Word Meanings - MISDESCRIBE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To describe wrongly.
Related words: (words related to MISDESCRIBE)
- DESCRIBER
One who describes. - DESCRIBENT
See GENERATRIX - DESCRIBE
write: cf. OE. descriven, OF. descrivre, F. décrire. See Scribe, and 1. To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to - WRONGLY
In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak. - MISDESCRIBE
To describe wrongly.