mispronunciation (mis pro nuns i ash on)

[ misproportion (mis-pro-por's hon), v. t . [ misproud ; mis -1 + proud .] Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; arrogant; haughty. Ne no mysproude man amonges lordes ben allowed. Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 436. Ah! thou misproud prentice, darest thou presume to marry a lady's sister? Marston, Jonson, and Chapman , Eastward Ho, iii. 2. Of thy misproud ambitious clan, Thou, James of Both well, wert the man. Scott , L. of the L., v. 26. maladministration in an office of public trust: also termed positive misprision, as distinguished from negative misprision, or mere neglect or concealment. No one of the trade shall set him to work until he shall have made amends before the mayor and aldermen, and before them such misprision shall be redre ed. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. cxli. Misprision of felony, concealment of a felony. Misprision of heresy, failure to denounce one who has been guilty of heresy. The edict further provided against all misprision of heresy, by making those who failed to betray the suspected liable to the same punishment as if suspected or convicted themselves. Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 262. Misprision of treason, knowledge and concealment of treason, without a enting to it. This elaborate accusation contained eight counts of high treason and misprision of treason. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 345. and pp. mispunctuated, ppr. mispunctuating. [ mis qualify (mis-kwol'i-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. mis qualified, ppr. mis qualifying. [ which is common What is called religious poetry, ly a painful something misnamed by the noun and misquali fied by the adjective. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 295. misquemet, v. t. [ME., But if any man these misqueme , He shall be baighted as a bere. The Plowman's Tale, 1. 605. + quotation.] 1. The act of quoting wrong.2. An incorrect quotation. misquote (mis-kwōt'), v. t. or i.; pret. and pp. misquoted, ppr. misquoting. [ Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote, And just enough of learning to misquote . Byron, Eng. Bards and Scotch Reviewers. The all edgers of testimonies... do misrecite the sense of the author they quote. Boyle, Works, II. 477. To reckon or compute erroneously. It is a familiar error in Joseph us to misreckon times. Raleigh , Hist. World, II. xvii. 10. misreckoning (mis-rek'ning), n. An erroneous or false reckoning. misredet, v . t . [ME. misreden , misrādan , advise wrongly, give bad counsel, mis- , wrong- ly, + rædan , advise: see read1 , redel.] To ad- vise unwisely or to bad purpose. misrefert (mis-re-fer'), v . t . and i. [ Which oft misapprehend and mi ereferre. Davies , Mirum in Modum, p. 12. ( Davies .) mis reflect (mis-re-flekt'), v. t. [ mis reflect an object.