misconceit

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MISCONCE'IT MISCONCE'IVE, verb transitive or i. To receive a false notion or opinion of any thing; to misjudge; to have an erroneous understanding of any thing. To yield to others just and reasonable causes of those things, which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived.
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