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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. A contraction of mistaken.

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  • “This combination dagger, screwdriver, nail file, corkscrew and a tool for removing stones from horse's hooves hath mista'en -- for, lo, his house is empty on the back of Montague, -- And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom!”

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  • “William Farren, here, was touching on that subject, if I'm not mista'en. ”

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

  • “Ay," said John, "I'm mista'en if this is no a day that'll be heard tell o 'yet;" and they mounted to their respective places and started.”

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876

  • “Aw'll tell thee what, Mary Ann -- there's a deal o' mak 'up i' that yure (hair), or aw'm mista'en. ”

    Lancashire Idylls (1898)

  • “Nowe, lad -- thaa'rt -- mista'en -- Whittam's hens hesn't bin i' th 'garden sin' thaa towd him abaat 'em last. ”

    Lancashire Idylls (1898)

  • “If this aren't Mr. Sherrud's dochter, I'm mista'en!”

    Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces

  • “If I'm no mista'en that'll be the end o 'Sandy's Toon”

    My Man Sandy

  • “I might be mista'en – but he like gave a sort of a whistle, and I saw a bit of a smile on his face; and he said, 'Oh, it's all stuff!”

    Agnes Grey

  • “I started siding stuff then, an 'sweeping an' doing; and I expected he'd begin a calling me for my idle ways as Maister Hatfield would a 'done; but I was mista'en: he only bid me good mornin' like, in a quiet dacent way.”

    Agnes Grey

  • “I sit here useless, surrounded by the gratification of all my wishes and all my ambitions; and at times I'm near terrified, for it's as if God had mista'en me for some other woman. ”

    Mushrooms on the Moor

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