单词 | misdate |
释义 | misdaten. Now rare. The act or an instance of misdating; (the attribution of) a wrong date. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > assignment to a wrong time or date > a wrong date antedate?1456 post-date1611 misdate1701 1701 F. Atterbury Additions to 1st Ed. Rights Eng. Convocation 18 Where he sets Sanders's Misdate of it right, he closes his Remark with this Censure,..that Sanders never look'd for any Verification of what he wrote. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. v. 642 They abound in small errors, in misdates, mistakes. 1873 Jesuits in Conflict i. 70 There appears to be some misdate in this, or in the letter of Young next mentioned. 1994 Nat. Hist. Apr. 8/1 But Dennis's misdate of Jesus counts as a mere peccadillo compared with consequences of his second bad decision. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). misdatev. transitive. To assign or affix a wrong date to; to date wrongly. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > arrange chronologically [verb (transitive)] > assign to a certain date > to a wrong, later, or earlier date misdate1577 antedate1609 to pull back1610 redate1611 transtime1647 reduce1714 anachronize1831 predate1854 down-date1949 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 76/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I If he misdate, he is named a falsyfyer. a1626 F. Bacon Charge against Earl of Somerset in Baconiana (1679) 31 That you did deface,..and misdate all Writings that might give light to the Impoisonment. 1671 Rec. Colony Rhode Island (1857) II. 422 Why and how the letter was soe long a cominge..wee cannot but wonder; save as wee may suppose it was mis~dated. 1683 R. Dixon Canidia iii. xvi. 128 Shall..the misdating a Minute of Time, Be counted an Incorrigible Crime? 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 289 This Author seems to have misdated those occurrences. 1816 tr. V. J. E. de Jouy Paris Chit-chat III. 144 His card of invitation was accidentally mis~dated, and he did not arrive till the day after the feast. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. vi. 606 Trusting to memory alone, she misdates, mistakes, misplaces. 1892 Times 23 Jan. 13/6 The practice of mis-dating newspapers and other periodical publications. 1925 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 39 465 The inclusion of mills undated in the McLane Report, and of mills misdated by their reorganization..would raise the figures. 1960 N. Pevsner Pioneers Mod. Design (rev. ed.) vii. 186 A detail photograph of several rows of these horizontal windows..would no doubt be misdated by nearly everybody. 1991 D. Davie Stud. Ezra Pound (BNC) 227 Something that Pound, misdating the event 1908, recalled in the postscript to a letter. Derivatives misˈdated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [adjective] > assigned to a date > assigned to a wrong or different date antedated1573 post-dateda1631 anachronical1731 misdated1743 anachronic1754 foretimed1832 backdated1858 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 46 In hoary Youth Methusalem's may die, O how misdated on their flattering Tombs? 1892 Times 23 Jan. 13/6 Mis-dated newspapers. 1995 Daily Tel. 25 Jan. 17/5 The exhibition is marred by a number of questionable or possibly misdated works. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1701v.1577 |
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