Mis-cenning

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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mis-cenning

f. A wrong declaration (II. ), a shifting of the ground of an action after it has come into court; the fine for such variation, the right to accept such fines (often the subject of grant by the king) :-- Ice kíðe ðat ice habbe geunnen . . . miskenninge, C. D. iv. 213, 11: 215, 7, and often, [v. N. E. D. mis-kenning.] mis-cenning

Related words: cennan ;