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English
Adjective
misintelligible (comparative more misintelligible, superlative most misintelligible)
- (archaic) Liable to be misunderstood.
1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on the Works of Robert Robinson”, in Literary Remains:To the same man I would give the Bible, though a very large part would be worse than unintelligible, for it would be misintelligible […]
- 1847-1848, Thomas De Quincey, "Protestantism", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
[…] already in Scotland it is a barbarism transplanted from the filthy vocabulary of attorneys, locally called writers; secondly, because in England it is not even intelligible, and, what is worse still, sure to be misintelligible.