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Definition of Missorted
1. missort [v] - See also: missort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Missorted
Literary usage of Missorted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Positions by Richard Mulcaster, Robert Hebert Quick (1888)
"... Missorted SEDITIOUS. THAT ALL MAY LEARNE TO WRITE AND READ WITHOUT DAUNGER.
THE GOOD OF CHOICE, AND ILL OF CONFUSION. THE CHILDREN WHICH ARE SET TO ..."
2. U.S. Postal Service: Progress Made in Implementing Automated Letter by Gerald P. Barnes (1998)
"These errors were often letters missorted to the wrong route caused by mechanical
or maintenance problems or necessary changes to computerized sort plans ..."
3. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"... missorted seditious. That all may learne to write and reade without daunger.
The good of choice, the ill of confusion. The children which are set to ..."
4. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1858)
"The judges have held, that a stamper at the post-office, who purloins a letter
for the mere purpose of delivering it as a missorted letter, and so obtaining ..."
5. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1877)
"1064- deliver it as a missorted letter, and 1068, § 6463-6480, the reader will
find thus obtain the postage of it, does not these and kindred offences set ..."
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