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Word Meanings - MISRECOLLECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.

Related words: (words related to MISRECOLLECT)

  • ERRONEOUS
    1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot. Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Sir I. Newman. 2. Misleading;
  • REMEMBRANCER
    1. One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder. Premature consiolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow. Goldsmith. Ye that are the lord's remembrancers. Isa. lxii. 6. . 2. A term applied in
  • SUPPOSEER
    One who supposes.
  • REMEMBRANCE
    1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection. Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. Milton. Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. Addison. 2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory;
  • SUPPOSE
    corresponding in meaning to L. supponere, suppositum, to put under, 1. To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit
  • UNREMEMBRANCE
    Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.
  • PRESUPPOSE
    To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator. Each presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand. Hooker.

 

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