misappear

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ appear.

Verb

misappear (third-person singular simple present misappears, present participle misappearing, simple past and past participle misappeared)

1. To give a false appearance; to seem to be something other than the true form.
   • 1854, C. B. Cayley (Dante Alighieri), Divine comedy: Translated in the original ternary rhyme by C. B. Cayley:

     Anon like folks, that have in masks appeared, And seem as changelings, when they put away That foreign garb, in which they misappeared, So changed here to a jubilee more gay

   • 2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta, →ISBN, page 80:

     So, as a corrective, he appended the affix vat to rajat and dvitiya to stress the point that there was no question of grafting one thing upon another, all that there happens is a thing misappearing like what it is not, or being miscognised as other than it is.

   • 2009, G. A. Cohen, Why Not Socialism?, →ISBN, page 48:

     But nobody designed things that way, and his restricted options consequently misappear as mere facts.

   • 2017, Jeffrey Hopkins, Absorption in No External World: 170 Issues in Mind-Only Buddhism, →ISBN:

     Indeed, being the referent of terms and thoughts is established through the usage of language but misappears as if subsisting in objects themselves; thus, it is posited by only names and terminology.

2. To appear wrongly; to come into view in the wrong place or at the wrong time.
   • 2014, John Klobucher, The Lore Anthology, →ISBN, page 23:

     So Bylo scooped the phlegm in the crook of his fetid finger and flung it flush at the young maid's head, though it somehow misappeared behind her in the empty space the trio made.