Misimagination

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Wrong imagination; delusion. countable, uncountable

    "Vnto which their misimaginations I say, that it is not one mans worke; although it were Iulius Caesar himselfe, to reduce a whole armie into diuers forms of battle with celeritic when they are to march in the enimies Countrey, or to fight with the Enemie, but that the same must be of necessitie perfourmed by diuers Chiefetains, and higher and lower officers of the armie;"

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"Vnto which their misimaginations I say, that it is not one mans worke; although it were Iulius Caesar himselfe, to reduce a whole armie into diuers forms of battle with celeritic when they are to march in the enimies Countrey, or to fight with the Enemie, but that the same must be of necessitie perfourmed by diuers Chiefetains, and higher and lower officers of the armie;"

Etymology

From mis- + imagination or misimagine + -ation.

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