Word Meanings - MISGUIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.

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• MISGUIDE
  To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• ASTRAY
  Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• GUIDE ROPE
  A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
• GUIDE
  cf. Goth. ritan to watch over, give heed to, Icel. viti signal, AS. witan to know. The word prob. meant, to indicate, point to, and 1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler. I wish . . . you
• UNDERSTANDING
  Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
• GUIDEBOARD
  A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road. Lowell.
• GUIDEPOST
  A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
• UNDERSTAND
  understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is 1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge
• GUIDER
  A guide; a director. Shak.
• UNDERSTANDER
  One who understands, or knows by experience. Dryden.
• UNDERSTANDABLE
  Capable of being understood; intelligible. Chillingworth.
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• GUIDELESS
  Without a guide. Dryden.
• GUIDERESS
  A female guide. Chaucer.
• MISUNDERSTANDER
  One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
• MISUNDERSTANDING
  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
• INUNDERSTANDING
  Void of understanding. Bp. Pearson.
• MISUNDERSTAND
  To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
• LINGUIDENTAL
  Linguadental.