misexplicate

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ explicate.

Verb

misexplicate (third-person singular simple present misexplicates, present participle misexplicating, simple past and past participle misexplicated)

  1. To explicate incorrectly.
    • 1893 January 14, “Freethought Converting Clergymen”, in The Truth Seeker: A Journal of Freethought and Reform, volume 20, number 2, page 20:
      They hav only misexplicated all its parts after their own happy way.
    • 1987, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism - Volumes 1-2, page 169:
      King Philip misexplicated part of the following threat to Angiers ( 2.1.274-77 ):
    • 1990, Poetica (Tokyo) - Volumes 32-34, page 19:
      Any preaching and exegesis that exploits the ignorance of the 'lewed' by the intellectual games of misquoting, misapplying and misexplicating is rejected as un-Christian and uncharitable.