Definition of "misgloss"
misgloss
verb
third-person singular simple present misglosses, present participle misglossing, simple past and past participle misglossed
To provide an incorrect translation or synopsis of
Quotations
But the definition is anachronistic and misglosses the citation it was presumably devised to explain.
1981, Catherine Slater, Defeatists and Their Enemies, page 139
In a scheme that involves material possessions in huge quantity and counts on Calchas's thrice-invoked greed (1369, 1377–78, 1399), Criseyde claims that she will convince Calchas that it was his cowardice that caused him to misgloss "goddes text" (1409-11).
1996, Michaela Paasche Grudin, Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse, page 67
noun
plural misglosses
An incorrect translation or synopsis.
Quotations
Recently, this misgloss has led to an impossible interpretation of the Beowulf poet's allusion to "beornas on blancum" [warriors on white horses] (856a) and their racing on "fealwe mearwas" [fallow horses] (865b) in the episode of the Danes and Geats coming back from the mere.
2003, Earl R. Anderson, Folk-taxonomies in Early English, page 152