misknow

verb

1. to misunderstand

   “As to the time when he fell in it, he saith it was in time of peace, aftr he was delivered from the hands of Sennacherib, and when he was at ease in great wealth and abundance; and, as he himself confesseth, when he was beginning to misknow God, and to abuse the great benefit of his delivery, at that same time God beginneth to pull his ear, and he casteth him out of the hands of a fearful war into the hands of a terrible pest.”

   “Whatever real excellence he might misknow, you had but to let it stand before him, soliciting new examination from him: none surer than he to recognize it at last, and to pay it all his dues, with the arrears and interest on them.”

   “Steadfast friend, Who never didst my heart or life misknow, Nor either's faults too keenly apprehend,How can I wonder when I see thee go To join the Dead found faithful to the end?”

   “The previous year a Perth session considering that those who desire their banns called "are almost altogether ignorant and misknow the causes why they should marry,” ordered all to appear before the reader to be instructed in the true knowledge of the causes of matrimony.”