Examples of mistook

• However, they mistook a limited portion of the juridical resources of each community to be the entire, immutable code.

• Some mistook the word for holiday, fellowship or membership.

• If a physician mistook a syphilitic chancre for a smallpox pustule, he might extract material that, when injected into a patient, would infect him with the deadly venereal disease.

• First, males sometimes apparently mistook newly-emerging males for females and would attempt copulation with the just-emerged male, who would show his refusal by kicking at the male behind him.

• They mistook a non-person for a person.

• In this they mistook their king.

• He also mistook my noble friend's name in a letter that he very kindly wrote to me.

• He would be making a major miscalculation if he mistook our reluctance to use force for a lack of determination to use it if necessary.