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#507. Expectation. -- N. expectation, expectance, expectancy;
anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight &c. 510.
contemplation, prospection, lookout; prospect, perspective, horizon,
vista; destiny &c. 152.
suspense, waiting, abeyance; curiosity &c. 455; anxious expectation,
ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine
expectation; torment of Tantalus.
hope &c. 858; trust &c. (belief) 484; auspices &c. (prediction) 511;
assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance.
V. expect; look for, look out for, look forward to; hope for;
anticipate; have in prospect, have in contemplation; keep in view;
contemplate, promise oneself; not wonder &c. 870 at, not wonder if.
wait for, tarry for, lie in wait for, watch for, bargain for; keep a
good lookout for, keep a sharp lookout for; await; stand at "attention,"
abide, bide one's time, watch.
foresee &c. 510; prepare for &c. 673; forestall &c. (be early) 132;
count upon &c. (believe in) 484; think likely &c. (probability) 472.
lead one to expect &c. (predict) 511; have in store for &c. (destiny)
152.
prick up one's ears, hold one's breath.
Adj. expectant; expecting &c. v.; in expectation &c. n.; on the watch
&c. (vigilant) 459; open-eyed, open-mouthed; agape, gaping, all agog; on
tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets; ready;
curious &c. 455; looking forward to.
expected &c. v.; long expected, foreseen; in prosepct &c. n.;
prospective; in one's eye, in one's view, in the horizon; impending &c.
(destiny) 152.
Adv. on the watch &c. adj.; with breathless expectation &c. n.; with
bated breath; arrectis auribus.
Phr. we shall see; nous verrons; "expectation whirls me round"
[Troilus and Cressida].

#508. Inexpectation. -- N. inexpectation, non-expectation; false
expectation &c. (disappointment) 509; miscalculation &c. 481.
surprise, sudden burst, thunderclap, blow, shock; bolt out of the
blue; wonder &c. 870; eye opener.
V. not expect &c. 507; be taken by surprise; start; miscalculate &c.
481; not bargain for; come upon, fall upon.
be unexpected &c. adj.; come unawares &c. adv.; turn up, pop, drop
from the clouds; come upon one, burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon
one, steal upon one, creep upon one; come like a thunder clap, burst like a
thunderclap, thunder bolt; take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch
unawares, catch napping; yach [S. Africa].
pounce upon, spring a mine upon.
surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away
one's breath, throw off one's guard; astonish &c. (strike with wonder) 870.
Adj. nonexpectant; surprised &c. v.; unwarned, unaware; off one's
guard; inattentive 458.
unexpected, unanticipated, unlooked for, unforeseen, unhoped for;
dropped from the clouds; beyond expectation, contrary to expectation,
against expectation; out of one's reckoning; unheard of &c. (exceptional)
83; startling; sudden &c. (instantaneous) 113.
Adv. abruptly, unexpectedly, plump, pop, a l'improviste, unawares;
without notice, without warning, without a "by your leave"; like a thief in
the night, like a thunderbolt; in an unguarded momemt; suddenly &c.
(instantaneously) 113.
Int. heydey! &c. (wonder) 870.
Phr. little did one think, little did one expect; nobody would ever
suppose, nobody would ever think, nobody would ever expect; who would have
thought? it beats the Dutch|!.

#509. [Failure of expectation.] Disappointment.-- N. disappointment;
blighted hope, balk; blow; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's
hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune;
afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation &c. 481;
fool's paradise; much cry and little wool.
V. be disapppointed; look blank, look blue; look aghast, stand aghast
&c. (wonder) 870; find to one's cost; laugh on the wrong side of one's
mouth; find one a false prophet.
not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation.
disappoint; crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope,
disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's
hope; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from
the lips, tantalize; dumfounder.
Adj. disappointed &c. v.; disconcerted, aghast; disgruntled; out of
one's reckoning.
Phr. the mountain brought forth a mouse; parturiunt montes; nascitur
ridiculus mus [Horace]; diis aliter visum, the bubble burst; one's
countenance falling.

