misexplicate

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verb

To explicate incorrectly.

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Meanings

verbmisexplicate (third-person singular simple present misexplicates, present participle misexplicating, simple past and past participle misexplicated)

present singular third person misexplicates · participle present misexplicating · participle past misexplicated · past misexplicated

  1. To explicate incorrectly.

    They hav ^([sic]) only misexplicated all its parts after their own happy way.

    1893 January 14, “Freethought Converting Clergymen”, in The Truth Seeker: A Journal of Freethought and Reform, volume 20, number 2, page 20
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    King Philip misexplicated part of the following threat to Angiers ( 2.1.274-77 ):

    1987, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism - Volumes 1-2, page 169

    Any preaching and exegesis that exploits the ignorance of the 'lewed' by the intellectual games of misquoting, misapplying and misexplicating is rejected as un-Christian and uncharitable.

    1990, Poetica (Tokyo) - Volumes 32-34, page 19

Origin

From mis- + explicate.

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APA

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Chicago

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