miscounsel

English

Etymology

From Middle English miscounceilen, miscounselen, equivalent to mis- +‎ counsel. Possibly formed on the model of Old French mesconceillier.

Verb

miscounsel (third-person singular simple present miscounsels, present participle miscounselling or miscounseling, simple past and past participle miscounselled or miscounseled)

1. (transitive) To counsel or advise wrongly.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “miscounsel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)