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#510. Foresight. -- N. foresight, prospicience, prevision, long-
sightedness; anticipation; providence &c. (preparation) 673.
forethought, forecast; predeliberation, presurmise; foregone
conclusion &c. (prejudgment) 481; prudence &c. (caution) 864.
foreknowledge; prognosis; precognition, prescience, prenotion,
presentiment; second sight; sagacity &c. (intelligence) 498; antepast,
prelibation, prophasis.
prospect &c. (expectation) 507; foretaste; prospectus &c. (plan) 626.
V. foresee; look forwards to, look ahead, look beyond; scent from
afar; look into the future, pry into the future, peer into the future.
see one's way; see how the land lies, see how the wind blows, see how
the cat jumps.
anticipate; expect &c. 507; be beforehand &c. (early) 132; predict &c.
511; foreknow, forejudge, forecast; presurmise; have an eye to the future,
have an eye to the main chance; respicere finem; keep a sharp lookout &c.
(vigilance) 459; forewarn &c. 668.
Adj. foreseeing &c. v.; prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious
&c. (intelligent) 498; weatherwise; provident &c. (prepared) 673;
prospective &c. 507.
Adv. against the time when.
Phr. cernit omnia Deus vindex; mihi cura futuri.


#511. Prediction.-- N. prediction, announcement; program, programme
&c. (plan) 626; premonition &c. (warning) 668; prognosis, prophecy,
vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration|; augury,
auguration|; ahariolation|, hariolation|; foreboding, aboding; bodement,
abodement;
omniation|, omniousness; auspices, forecast; omen &c. 512; horoscope,
nativity; sooth, soothsaying; fortune telling; divination; necromancy &c.
992.
[Divination by the stars] astrology, horoscopy, judicial astrology1.
[Place of prediction] adytum.
prefiguration, prefigurement; prototype, type.
V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell,
soothysay, augurate, tell fortunes; cast a horoscoppe, cast a nativity;
advise; forewarn &c. 668.
presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure,
preshow; portend; foreshow, foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify,
ominate, signify, point to.
usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower.
hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite
hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor &c 64.
Adj. predicting &cv.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic, fatidical;
vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, harupsical, Sibylline; weatherwise.
ominous, portentous, augurous, agurial, agural; auspicial, auspicious;
prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant
with, bit with the fate of.
Phr. "coming events cast their shadows before" [Campbell]; dicamus
bona verba; "there buds the promise of celestial worth" [Young].

<-- 1 The following terms, expressive of different forms of
divination, have been collected from various sources, and are here given as
a curious illustration of bygone superstitions:-
Divination by oracles, Theomancy; by the Bible, Biliomancy; by ghosts,
Psychomancy; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy; by shadows or manes,
Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy; by the stars at
birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy; by winds, Austromancy; by
sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy), Hieromancy, Hieroscopy;
by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy; by the
entrails of a human sacrifice, Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes,
Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy;
by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds,
Orniscopy, Ornithomancy; by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy (or
Alectoromancy); by fishes, Ophiomancy; by herbs, Botanomancy; by water,
Hydromancy; by fountains, Pegomancy; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of
cakes, Crithomancy; by meal, Aleuromancy, Alphitomancy; by salt, Halomancy;
by dice, Cleromancy; by arrows, Belomancy; by a balanced hatchet,
Axinomancy; by a balanced sieve, Coscinomancy; by a suspended ring,
Dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy; by precious
stones, Lithomancy; by pebbles, Pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap,
Psephomancy; by mirrors, Catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy;
by dreams, Oneiromancy; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails
reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy; by finger rings, Dactylomancy; by
numbers, Arithmancy; by drawing lots, Sortilege; by passages in books,
Stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy,
Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing,
Geloscopy; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy; by walking in a circle,
Gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy; by currents,
Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy. -->

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#512. Omen.-- N. omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice;
sign &c. (indication) 550; harbinger &c. (precursor) 64; yule candle|!.
bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning &c.
668.
prefigurement &c. 511.
Adj. ill-boding.
Phr. auspicium melioris aevi.

