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Posted by Rail Blue on Fri Nov 24 08:57:08 2006, in response to Re: Ethnic/Racial Groups, posted by American Pig on Fri Nov 24 08:29:05 2006. (I assume that to mistake means to make a mistake)mistake, v. Brit. /m{shtibar}{sm}ste{shti}k/, U.S. /m{schwa}{sm}ste{shti}k/ Forms: see MIS-1 and TAKE v. [< MIS-1 + TAKE v., partly after early Scandinavian: cf. Old Icelandic mistaka to take by mistake, (reflexive) to miscarry, Old Swedish mistaka (Swedish misstaga (reflexive) to be mistaken). With the sense development cf. Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French mesprendre (see MISPRIZE v.1).] [1. a. - 5. b. snipped] 6. a. intr. To make a mistake; to be in error; to err in opinion or judgement; to be under a misapprehension; to take a wrong view. Now somewhat arch. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxiiii, In their computacion they had mistaken and miscounted in their nomber an hundreth yeres. 1581 G. PETTIE tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) II. 77, I think you mistake. a1616 SHAKESPEARE Two Gent. (1623) V. iv. 93 Oh, cry you mercy sir, I haue mistooke. 1631 W. GOUGE Gods Arrowes I. §42. 67 God can not mistake: the evill at which he is at any time angry is indeed evill. 1699 R. BENTLEY Diss. Epist. Phalaris (ed. 2) 326 That He was not the first, that made this (false) Discovery, but mistook after great Names, Goltzius, and Fazellus. 1734 POPE Epist. to Visct. Cobham 11 Yet, in this search, the wisest may mistake, If second Qualities for first they take. 1769 F. BROOKE Hist. Emily Montague I. xi. 65 ‘You mistake, brother,’ said he; ‘we are subjects to no prince.’ 1819 SHELLEY Cenci IV. iv. 73 How; dead! he only sleeps; you mistake, brother. 1861 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. 30 198 Professor Lassen mistakes as to the locality of this place. 1891 Speaker 2 May 532/2 If we mistake not, he has put the believers in the guilt of Richard III in a dilemma. 1937 D. SAYERS Zeal of thy House iv. 95 Prior: Son, they mistake Who think God hates those bodies which he made. [6. b. - 11. snipped] |
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