misderive
verbEtymology From mis- + derive.
1
To derive erroneously.
2
Obsolete To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect.
- […] this practice of impropriation, which was first set on foot by unjust and sacrilegious bulls from Rome, is justly offensive both to God and good men; as misderiving the well-meant devotions of charitable and pious souls into a wrong channel.1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:
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