Word Meanings - MISTHINK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.

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• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• THINK
  confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem,
• THINKER
  One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.
• THINKABLE
  Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable. Sir W. Hamilton.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• MISTHOUGHT
  Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error. Spenser.
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
• METHINKS
  It seems to me; I think. See Me. In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser. (more info) me þynceedh, me þuhte, OE. me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to G.
• UNTHINKER
  A person who does not think, or does not think wisely.
• FORTHINK
  To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• FREETHINKING
  Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. -- a.
• UNBETHINK
  To change the mind of .
• FREETHINKER
  One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and
• UNTHINK
  To recall or take back, as something thought. Shak.
• FORETHINK
  1. To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak. 2. To contrive beforehend. Bp. Hall.
• BETHINK
  To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. I have bethought me of another fault. Shak.
• UNTHINKING
  1. Not thinking; not heedful; thoughtless; inconsiderate; as, unthinking youth. 2. Not indicating thought or reflection; thoughtless. With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuffbox opened, then the case. Pope. --
• ATHINK
  To repent; to displease; to disgust. Chaucer.