misenlightened

comparative more misenlightened · superlative most misenlightened

1. Having been enlightened incorrectly; misinformed.

   I was misenlightened, no doubt — made the victim, very possibly, of a trifling hoax.

   1910, Lady's Realm: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Volume 27, page 399

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   My dear and misenlightened friends in the Scriptures ' bonds: - It is with great agony of mind that I find myself in the position to speak to you.

   1879, Henry Kiddle, Spiritual Communications, page 268

   Thence he would mark, in real ignorance of the plot of the forthcoming piece, or cycle of pieces, the motley compaies gathering for rehearsal—the barn-stormers; the heavy "leads:" the slighted tragedians foreseeing their opportunity for the fiftieth time; the inflated supers canvassing the favour of phantom houses with imagined gems of inspiration, with new lamps for old in the shape of misenlightened renderings of traditional rôles; he would mark the gas, so to speak, the artificial light that informed the garish scene with spurious vitality.

   1899, Bernard Capes, Our Lady of Darkness, page 88