miscommand
Collocations
5ADJ.
english, evil, late
VERB + MISCOMMAND
made, turn
MISCOMMAND + NOUN
circumstance, inferiors, members
PREP.
with
ADV.
aside, masterly
Definitions
verb
To command incompetently.
If a Governour make a new Sacrament, I will not obey, because: his command is null, and the thing simply evil. If he miscommand a Circumstance of Time, or Place, or Gesture, I will consider the consequents.
If either the superiors miscommand, or the inferiors disobey, it is an affront to peace.
noun
Incompetence at commanding.
This applied to the privates in the ranks, and to officers in the highest grades. The attempt to smother up and to stifle investigation ordered to be made late the miscommand of its members who have brought disgrace upon its name, gives us a painful reply.
While he finished that glass, he managed to pay devoted attention to both charmers, meanwhile spieling away with a masterly miscommand of English to the large group that now surrounded him.
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6If a Governour make a new Sacrament, I will not obey, because: his command is null, and the thing simply evil. If he miscommand a Circumstance of Time, or Place, or Gesture, I will consider the conseq
WiktionaryIf either the superiors miscommand, or the inferiors disobey, it is an affront to peace.
WiktionaryThe truant skipped his drill, but had an eye no man could turn aside or miscommand for where the quarry of his spirit lay.
WiktionaryThis applied to the privates in the ranks, and to officers in the highest grades. The attempt to smother up and to stifle investigation ordered to be made late the miscommand of its members who have b
WiktionaryWhile he finished that glass, he managed to pay devoted attention to both charmers, meanwhile spieling away with a masterly miscommand of English to the large group that now surrounded him.
WiktionaryThersites , a chronic complainer, scolds Agamemnon for miscommand, and is rebuked and beaten by Odysseus.
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