misreckon
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[edit]misreckon (third-person singular simple present misreckons, present participle misreckoning, simple past and past participle misreckoned)
- (transitive) To add (something) up incorrectly, make a wrong calculation of (an amount etc.).
- (reflexive, obsolete) To make a wrong calculation, to be in error.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.207:
- And therefore he that hath once misreckoned himselfe is never seene againe.