#513. Oracle.-- N. oracle; prophet, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune
teller, witch, geomancer, aruspex; aruspice, haruspice; haruspex; Sibyl;
Python, Pythoness; Pythia; Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor,
Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer
&c. 994; interpreter &c. 524.

SECTION VII. CREATIVE THOUGHT

#514. Supposition.-- N. supposition, assumption, assumed position,
postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, postulate, postulatum,
theory; thesis, theorem; data; proposition, position; proposal &c. (plan)
626; presumption &c. (belief) 484; divination.
conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation; rough guess, shot;
conjecturality; surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion.
inkling, suggestion, hint; bare supposition, vague supposition, loose
supposition, loose suggestion.
association of ideas.
conceit.
V. suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize;
presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess,
speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted.
put forth; propound, propose; start, put a case, submit, move, make a
motion; hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put
forward conjecture.
allude to, suggest, hint, put it into one's head.
suggest itself &c. (thought) 451; run in the head &c. (memory) 505;
marvel if, wonder if, wonder whether.
Adj. supposing &c. v.; given, mooted, postulatory; assumed &c. v.;
suppositive, suppositious; gratuitious, speculative, conjectural,
hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative;
suppositional.
suggestive, allusive.
Adv. if, if so be; an; on the suppostion &c. n.;ex hypothesi; in the
case, in the event of; quasi, as if, provided; perhaps &c. (by possibility)
470; for aught one knows.

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#515. Imagination. -- N. imagination; originality; invention; fancy;
inspiration; verve.
warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine
imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination,
wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful
imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy.
"mind's eye"; "such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest].
ideality, idealism; romanticism, utopianism, castle-building.
dreaming; phrensy, frenzy; ecstasy, extasy; calenture &c. (delirium)
503; reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream; somnambulism.
conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, "a fine frenzy"; cloudland,
dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; "thick coming fancies"
[Macbeth]; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery.
conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera;
phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary,
rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear,
nightmare.
flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the
air, chateau en Espagne; Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium,
fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction &c.
(novel) 594; Arabian nights; le pot au lait; dream of Alnashar &c. (hope)
858.
illusion &c. (error) 495; phantom &c. (fallacy of vision) 443; Fata
Morgana &c. (ignis fatuus) 423; vapor &c. (cloud) 353; stretch of the
imagination &c. (exaggeration) 549; mythogenesis.
idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus; romancer, dreamer;
somnambulist; rhapsodist &c. (fanatic) 504; castle-buildier, fanciful
projector.
V. imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of; "give
to airy nothing a local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's Dream].
create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate; improvise, strike
out something new.
set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's invention;
rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains; excogitate.
give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give
fancy; indulge in reverie.
conjure up a vision; fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture-
oneself, figure to oneself; vorstellen.
float in the mind; suggest itself &c. (thought) 451.
Adj. imagined &c. v.; ben trovato; air drawn, airbuilt.
imagining &cv. v, imaginative; original, inventive, creative, fertile.
romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic,
Utopian, Quixotic.
ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus; unsubsantial &c. 4; illusory
&c. (fallacious) 495.
fabulous, legendary; mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary,
visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastical; whimsical; fairy, fairy-
like; gestic.
Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; aegri somnia
vana; dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum [Latin] [Horace]; "fancy
light from fancy caught" [Tennyson]; "imagination rules the world"
[Napoleon]; l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas[French];
musaeo contingens cuncta lepore [Latin] [Lucretius]; tous songes sont
mensonges[French]; Wahrheil und Dichtung[German].


DIVISION (II) COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS

SECTION I. NATURE OF IDEAS COMMUNICATED.

