misconceiving

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of misconceive

adj

1. Having false ideas; misleading.

   “through the helpe of his faire hornes on hight, / And misty dampe of misconceiuing night, / And eke through likenesse of his gotish beard, / He did the better counterfeite aright [...].”