misconster

Updated: May 11, 2025

For example, he gives us misconster, and says, "This is not a mis-spelling or loose spelling of 'misconstrue, but the old form of the word." Mr. Dyce insisted on the same cacographical nicety in his "Remarks" on the editions of Mr. Collier and Mr. Knight, but abandons it in his own with the artless admission that misconstrue also occurs in the Folio.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859