mistake

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.

   • Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
   • Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
   • My father’s purposes have been mistook;
2. 2

   To misunderstand (someone).

   • Miſtake me not, my Lord, ’tis not my meaning / To raze one Title of your Honour out.
   • […] at last she so evidently demonstrated her Affection to him to be much stronger than what she bore her own Son, that it was impossible to mistake her any longer.
3. 3

   To commit an unintentional error

   To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.

   • Impoſe me to what penance your inuention / Can lay vpon my ſinne, yet ſinn’d I not / But in miſtaking.
   • "Bah!" said the Englishwoman: "what knight ever feared cold? Besides, you mistake; the night is warm, and you look so handsome in your gown."
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   1. 4

      To take or choose wrongly.

      • The better act of purposes mistook / Is to mistake again; though indirect, / Yet indirection thereby grows direct,
      • The Spear with erring Haste mistook its way, But plung’d in Eniopeus’ Bosom lay.
   2. 5

      An error.

      • There were too many mistakes in the test, that unfortunately you failed.
      • He always did mistakes on purpose.
      • He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.
   3. 6

      A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up…

      A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

The neighborhood

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