"misintelligible" meaning in English

See misintelligible in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more misintelligible [comparative], most misintelligible [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} misintelligible (comparative more misintelligible, superlative most misintelligible)
  1. (archaic) Liable to be misunderstood. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-misintelligible-en-adj-~ngDNpSw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on the Works of Robert Robinson”, in Literary Remains",
          "text": "To the same man I would give the Bible, though a very large part would be worse than unintelligible, for it would be misintelligible […]",
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          "text": "1847-1848, Thomas De Quincey, \"Protestantism\", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine\n[…] already in Scotland it is a barbarism transplanted from the filthy vocabulary of attorneys, locally called writers; secondly, because in England it is not even intelligible, and, what is worse still, sure to be misintelligible.",
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