Misreckon
Verb
Third-person singular simple present: she/he misreckons
Indicative past, past participle: misreckoned
Present participle: misreckoning
Etymology: it is analysable into mis- (prefix with negative implication) and reckon.
Transitively: definition: a. To reckon or calculate amiss (a quantity); this is, to compute incorrectly. b. To reckon amiss the quantity of; to make a wrong estimate in respect of the number of
It may be approximately translated by contar mal, in Spanish; compter à tort, in French; contare erroneamente, in Italian
Synonyms: miscalculate, miscount
[…] you have misreckoned the height of the sun.
Henry Wadsworth (Life of Henry…)
He had the art besides to misreckon men in their accounts, whether by weight or measure or money.
James Anthony Froude (Bunyan)
It was not until after we had entered the cabin of Kantos Kan that I thought to ask the date, for up to now I was not positive how long I had lain in the pits of Zat Arrras. When Kantos Kan told me, I realized with a pang of dismay that I had misreckoned the time while I lay in the utter darkness of my cell.
Edgar Rice Burroughs (The Gods of Mars)
[…] in her topographical ignorance as a late comer to the place, she misreckoned the distance of her journey as not much more than half what it really was.
Thomas Hardy (Far from the madding crowd)
Intransitively: definition: to commit a misreckoning; to make a miscalculation
From the above account, if the author of it has not misreckoned, it seems evident that the great east window has been altered since he wrote the description, though perhaps he may have been as inaccurate in that article, as in the estimation of his steppys, when he says twenty-four of them make twelve yards, and fifty yards make only eighty-five of his paces or steps.
Charles Heath (Monmouthshire)
[…] although I have a little misreckoned in time, yet I was not deceived in my end.
Thomas May (The history of the Parliament…)
***Passively:
These stones are mentioned by Camden, who was either misinformed as to their number, or misreckoned.
The Atheneum, vol. 12
