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/mɪstˈeɪkɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Mistaking n. An error; a mistake.

verb

Mistake v. t. (past mistook; past part. mistaken; pres. part. mistaking)

To take or choose wrongly. (Obs. or R.)

To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. "My father's purposes have been mistook."

To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. "A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it."

To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. "Mistake me not so much, To think my poverty is treacherous."

Mistake v. i. (past mistook; past part. mistaken; pres. part. mistaking) To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error. "Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends."

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"Mistaking" Quotes from Famous Books

... There, far away, showing up against the dark peat-coloured soil, rode a gaily-dressed cavalier, followed by a knot of attendants, galloping as fast as his horse would carry him from the field of battle. There was no mistaking the fugitive. It ...

— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle

... had never been: at the same time his eye is dry, his features unmoved, not a sigh does he utter, and yet he is truly sorry. It is important to bear these facts in mind: else we shall be continually mistaking for passions what are pure acts of will, or vice versa, misled by the identity ...

— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.

... circuit so as not to be observed, and then slowly to follow the enemy as they moved along, and as soon as he perceived the battle begun, to charge them on the rear. Whether Nero was prevented from executing these orders by mistaking the route, or from the shortness of the time, is doubtful. Though he was absent when the battle was fought, the Romans had unquestionably the advantage; but as the cavalry did not come up in time, the plan of the battle which had been agreed upon was disconcerted ...

— The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six • Titus Livius

... no mistaking Sunny's anger. He forgot his usual lazy indifference. For once he was stirred to a rage that was as active and volcanic as one of Wild ...

— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum

... sister had left the chapel (to keep a real appointment with Mr. Frankl elsewhere). Under that tree the prisoner had encountered the murdered man, whose Oriental dress on a dark night would give him a resemblance to Mr. Frankl, himself a Jew. The prisoner had then shot the deceased, mistaking him for Mr. Frankl, and had been found holding the smoking weapon, which he admitted to be his own. It was a painful case; but the chain ...

— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel

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