Miscollect
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To make errors in the process of collecting.
"He is compelled to use the greatest care over it that he does not miscollect, fail to collect, or improperly or in any other way discharge his duty."
- 2 To misremember. archaic
"I have not been so punctual in describing Earthquakes, because l love not (whatsoever the Reader may miscollect) I delight not in the Raven-Notes that do befal Recitements at large of those Subjects which I am engaged to treat of; for Who desiresr to be reckoned a baleful inauspicious Bird?"
Example
More examples"He is compelled to use the greatest care over it that he does not miscollect, fail to collect, or improperly or in any other way discharge his duty."
Etymology
From mis- + collect.
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