Meanings
verbmiscognize (third-person singular simple present miscognizes, present participle miscognizing, simple past and past participle miscognized)
present singular third person miscognizes · participle present miscognizing · participle past miscognized · past miscognized
- obsoleteTo fail to apprehend; to misunderstand.
The good never intervert, nor miscognize the favour and benefit which they have received.
1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC
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