misenlightened

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ enlightened

Adjective

misenlightened (comparative more misenlightened, superlative most misenlightened)

1. Having been enlightened incorrectly; misinformed.
   • 1879, Henry Kiddle, Spiritual Communications, page 268:

     My dear and misenlightened friends in the Scriptures ' bonds: - It is with great agony of mind that I find myself in the position to speak to you.

   • 1899, Bernard Capes, Our Lady of Darkness, page 88:

     Thence he would mark, in real ignorance of the plot of the forthcoming piece, or cycle of pieces, the motley compaies gathering for rehearsal—the barn-stormers; the heavy "leads:" the slighted tragedians foreseeing their opportunity for the fiftieth time; the inflated supers canvassing the favour of phantom houses with imagined gems of inspiration, with new lamps for old in the shape of misenlightened renderings of traditional rôles; he would mark the gas, so to speak, the artificial light that informed the garish scene with spurious vitality.

   • 1910, Lady's Realm: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Volume 27, page 399:

     I was misenlightened, no doubt — made the victim, very possibly, of a trifling hoax.