miswander

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ wander.

Verb

miswander (third-person singular simple present miswanders, present participle miswandering, simple past and past participle miswandered)

1. (intransitive) To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Her weary palfrey, closely as she might, Now well recover'd after long repast, In his proud furnitures she freshly dight, His late miswander'd ways now to remeasure right

   • 1909, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, →ISBN:

     Or show you restless, miswandering, misclimbing ones new and easier footpaths?

   • 1968, The New York Times Book Review:

     The reason for this attitude toward Spain is not far to seek, and it finds an explanation in the words of José Ortega Gasset, quoted by Mr. Trend: Is it not bitter sarcasm that after and a half centuries of miswandering we are invited to follow the ....

   • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, page 6:

     As if it were a maze where these orphans of his heart had miswandered in their journey in life […]

References

• “miswander”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “miswander”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.