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Definition of Misdescribing
1. misdescribe [v] - See also: misdescribe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdescribing
Literary usage of Misdescribing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Evidence: And Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie, Theron Metcalf (1826)
"... the variance was held to be fatal, both in misdescribing the power as general
when it was special, ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1896)
"After the acceptance by grantees of a deed of correction from their grantor in
lieu of a prior deed from him, misdescribing the land intended to be conveyed ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1908)
"... Speke in order to exalt Dr. Kandt, nor any justification for misdescribing
Speke's achievements. AMERICA. THE AMERICAN INDIANS. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"... as being in the county of Radnor instead of Monmouth ; and vice versa
misdescribing the reversionary estate which he had to dispose of, as lying in the ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Robert Philip Tyrwhitt, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1834)
"... misdescribing the Christian name of one of them : Held, that as in an action
on the award the recital of the appointment of the umpire would be ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... Ef , ihi " proper num- misdescribed, ppr. misdescribing. [< mis-1 + dc- 2.
The state of being a miscreant; turpitude. 1™в,ЙА^ )r'/'î-P^i*5 Ap> ..."
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