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missituate

verb

Etymology

From mis- + situate.

  1. derived from situs
  2. derived from situō
  3. borrowed from situātus
  4. prefixed as missituate — “mis + situate”

Definitions

  1. To situate incorrectly.

    • Donald W. Hanson mounts what, to my mind, is a not terribly convincing case that Hobbes has been missituated as a founding father of realism, and calls Hobbes's mode of thought "unrealistic," "apolitical," and "transhistorical.'"
    • Somewhat more severe is the idea that the problem is missituated.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA