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Definition of Misdescribes
1. misdescribe [v] - See also: misdescribe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdescribes
Literary usage of Misdescribes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of New York Statutes and Reports: From the Earliest Period to the by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott (1864)
"When the notice is sufficient upon its face, the objection being that it misdescribes
the note, the question whether the indorser was misled is a question ..."
2. The Statutes, Rules of Court, and General Orders Relating to the Practice by George Osborne Morgan, Edward Albert Wurtzburg, Great Britain Court of Appeal (1885)
"(2) When a plaintiff misdescribes his residence, or is keeping out of the ...
and see as misdescribes to misdescription, the plaintiff having changed his ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1839)
"... on the ground that the writ omits one Christian name, and misdescribes another,
if the plaintiff have used due diligence in inquiring for the proper ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"Not only does he, as in the last sentence, negatively misdescribe the character
of this Energy, but he positively misdescribes it. ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"What Is expressly said in the memorandum itself of the deed misdescribes the deed
in the important particular of saying that the grantor therein was named ..."
6. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1829)
"... possible honour to dine with this man, and she is made to blush for his
friendship, because he mispronounces some words and misdescribes somo dishes ! ..."
7. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"In that sentence Sir John well describes the position, but misdescribes its
defenders. The sailors, and the 5000 ' reserve,' or ' militiamen,' at that time ..."
8. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"It misdescribes the case—it falls short of it—it overshoots it.—It violates
justice, by punishing, as for delinquency, without proof. ..."
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