Word Meanings - MISCONSTRUCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.

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• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• INTERPRETABLE
  Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
• CONSTRUCTIVELY
  In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.
• INTERPRETATIVELY
  By interpretation. Ray.
• INTERPRETIVE
  Interpretative.
• CONSTRUCTIVE
  1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson. 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.
• CONSTRUCTION
  The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke. 4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a
• CONSTRUCTIONIST
  One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.
• INTERPRETATIVE
  1. Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. "Interpretative lexicography." Johnson. 2. According to interpretation; constructive. An interpretative siding with heresies. Hammond.
• CONSTRUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
• CONSTRUCTOR
  A constructer.
• CONSTRUCTIVENESS
  The faculty which enables one to construct, as in mechanical, artistic, or literary matters. (more info) 1. Tendency or ability to form or construct.
• CONSTRUE
  1. To apply the rules of syntax to so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate. 2. To put a construction upon; to explain the sense
• INTERPRETAMENT
  Interpretation. Milton.
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• INTERPRET
  interpretatus, fr. interpre interpeter, agent, negotiator; inter 1. To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also
• INTERPRETER
  One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke.
• INTERPRETATION
  An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature. (more info) 1. The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream,
• CONSTRUCTURE
  That which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric.
• CONSTRUCTER
  One who, or that which, constructs or frames.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• MISCONSTRUER
  One who misconstrues.
• RECONSTRUCT
  To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew. Regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed. Macaulay.
• MISINTERPRETER
  One who interprets erroneously.
• MISCONSTRUCTION
  Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
• MISCONSTRUCT
  To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.
• RECONSTRUCTION
  The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reëstablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War. (more info) 1. The act
• MISINTERPRET
  To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.