misknow

Misknow, mis-nō′, v.t. to misapprehend.—n.

Byron did not misknow himself, nor misapprehend the most marked turn of his own character when he wrote the lines— I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the universe and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

It would be greatly to misknow Gibbon to suppose that his studies at Lausanne were restricted to the learned languages.

He also scolds Bacon for being afraid that Buckingham's height of fortune might make him "misknow himself."

Whatever real excellence he might misknow, you had but to let it stand before him, soliciting new examination from him: none surer than he to recognize it at last, and to pay it all his dues, with the arrears and interest on them.