mistook

Verb

mistake (third-person singular simple present mistakes, present participle mistaking, simple past mistook, past participle mistaken)

1. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
   • Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To misunderstand (someone).
   • Miſtake me not, my Lord, ’tis not my meaning / To raze one Title of your Honour out.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
   • Impoſe me to what penance your inuention / Can lay vpon my ſinne, yet ſinn’d I not / But in miſtaking.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
4. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.
   • The better act of purposes mistook / Is to mistake again; though indirect, / Yet indirection thereby grows direct,c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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