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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1678
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Misconstructing, vbl. n. Misrepresenting. — 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i. i. § iv. (1678) 11.
The law … has punisht the actual misconstructing or depraving 1678 Ib. 12.
If the misconstructing the government be a great guilt [etc.]
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