Misdeem

Origin

From Middle English misdemen, equivalent to - + deem. Cognate with Icelandic misdæma ("to misjudge").

Full definition of misdeem

Verb

1. To misjudge, to deem wrongly.
• 1500s, Edmund Spenser, sonnet:The doubt which ye misdeem, fair love, is vain,
  That fondly fear to lose your liberty;
  ...
• 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxxviii:Nor say I this for that I aught misdeem
• That Egypt's promis'd succors fail us might.