misconceit

English

Alternative forms

• misconceipt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English misconceite, equivalent to mis- +‎ conceit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪskənˈsiːt/

Noun

misconceit (plural misconceits)

1. (obsolete) misconception
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Full of melancholy and sad misfare ,
     Through misconceit ; all unawares espide
     An armed Knight

Verb

misconceit (third-person singular simple present misconceits, present participle misconceiting, simple past and past participle misconceited)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To form a wrong opinion about.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “misconceit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)