misreckon

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈɹɛkən/

Verb

misreckon (third-person singular simple present misreckons, present participle misreckoning, simple past and past participle misreckoned)

(transitive) To add (something) up incorrectly, make a wrong calculation of (an amount etc.).
(reflexive, obsolete) To make a wrong calculation, to be in error.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.207:
  And therefore he that hath once misreckoned himselfe is never seene againe.

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