单词 | miswrite |
释义 | miswritev. transitive. To write or copy out incorrectly or by mistake. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > manner of writing > [verb (intransitive)] > errors miswriteOE the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > abuse language [verb (transitive)] > in written mode miswriteOE misprinta1513 mismark1533 OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 294 Barbarismvs, þæt is anes wordes gewemmednyss, gif hit byð miswriten oððe miscweden of þam rihtan cræfte. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 1795 So prey I God that non myswrite the [sc. litel bok], Ne the mysmetre. 1533 T. More Apol. vii, in Wks. (1557) 858/2 These wordes seme to be miswritten, either in the principall booke, or in the copy. 1596 J. Harington Metamorph. Aiax Prol. Sig. B4v The yonger men..termed the place age akes: which agrees fully in pronunciation, though it may be since, some ill orthographers haue miswritten it. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. xxii. §6. 546 Whether it were so that Iosephus did omit, or else that he did mis-write, some number of the yeares. 1677 J. Wallis Let. 8 Oct. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 608 At your note K, I desire you to consider if there be not somewhat miswritten. 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. i. 9 And substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. 1855 C. Kingsley Sir W. Raleigh in N. Brit. Rev. 23 22 That the passage..is either misquoted, or miswritten by Raleigh himself, we cannot doubt. 1899 C. Plummer Two Saxon Chrons. Parallel II. p. xxxii 1130 (miswritten 1080, mlxxx having been substituted for mcxxx). 1969 Computers & Humanities 4 69 Once a person has miswritten the zip, the computer just misdirects the mail. 1990 Amer. Speech 65 327 It would be similar to a drafter miswriting, In an hour that has 60 minutes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.OE |
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