#516. [Idea to be conveyed.] Meaning. [Thing signified.] -- N.
meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport;
force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.
gist, essence, spirit &c.5.
matter; subject, subject matter; argument, text, sum and substance.
genera meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial
meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning,
unstrained meaning, true &c. (exact) 494 meaning, honest &c. 543 meaning,
prima facie &c. (manifest) 525 meaning.
literally; after acceptation.
synonym; implication, allusion &c. (latency) 526; suggestion &c.
(information) 527; figure of speech &c. 521; acceptation &c.
(interpretation) 522.
V. mean, signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply,
breathe, idicate, bespeak, bear a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point
to, allude to; drive at; involve &c. (latency) 526; declare &c. (affirm)
535.
understand by &c. (interpret) 522.
Adj. meaning &c. v.; expressive, suggestive, allusive; significant,
significative, significatory; pithy; full of meaning, pregnant with
meaning.
declaratory &c. 535; intelligible &c. 518; literal; synonymous;
tantamount &c. (equivalent) 27; implied &c. (latent) 526; explicit &c. 525.
Adv. to that effect; that is to say &c. (being interpreted) 522.

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#517. [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness. -- N. unmeaningness &c.
adj.; scrabble.
empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil; "a tale told by an
idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"; "sounding brass and a
tinkling cymbal."
nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus,
fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble,
baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle;
rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge,
trash; poppy-cock [U.S.]; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish,
moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity &c. 497; vagueness &c.
(unintelligibility) 519.
V. mean nothing; be unmeaning &c. adj.; twaddle, quibble, scrabble.
Adj. unmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensical; void of sense &c.
516.
inexpressive, unexpressive; vacant; not significant &c. 516;
insignificant.
trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.
unmeant, not expressed; tacit &c. (latent) 526.
inexpressile, undefinable, incommunicable.

#518. Intelligibility. -- N. intelligibility; clearness, explicitness
&c. adj.; lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain
speaking &c. (manifestation) 525; precision &c. 494; synetoisy/gr>; a word to the wise.
V. be intelligible &c. adj.; speak for itself, speak volumes; tell its
own tale, lie on the surface.
render intelligible &c. adj.; popularize, simplify, clear up;
elucidate &c. (explain) 522.
understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect,
master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter
into the ideas of; come to an understanding.
Adj. intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid;
perspicuous, transpicuous; luminous, transparent.
easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible
to the meanest capacity, popularized.
plain, distinct, explicit; positive; definite &c. (precise) 494.
graphic; expressive &c. (meaning) 516; illustrative &c. (explanatory)
522.
unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable &c. (manifest) 525; unconfused;
ligible, recognizable; obvious &c. 525.
Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English.
Phr. he that runs may read &c. (manifest) 525.


#519. Unintelligibility.-- N. unintelligibility; incomprehensibility,
imperspicuity; inconceivableness, vagueness &c. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity
&c. 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty &c. 475; perplexity &c. (confusion)
59; spinosity; obscurum per obscurius; mystification &c. (concealment) 528;
latency &c. 526; transcendentalism.
paradox; riddle, enigma, puzzle &c. (secret) 533; diagnus vindice
nodus; sealed book; steganography, freemasonry.
pons asinorum, asses' bridge; high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew; jargon &c.
(unmeaning) 517.
V. be unintelligible &c. adj.; require explanation &c. 522; have a
doubtful meaning, pass comprehension.
render unintelligible &c. adj.; conceal &c 528; darken &c. 421;
confuse &c. (derange) 61; perplex &c. (bewilder)
475.
not understand &c. 518; lose, lose the clue; miss; not know what to
make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up; not be able to account
for, not be able to make either head or tail of; be at sea &c. (uncertain)
475; wonder &c. 870; see through a glass darkly &c. (ignorance) 491.
not understand one another; play at cross purposes &c. (misinterpret)
523.
Adj. unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable,
unknowlable, unfathomable; incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable;
inapprehensible, incomprehensible; insolvable, insoluble; impenetrable.
illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical; enigmatic,
enigmatical, puzzling (secret) 533; indecipherable.
obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim,
nebulous, shrouded in mystery; undiscernible &c. (invisible) 447; misty &c.
(opaque) 426; hidden &c 528; latent &c 526.
indefinite &c. (indistinct) 447; perplexed &c. (confused) 59;
undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous; mysterious; mystic, mystical;
acroamatic, acroamatical; metemphirical; transcendental; occult, recondite,
abstruse, crabbed.
inconceivable, inconceptible; searchless; above comprehension, beyond
comprehension, past comprehension; beyond one's depth; unconceived.
inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.

