mistake (pa. pple. “mistaken, mista'en, mistook”）
1.
to take
wrongly, falsely, or improperly
Wiv. II. ii. 231
“I have lost my edifice
by mistaking the place where I erected
it,”
John III. i. 274
“purposes
mistook,”
Ham. III. ii. 266
“So you your
husbands”
(Q1 and mod.
edd. “must take”),
V. ii. 398; to take to a
wrong person or place
LLL. IV. i. 57
“This letter is
mistook,”
109
2.
to misjudge AYL. I. iii. 67,
H8 I. i. 195
“I . . . could wish he
were Something mistaken in'”
3.
(?) to misdoubt Tim. III. ii. 25*
“he mistook him, and sent to
me.”
4.
intr. to go astray
Rom. V. iii. 203
“This dagger hath
mista'en.”
