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Webster 1913 Edition

Miscorrect

Misˊcor-rect′

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Verb.
T.
To fail or err in attempting to correct.
“Scaliger miscorrects his author.”
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Miscorrect

MISCORRECT'

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Verb.
T.
To correct erroneously; to mistake in attempting to correct another.
He passed the first seven years of his life at Mantua, not seventeen, as Scaliger miscorrects his author.

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