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Definition of "misreckon" []

  • To reckon incorrectly; miscalculate. (verb-transitive)
  • To engage in incorrect reckoning or miscalculation. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "misreckon" in a sentence
  • "And whereas some have attributed the dominion to the man only, as being of the more excellent sex, they misreckon in it."
  • "If I do not misreckon foully the queen spoke of both seeing and speaking with him during her progress hither."
  • "I here, by the unexampled favour you stand in with our Sage, send not a Biography only, but an Autobiography: at least the materials for such; wherefrom, if I misreckon not, your perspicacity will draw fullest insight: and so the whole Philosophy and Philosopher of Clothes will stand clear to the wondering eyes of England, nay thence, through"
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