LekhoriLekhoriTo understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
To misunderstand (someone).
Miſtake me not, my Lord, ’tis not my meaning / To raze one Title of your Honour out.
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.
From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before ...
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A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.