misguide
verbEtymology From mis- + guide.
1
To guide poorly or incorrectly; to lead astray or into error.
- On the whole it were better to misguide a child in knowledge, which it can remedy later, than to mistone it in feeling, for which there is no remedy. A jarring note implanted in its nature might spoil the music of its life […]1895, Henry Maudsley, The Pathology of Mind, page 541:
- 1988, Michael Weikath, "Keeper of the Seven Keys", Helloween, Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II. Will o' the wisps / Misguiding your path / You can't throw a curse / Without takin' their wrath
- Derived terms
- misguider, misguidingly