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#520. [Having a double sense] Equivocalness.-- N. equivocalness &c
adj.; double meaning &c. 516; ambiguity, double entente, double entendre,
pun, paragram, calembour, quibble, equivoque, anagram; conundrum &c
(riddle) 533; word play &c. (wit) 842; homonym, homonymy; amphiboly,
amphibology; ambilogy, ambiloquy|.
Sphinx, Delphic oracle.
equivocation &c. (duplicity) 544; white lie, mental reservation &c.
(concealment) 528; paltering.
V. be -equivocal &c. adj.; have two meanings &c. 516; equivocate &c.
(alter) 544.
Adj. equivocal, ambiguous, amphibolous, homonymous; double-tongued &c.
(lying) 544; enigmatical, indeterminate.
Phr. on the one hand, on the other hand.

#521. Metaphor.-- N. figure of speech; facon de parler [French], way
of speaking, colloquialism.
phrase &c. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis;
metonymy, synecdoche; autonomasia|!, irony, figurativeness &c. adj.; image,
imagry; metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia,
allegory, apologue, parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application.
V. employ -metaphor &c. n.; personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow
forth, apply, allude to.
Adj. metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious,
parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical; ironical; colloquial;
tropical.
Adv. so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself; as it were.
Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Horace].

#522. Interpretation. -- N. interpretation, definition; explanation,
explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple
interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning &c. 516.
translation; rendering, rendition; redition; literal translation, free
translation; key; secret; clew &c. (indication) 550; clavis, crib, pony
[U.S.].
exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary;
inference &c. (deduction) 480; illustration, exemplification; gloss,
annotation, scholium, note; elucidation, dilucidation|; eclaircissement,
mot d'enigme.
symptomatology, semeiology; metoposcopy, physiognomy; paleography &c.
(philology) 560; oneirology
acception, acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection,
construction, version.
equivalent, equivalent meaning &c. 516; synonym; para-phrase,
metaphrase; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary &c. 562; polyglot.
V. interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into,
turn into; transfuse the sense of.
find out &c. 480a the meaning &c. 516 of; read; spell out, make out;
decipher, unravel, disentangle; find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve;
read between the lines.
account for; find the cause, tell the cause &c. 153 of;
throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light
upon; clear up, elucidate.
illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate;
popularize &c. (render intelligible) 518.
take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive
in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense; understand by, put a
construction on, be given to understand.
Adj. explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical;
construable.
polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic; consignificative,
synonymous; equivalent &c. 27.
Adv. in explanation &c. n.; that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit,
namely, in other words.
literally, strictly speaking; in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer
words, in plainer English; more simply.

#523. Misinterpretation. -- N. misinterpretation, misapprehension,
misunderstanding, misacceptation|, misconstruction, misapplication;
catachresis; eisegesis; cross-reading, cross-purposes; mistake &c. 495.
misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration &c. 549; false coloring,
false construction; abuse of terms; parody, travesty; falsification &c.
(lying) 544.
V. misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell,
mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply; mistake &c. 495.
misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble &c. (falsify)
544; distort, detort|; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain
the sense, stretch the menaing, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest
the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false
construction on; give a false coloring.
be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes.
Adj. misinterpreted &c. v.; untranslated, untranslatable.

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