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Mistak, v. Also: mystak, mistaik. P.t. mystuk. P.p. mistackne; mistaken, -yne; mistane. [ME. (c 1330) and e.m.E. mis-, mys-, missetake, ON. mistaka.For the uses, cf. also OF. mesprendre (F. méprendre).]

1. intr. To transgress, offend, do wrong. a1400 Leg. S. x. 375.
For he mystuk for to wed His lordis wyfe & bring to bed

2. tr. To take wrongfully (from); const. indirect obj. 1575 Waus Corr. 101.
Quhair ye wald mistane me an hundryth pundis and sais the secund contrack garris me ar

3. To misapprehend or misconstrue, wilfully or otherwise, to misconceive or misunderstand (a person or his intentions, meaning, words etc.).(a) 1572 J. Maitland Maitl. F. lxxxviii. 61.
Gif ȝe be meik ȝit thai mistak ȝour mynd And sweiris ȝe ar far schrewdar nor ȝe seme
1599 Rollock Wks. I. 343.
Scarse may ane godlie man speik ane or twa wordis … quhen he is mistaken be evill men
1615 Highland P. III. 219.
Feiring that your lo … suld not mistaik the caus of this my last offence
a1634 Forbes Rec. 434.
For the declinatour or appeale so much mistaken or misconstructed in the foresaid booke
a1650 Row Hist. 312.
[He] was mistaken, and his answer thrown to another sense
(b) 1604-31 Craig v. 24.
Goe, louelesse lines … Yet stay, for why? Yee will bee quite mistane
1638-54 Rec. Kirk Scotl. 149.
And least I should be mistane, albeit I acknowledgit not their sentence, I … removed from Irwing … to Turray

4. a. To blunder over, err in respect of. 1650 Rothiemay Kirk S. in J. Gordon Hist. I. App. lvi.
Materiall things such as sentencing of delinquentes forgotten, the names mistakyne, ther delynquencye not expressed

b. refl. To make a mistake or blunder, to err. 1669 Dysart Rec. 79.
The booker did mistak himself and took the one for the other

5. To be mistaken, also = to labour under a misapprehension, to be in error, to err. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1891) 276.
I was far mistaken who should have summoned Christ for unkindness
1638-54 Rec. Kirk Scotl. 245.
If I be not mistane, the book of cannons was joyned with it
?c1675 J. Gordon Hist. I. 14.
Wherin Traqwair was greatly mistackne

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