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missituated

missituated is the simple past and past participle of missituate.

Meaning of missituate

Verb

missituate (third-person singular simple present missituates, present participle missituating, simple past and past participle missituated)

  1. To situate incorrectly.
    • Donald W. Hanson mounts what, to my mind, is a not terribly convincing case that Hobbes has been missituated as a founding father of realism, and calls Hobbes's mode of thought "unrealistic," "apolitical," and "transhistorical.'"1995, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Women and War, page 88

Questions about missituated

What is missituated the simple past and past participle of?
Missituated is the simple past and past participle of missituate.

Words near missituated in the dictionary

  1. Mississippi windchimes
  2. Mississippian
  3. Mississippians
  4. Mississippis
  5. missituate
  6. missituated
  7. missituates
  8. missituating
  9. missive
  10. missives
  11. missized

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