Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To instruct amiss.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To instruct amiss.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To instruct badly or wrongly.

Etymologies

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mis- +‎ instruct

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Examples

  • We have had a sense of what it means to "give scandal" or to misinstruct the faithful about the teachings of their own Church.

    Musings of a Pertinacious Papist 2009

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