Meaning of misattend | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To misunderstand something; to disregard or fail to pay attention.
   intransitive
2. To fail to look after properly.
   transitive

Examples

“I would have⟳ cabled you to withdraw⟳ it from the Century, but I didn't, for I was sure I could depend⟳ upon Gilder's declining it. If he hasn't done it, please⟳ take⟳ it away from him and charge him with being drunk and misattending to his duties.”

“They ſhall recover⟳ the miſattended vvords of Chriſt to the ſincerity of their true ſenſe from manifold contradictions, and ſhall open⟳ them vvith the key of charity.”

“Then how do you account for Mr. Goffin stating that he gave a lesson on Thursday as usual ? — I did not hear⟳ the lesson. I must have⟳ been misattending if he did give⟳ one, because we were all changing.”

“From the bottom-up view⟳, the reader with attention deficits may misattend to the salient features of words.”

“It is a case of 'epistemic drift' as defined by Kemeny (1999), in which discourses without firm disciplinary roots tend⟳ to misattend to facts and jump⟳ to misleading conclusions.”

“Soon after this, she removed from my district; and in the year 1861, again, for the eighth time, was pregnant, when she now fell under the care of an unqualified medical man, who had been appointed by a board⟳ of guardians to mis'''attend⟳ the poor of a large district.”

“However, I cannot leave⟳ this subject without lamenting the unfortuate attitude of certain members of the bar to misattend the execution of documents with complete⟳ disregard for their code of professional conduct.”

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