单词 | miscasting |
释义 | miscastingn.ΚΠ 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. (1557) 130/2 Some sely woman seking saint Sythe when she seghyth for miscasting of her kayes. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [noun] > in calculation misreckoning1540 miscasting1542 miscast1599 miscompute1646 miscounting1655 miscomputation1702 miscalculation1720 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 21 For misrecytall or nonrecytall of Leases..or for lacke of the certentie myscasting rating or setting foorthe of the yerelie values..of the Premisses. 1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. iii. i. 149 When there is a miscasting in the beginning of an account. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. vii. 169 Ballance your accounts, and you will find that by miscasting, you have lost your Principal. 1797 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. Miscasting or Miscomputing. 1887 Daily News 4 Mar. 7/3 A miscasting of the books in one instance was over 3,000l. 3. Bad casting (of metal). ΚΠ 1901 Notes & Queries 23 Nov. 430/2 The difficulty arises from the bell-founder's miscasting. 4. Originally Theatre. The allotting to an actor of an unsuitable part. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > [noun] > (types of) casting cast1631 casting1814 miscasting1926 type-casting1927 stunt casting1949 typing1960 1926 Spectator 25 Sept. 470/2 In a long list of characters there is not one case of miscasting. 1927 Observer 26 Sept. 13/4 Those instances of what I thought was miscasting have made me long to try my hand at casting a play. 1946 Weekly Rev. 20 June 156/1 The extraordinary mis-casting of the Elder who was made up to look like an emaciated crook suffering from T.B. 1971 Daily Tel. 24 Nov. 10/4 Act Four [of ‘Swan Lake’] suffered..from the miscasting of Miss Mason. 1993 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 54 62 The image of Smith as rebellious iconoclast is a clear case of historical miscasting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1529 |
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