Meanings
verbmisobserve (third-person singular simple present misobserves, present participle misobserving, simple past and past participle misobserved)
present singular third person misobserves · participle present misobserving · participle past misobserved · past misobserved
- To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.
They understand it as early as they do language; and, if I misobserve not , they love to be treated as rational creatures sooner than is imagined
1693, [John Locke], “(please specify the section number)”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC
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