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Definition of Miscomputations
1. miscomputation [n] - See also: miscomputation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miscomputations
Literary usage of Miscomputations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1822)
"That remedy, however, proved much too weak, and was far from operating extensively
enough to correct the great miscomputations of time ; as we have observed ..."
2. Commentaries on the History, Constitution, and Chartered Franchises of the by George Norton (1829)
"The miscomputations on this subject are truly astonishing. Sir Robert Cotton
asserts, that in the reign of Elizabeth, London contained 800000 souls f ..."
3. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1857)
"That remedy, however, proved much too weak, and was far from operating extensively
enough, to correct the great miscomputations of time; as we have observed ..."
4. The Advancement of Learning, Book I by Francis Bacon, Albert Stanburrough Cook (1904)
"That remedy, however, proved much too weak, and was far from operating extensively
enough to correct the great miscomputations of time, as we have observed ..."
5. The Advancement of Learning, Book I by Francis Bacon (1904)
"That remedy, however, proved much too weak, and was far from operating extensively
enough to correct the great miscomputations of time, as we have observed ..."
6. Plutarch: The Lives by Plutarch (1832)
"... the great miscomputations of time; as we have observed in that prince's life.
Cii-siir having proposed the question to the most able philosophers and ..."
7. Plutarch's Lives of Romulus, Lycurgus, Solon, Pericles, Cato, Pompey by Plutarch, William Langhorne (1889)
"That remedy, however, proved much too weak, and was far from operating extensively
enough, to correct the great miscomputations of time; as we have observed ..."
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