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Misregulate (v. t.) To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.
Misrehearse (v. t.) To rehearse or quote incorrectly. -- Sir T. More.
Misrelate (v. t.) To relate inaccurately.
Misrelation (n.) Erroneous relation or narration. -- Abp. Bramhall.
Misreligion (n.) False religion. [R.]
Misremember (v. t. & i.) To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.
Misrender (v. t.) To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.
Misrepeat (v. t.) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
Misreport (v. t. & i.) To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of.
Misreport (n.) An erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given.
Misrepresent (v. t.) 誤傳；歪曲；不合適地代表 To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly. -- Swift.
Misrepresent (v. i.) 虛偽陳述 To make an incorrect or untrue representation. -- Milton.
Misrepresent (v.) Represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions" [syn: {misrepresent}, {belie}].
Misrepresent (v.) Tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: {fudge}, {manipulate}, {fake}, {falsify}, {cook}, {wangle}, {misrepresent}].
Misrepresentation (n.) 不實的陳述；誤傳；歪曲 Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. -- Sydney Smith.
Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional untruth.
Misrepresentation (n.) A misleading falsehood [syn: {misrepresentation}, {deceit}, {deception}].
Misrepresentation (n.) A willful perversion of facts [syn: {falsification}, {misrepresentation}].
Misrepresentation (n.), Contracts. The statement made by a party to a contract, that a thing relating to it is in fact in a particular way, when he knows it is not so.
Misrepresentation (n.) The misrepresentation must be both false and fraudulent, in order to make the party making it, responsible to the other for damages. 3 Com. R. 413; 10 Mass. R. 197; 1 Rep. Const. Court, 328, 475, Yelv. 21 a, note l; Peake's Cas. 115; 3 Campb. 154; Marsh. Ins. B. 1, c. 10, s. 1. And see Representation. It is not every misrepresentation which will make a party liable; when a mere misstatement of a fact has been erroneously made, without fraud, in a casual, improvident communication, respecting a matter which the person to whom the communication was made, and who had an interest in it, should not have taken upon trust, but is bound to inquire himself, and had the means of ascertaining the truth, there would be no responsibility; 5 Maule & Selw. 380; 1 Chit. Pr. 836; 1 Sim. R. 13, 63; and when the informant was under no legal pledge or obligation as to the precise accuracy and correctness of his statement, the other party can maintain no action for the consequences of that statement, upon which it was his indiscretion to place reliance. 12 East, 638; see also, 2 Cox, R. 134; 13 Ves. 133; 3 Bos. & Pull. 370; 2 East, 103; 3 T. R, 56, 61; 3 Bulstr. 93; 6 Ves. 183; 3 Ves. & Bea. 110; 4 Dall. R. 250. Vide Concealment; Representation; Suggestio falsi; Suppressio veri.
Misrepresentative (a.) Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.
Misrepresenter (n.) One who misrepresents.
Misrepute (v. t.) To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.
Misrule (v. t. & i.) To rule badly; to misgovern.