misteach
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of misteach
before 1000; Middle English mistechen, Old English mistǣcan. See mis- 1, teach
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The teachers of Christian Science need to watch inces- santly the trend of their own thoughts; watch that these be not secretly robbed, and themselves misguided, and so made to misteach others.
From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker
Horses mistaught 179:12 Every medical method has its advocates.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
Who learned thee, thou mistaught man, To speak so to a gentleman?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Some people, mistaught as to Mind- science, inquire when it will be safe to check a fever.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
Many European farmers, of course, are easily up to the Kansas level; but the vast majority have been mistaught that the path of the farmer must forever be watered with sweat.
From The Romance of the Reaper by Casson, Herbert Newton
His disciples have grossly misunderstood and mistaught his explanation.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
Parents know not but that Providence may be substituting the noblest education for the misteaching of intermediate guardians.
From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet
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