misween

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ ween.

Verb

misween (third-person singular simple present misweens, present participle misweening, simple past and past participle misweened)

(obsolete) To believe wrongly; to misconceive.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Why then should witlesse man so much misweene / That nothing is, but that which he hath seene?

Anagrams

semi-new, seminew, wise men, wisemen

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