missuppose

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ suppose

Verb

missuppose (third-person singular simple present missupposes, present participle missupposing, simple past and past participle missupposed)

1. (transitive) To suppose incorrectly.
   • 1885, Ancient English Metrical Romances, page 4:

     There was, indeed, another Boort, or Bors, afterwards king of Benoic; but the translator has evidently missupposed Ban-Boozt to be the name of one king, and Bos that of the other.

   • 1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, Mutual Fund Legislation of 1967: Hearings..., page 876:

     The circumstances complained of by the SEC are best controlled by the confluence of the competitive forces of the marketplace rather than by an agency that missupposes the mutual fund industry as being like a public utility.