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Definition of Misdividing
1. misdivide [v] - See also: misdivide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdividing
Literary usage of Misdividing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments: A Translation of the First by Guillaume Durand (1906)
"... and ministers of the Church, either invoking God with barbarisms and solecisms,
or not understanding and misdividing the words which they pronounce. ..."
2. English Metrists in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Being a Sketch by Thomas Stewart Omond (1907)
"... triple-time ' dactyl' of English prosody, but strangely finding the former
in " Hame came my | gude- man, and | . . ." (ibid.), and misdividing Jean ..."
3. Oliver Optic's Magazine by Oliver Optic (1875)
"... western part of New York State, sends a knight's tour; but one can only be
made from an eight-line verse, long metre, without misdividing the syllable. ..."
4. Contributions to the Study of Elliptical Words in Modern English by Karl Sundén (1904)
"The adjective that in MnE. has the form sulky, appeared in ME. as sulken.
From misdividing the substantival derivative sulken-ness as ..."
5. The Panchatantra: A Collection of Ancient Hindu Tales in the Recension by Pūrṇabhadrasūri, Johannes Hertel (1908)
"By misdividing at the seventh syllable, and taking the T for the mark of
punctuation | , Hindu MSS. and the Calcutta text read ..."
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