miscognize

From mis- +‎ cognize.

miscognize (third-person singular simple present miscognizes, present participle miscognizing, simple past and past participle miscognized)

1. (obsolete) To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand.
   • 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:

     The good never intervert, nor miscognize the favour and benefit which they have received.

• “miscognize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.