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Etymology

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mis- +‎ cognise

Verb

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miscognise (third-person singular simple present miscognises, present participle miscognising, simple past and past participle miscognised)

  1. Alternative form of miscognize
    • 2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta, →ISBN, page 80:
      So, as a corrective, he appended the affix vat to rajat and dvitiya to stress the point that there was no question of grafting one thing upon another, all that there happens is a thing misappearing like what it is not, or being miscognised as other than it is.